To 40 More Years
On Toronto’s busy Queen Street East, a small store with a bright yellow banner stands out among the high-rise buildings. Hundreds of people pass by it every day – those who choose to open its doors, do so with a certain gleam in their eyes. The store itself looks like it has been there for a while, but more importantly it looks like it belongs.
Views from Above
The Collab Project
“You see that crane behind you?” Simons said. “I climbed that last week.”
When Jordan Simons isn’t in his high school classroom he’s likely on top of a building or crane in Toronto. “I started climbing schools and exploring abandoned places in my neighbourhood when I was in grade 6,” Simons says.
Josh Mankz, 23, a Toronto-based photographer, remembers collaborating with Samantha Kim Dean, a model and photographer. Mankz and Dean were on a parking garage near Church Street and The Esplanade on the sixth-floor roof waiting for an hour for the sun to set.
Making Connections on Social Media
Photographer Justin Boruta sees this on an everyday basis. Seeing people in Toronto with big DSLRs in their hands, he believes that’s where a problem lies. Becoming a well-known photographer in Toronto is not as easy as it looks.
“It’s hard to grow a crowd in a city that’s super saturated with photographers, so it’s hard to stand out from them,” Boruta says.