Recently, I came across Garance Doré’s blog post and photograph of Marion Cotillard that he took at the Cannes Film Festival. 

I really loved the way he encapsulated the experience of meeting her and photographing her, surrounded by other paparazzo and her entourage. 

It’s annoying to be here, photographing her, like everybody else. It’s annoying to find her beautiful, like everybody else. To love her hair, like everybody else. To leave when I have a picture I like and feel way too happy about it. About having had my little piece of Marion.

Pffffffff, really, celebrities make people stupid.

Celebrity is a very strange thing, and beauty is even stranger. 

Read the rest of his post here. 

In about a month’s time I will be participating in the Lovely Ladies’ Business Fair at the City of Ottawa Archives in Nepean. I will be sharing this event with some wonderful colleagues, including Jennifer Stewart, Magida El-Kassis, and Chayle Cook, who I photographed several months ago modeling some of her handmade jewelry. 

Read an interview with Chayle here and come out to see all of our work on June 23 & 24! I will be posting more information about the event soon.

for those of you on facebook, I now have a facebook page for my photography. click here or the image above (one of the portraits from my Strength in Disorder series) to get to my page! 

thanks for your support :)

Congratulations to Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs for winning the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award. Looking forward to his sure-to-be incredible show at the Contact Photography Festival next year and upcoming publication that goes along with the prize.

If you have not yet seen it, his show Identification at the National Gallery is beautiful and inspiring. Go see it!

Super excited to announce that I have been featured in the May issue of Ottawa Woman magazine, both in print and online! Check out the great article by Claudia Gutierrez about my work, La Petite Mort Gallery, and the state of photography in Ottawa.

Claudia discusses the series 13 - 18 in her article; you can see the work on my website.

the Ottawa Citizen’s Big Beat blog featured LATITUDE yesterday. Check out the article here!

For those who haven’t seen it, you still have time; the show is on until May 30th at the Alliance Française Ottawa at 352 MacLaren street. Don’t forget to sign the guestbook if you stop by!   

image by the lovely Jen Stewart.

Super excited for the new show opening at the National Gallery: Arnaud Maggs’ Identification.

Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs has often been described as an aesthete. Through his photographs he gives us the opportunity to look again at our surroundings to see the unusual beauty in the commonplace – in the shapes of people’s heads, the markings of time in old books and paper ephemera, as well as the different typography we encounter in our everyday lives.

Arnaud Maggs: Identification is a survey exhibition that follows the senior artist’s production over four decades. Focusing on seminal and recent works, it showcases the artist’s various working strategies and subject matter. The show features his early portrait series, his monumental photographic installations of found historical ephemera, the typography used in signage and numbering systems, as well as pieces that centre on rare books, including his own Scrapbook (2009), which is filled with the inspiring items Maggs collected while working as a graphic designer. Each work on display records in some way the people, places and lived experiences that have marked him – they can be seen as portraits of the artist.

check out more info about the show here.