Like most Canadians I harbour a special hate for Toronto’s Peason Airport (YYZ). It’s a reminder of everything wrong with Canada’s airline system: dull, ugly, designed for the convenience airlines rather than passengers. The airport is often a perfunctory midway point, a No Man’s Land between where you were and where you are going marked [...]

Kim Usan has been photographing strangers in Ottawa for a bit over a year now. I had never met Kim—or her husband & lighting assistant D’arcy—until our Saturday shoot at the GCTC Theatre in Hintonburg so I suppose I qualify well enough as her 54th stranger. As an avid portrait photographer myself it always feels [...]