So I’ve been thinking about the ideas around the ephemeral and the nature of photographing as a way to preserve the moment and character of something, which is what a photograph is (duh) but connected to nostalgia and what is means to photograph for archival purposes especially documenting cityscapes. My mom passed in march of 2021 and looking at photos of her spirals me into a sort of panic that keeps me up all night with the compulsion to take pictures of things before they’re gone. Toronto is changing and condos are being built everywhere and places that have a history are being destroyed and new developers are taking over. This isn’t my motivation to photograph old industrial buildings or places but to archive things and find beauty in the mundane forgotten parts of the city. I had planned to shoot exclusively on medium format black and white film but my Yashica 124G is broken and I’m just working through ideas and photographing on my digital Fujifilm XT-3, but here are the last photos shot on Kodak Tri-X before my medium format camera shat the bed.
