Here are a few outtakes from my shoot with Daniel Radcliffe for The Grid last week. Click here to read the interview.
Finger Cooking
We are thrilled to be a part of Boston Pizza's cool new look.Check it out.
Food Styling: Noah Witenoff Prop Styling: Madeleine Johari
Agency: Taxi
Evidence
If you're passing through Minden, Ontario, my work is up at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery until February 25.The curator, Laurie Carmount, did a beautiful job of putting this together. Please drop in if you're in that neck of the woods.
Evidence January 5, 2012 - Feburary 25, 2012 Opening Reception Saturday, January 14 at 1pm
Ryan Szulc and Darren Lum curated by Laurie Carmount
Society often holds photography to be undeniable documentation. It embodies everything and presents back to us unavoidable realities. Evidence is a group photography exhibition with Ryan Szulc and Darren Lum. The exhibition examines the role photography plays in society today. Is the ultimate role of photography to document? Does society hold it as the true witness of our time? How much do we trust it? If it has become abused by technology is it just ‘eye-candy’? We spend a huge amount of money and time living vicariously through events portrayed in a sensationalistic manner which, really, are none of our business. Yet we spend little time and give little consideration to images that are evidence of our interaction with land that could lead to serious ramifications. This exhibition moves from shocking to stark realities that pulls the viewer through a myriad of emotions. Szulc’s work records how humans have marked the land.
Ryan Szulc: A common thread in my photographs is the concept of nature reclaiming its space and the inevitable, and often haunting, remnants of human abandonment. The main intent with this series of work is to create a meditation on the effect of human existence on our landscape and to gain insight into the ‘dynamic interrelation’. Several of the images portray obvious human objects imposing on the landscape, others are seemingly void of any human trace. However, there is a dark narrative consistent in this series, exploring the relationship between the figures of the image, and the degree to which we perceive them. Yet, while often dark, they maintain an aesthetic appeal that that challenges the typical beauty one associates with landscape photography.
Ryan Szulc is a Toronto based photographer who has been shooting editorial and commercial projects for over 5 years. After graduating from the Humber College photography program, Ryan assisted several photographers before opening his own studio. His work has been featured in Applied Arts, Toronto Life, The Grid, Report on Business, Canadian Living, and Chatelaine among others. Ryan’s work has won several awards and has been featured in numerous group shows.
Darren Lum: With my experience in journalism I've always wondered if it is the media that fuels a need for graphic images or if it is the other way around? For most people what we see and remember are scenes of a graphic nature and compel us to look. I want to explore the public’s desire to ‘see all’, that desire to gaze at someone else’s misfortune versus the morality and right for privacy of the victim.
Darren Cory Lum is a Canadian born photographer of Chinese descent who was raised in the Toronto suburbs and became inspired by photojournalists such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier Bresson. He presently works at the Haliburton County Echo and The Minden Times local newspapers. His work has garnered several provincial and national newspaper awards and has been used in the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and USA Today, London Free Press and wire services such as the Canadian Press. He has more than 10 years of experience working in the field of journalism. Lum has been an instructor at Humber College for first year journalism students. In 2008, Darren collaborated on the animated short, Flipbook. It was produced by Stone by Stone Production and supported by Bravo!Fact. For that project he documented the Muskoka Novel Marathon with more than 12,000 shots. He also completed an intensive semester of instruction in photojournalism at the Danish School of Journalism in Denmark.
Here are few of my pieces that are on display at the gallery:
Back to Baking
Last winter I had the chance to collaborate once again with the always lovely Anna Olson on her new cookbook Back to Baking.This is the third cookbook we have shot together. It's in stores now and it looks fantastic so check it out!
Food Styling: Anna Olson & Lisa Rollo Prop Styling: Madeleine Johari
Happy Holidays
Well it's time to shut it down for holidays. Have fun and see you in the new year! Anti-food styling: Noah Witenoff
Winter Soups
Here is a recent shoot I did for the Globe and Mail with one of my favourite food stylists Ashley Denton.
Canadian Tire
I had the pleasure of working with the fine folks at Taxi on some food photography for Canadian Tire.Here are some of the shots.
Art Director: Julie Nikolic Food Stylists: Claire Stubbs & Ashley Denton Prop Stylist: Oksana Slavutych
Holiday Dinner
I recently shot a story for Toronto Life on Toronto's top caterers doing holiday meals.Here are some of the outtakes.
Nike Vapour Flash Shoot
Here are some shots from our shoot with Blast Radius for Nike to launch their new jacket, the "Nike Vapour Flash", dubbed the brightest jacket on the road, during Nuit Blanche in Toronto.
Harold & Kumar
I had the pleasure of shooting Harold and Kumar a couple weeks ago for The Grid.Here are some of the shots.