I've only visited Canada once, back in 2018, but it was during an important period in my photographic journey. Earlier that year, I had participated in the NYT Portfolio Review and I was in the process of rethinking my approach to documenting cities.

The solemn, sparse, architectural compositions that I had become known for were evolving into fully populated scenes that portrayed the urban environment in a fuller, more complete way. I had started down this path just two months prior to a scheduled trip to Toronto from a conference and it turned out to be an excellent place to build on some of these new concepts I was experimenting with.

I decided to share this work now because we are in a really strange geopolitical moment, where a relationship that was rock solid is under enormous stress for really stupid reasons. My trip to Toronto was fun, people were nice, and it was really interesting to visit a city that was both surprisingly familiar and very foreign at the same time. Definitely top on my list of places to visit again.