CANADA DRY

picked some disposable cameras up on sale
while I lived in Toronto, Canada.
I was feeling quite lonely and didn’t have a steady
job, a metro pass or many friends for a while.
Even thought it felt very inaccessible, I was eager
to get to know the place where I lived and since I
had been very frustrated with my usual approach
to photography and my pro camera, I gave the
disposables a go.
With that little lens, I wondered the streets looking
for people and new places to call my own. I started
a new mapping of my daily reality: people met in the
streets, places and strange encounters.
I start walking everywhere, in every weather
condition, day and night.
I made my own album of the city.
The outcome were surprising, an epiphany.
I loved the cameras and people’s reaction to it:
always coming onto the lens, never scared.
I enjoyed understanding how the camera
functioned and working my way around it to try
achieving something in my mind. I yer cherished the
accidents and mistakes as an integral part of the
work.
I abandoned myself to randomness and the
serendipity of what comes to you without planning.
I learned how to tune myself in the chaos and
discovered a new gaze. The result is a diary of
instinctive snapshots of place I used to think was
just a dry land.