Yes, more image from Toronto. Today, I bring you to the Chinatown.
Chinatown (Chinese: 多倫多華埠) is an ethnic enclave in Downtown Toronto with a high concentration of ethnic Chinese residents and businesses extending along Dundas Street West and Spadina Avenue. First developed in the late 19th century, it is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area
[Wikipedia]
More Toronto Chinatown images on my stock photo site.
A man walks by stalls of vegetables Toronto Chinatown.
A vendor reads a Chinese newspaper behind stalls in Toronto Chinatown
A woman and her daughter look at vegetables on display on a stall installed on the sidewalk on Spadina avenue in Toronto Chinatown.
Mushrooms are on display in stalls in Toronto Chinatown
With eclectic shops, cafes and restaurants, Kensington Market is my preferred spot in Toronto. That’t the first pace I went to shoot in the morning after my first night at the hotel. It’s a distinctive multicultural neighborhood where you can hear probably 50 different languages if you sit on a bench for an hour.
A woman walks in front of a graffiti in Toronto Kensington Market.
Vendors prepares the stalls in front of a fruit market store early in the morning in Toronto Kensington Market.
A vendor looks on her stalls in Toronto Kensington.
The Financial District is a business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, sometime just refered to “Bay Street”, the main artery of the area. It is the centre of Toronto’s financial district and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada’s financial industry just as Wall Street is used in the United States and The City in the United Kingdom.
On a recent trip to the city to add pictures to my archives, getting photos of that area was crucial. So you can find more stock photos of Toronto Financial District on my stock site.
A Bank of Montreal office is seen in Toronto financial district.
A woman talking on her cell phone walks by a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce office in Toronto financial district.
National Bank Financial logo is seen in Toronto financial district
A man on a skateboard rides in front of a the Standard Life Centre in Toronto financial district.
A man talking on his cell phone walks by a CIBC logo in Toronto financial district
CIBC logo is seen on top of their headquarters in Toronto financial district
Yesterday, 4 PM. I am slowly and robotically editing and post producing stock photos I shot in Toronto. Then the call comes. The Gazette wants me at the National Assembly in 30 minutes to get photos of a press conference by Jean Charest. Gathering the camera, getting in the car, making a small detour to get my accreditation… Not supposed to be able to do it on time, but I fly down there and managed to arrive before Charest arrives.
As expected, it was about Tony Tomassi, finally ousted from the Liberal cabinet, after months of pressure following allegation of corruption.
So here is Quebec Premier Jean Charest grimacing, then looking down.
“Can an amateur take a picture as good as a professional? Sure. Can they do it on demand? Can they do it again? Can they do it over and over? Can they do it when a scene isn’t that interesting?”
That’s how Katrin Eismann, chairwoman of the Masters in Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, is quoted in a New-York time article.
When the National Post sent me to photograph Clotaire Rapaille, the French/American market researcher and author, I did not know I would have exactly 89 seconds, according to the IPTC data of my first and last photos.
Now that is was revealed that Rapaille’s biography contains numerous lies and exaggerations and his contract was terminated with Quebec City, the Post used another photo I filled from that day.
Is it a photo I will put in my portfolio? Certainly not. But bringing back a usable picture, not matter what where the circumstances, that’s why my clients hire me.
Clotaire Rapaille, waits for the a session with journalists to begin at the City Hall in Quebec city Thursday March 11, 2010. A French-born American market researcher and author, Rapaille was hired by Quebec City to enhance the city’s image on an international level. Photo by Francis Vachon for National Post.
The huron (Wyandot) language has been dormant for over 150 years, but it hasn’t been forgotten. A course that aims to keep the Huron language and culture alive is given at the Huron-Wendat native reserve of Wendake, just north of Quebec City.
Manon Sioui helps her father Roland Sioui during a game of « Yawingo », a play of word for Bingo, to learn numbers
Numbers and their written correspondence in Huron are projected on assistant teacher Marcel Godbout
Full story on The Gazette Website, including an audio slideshow. My first ever!
