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When the Eiffel Tower was erected, Walter Benjamin wrote about the changing perspective that machines brought to the minds of the people of Paris. Today, consumer drones can carry this shifting perspective. I have a lifelong obsession with ordinary moments filled with beauty. These photographs were taken over one year as the seasons passed and I saw familiar places in a new way from above.

About Sandy Nicholson

Sandy Nicholson captures life’s moods and moments. His portfolio encompasses still photography and moving images, personal and commercial commissions. Born and raised in Australia, and now based in Canada, Sandy started telling stories through photographs in the 1990’s while shooting essays for Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Australian magazines. Not long after, he embarked on a career making images for local and international ad agencies and designers as well as his self-commissioned projects. Sandy has exhibited his photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the World Expo, Lisbon, Fotofeis in Scotland and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sydney. He has shown his solo exhibitions: Lifts, Suburban Fetish, and 2nd, in Australia, the UK, Canada and Croatia. Sandy has won numerous awards for photographic excellence including a World Press Photo, Applied Arts Award, Advertising and Directors Club of Canada Award, and many others.

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bulthaup Toronto and Luvere Studio present “Light Cage Duo” as part of the annual DesignTO Festival. Luvere Studio created the two-part installation for kitchen and dining use, the third in a series of installations previously presented at Wanted Design Manhattan 2018 and Vancouver IDS 2018.

Light Cage Duo is a living lighting installation with live plants growing from the confines of a 4’ x 4’ structure of illuminated bars that is suspended from the ceiling above. The plants continue to grow despite their capture in a “prison of light”, eventually engulfing and blackening out their source of confine and energy. As the plants endure and thrive, the installation becomes a symbol of hope for the environment and our planet.

About Luvere Studio

Luvere Studio is a collaborative and innovative design duo working out of NY and Toronto, designing products and installations that are rooted in all things green. Their ethos is to bring a greater awareness to plants, nature and the living environment. Luvere Studio were the winners of Wanted Design Manhattan Launchpad 2017 for lighting.
www.luverestudio.com

Workman’s Creek Landscapes | Artist Statement
Workman’s Creek Landscapes is a collection of abstract oil paintings inspired by my interest in country life. Recently moving my family from Toronto to the peaceful, rural town of Meaford, Ontario, ignited me with a new appreciation and passion for nature and a minimalist lifestyle that I aim to reflect in my work. With an abstract painting style, I’m visualizing landscapes through bold colours and compositions. I like to mix oil paints, wax, fire and burnt plywood, so that each piece is an experiment in colour, texture and material.

In addition, I sometimes burn the wood canvases. Not only is burning an important step in forest rejuvenation and ecology, it also reminds me to keep my work fresh and evolving. I am a landscape designer by trade, but painting frees me to look at landscapes from a new perspective, which is constantly re-igniting my love for nature, and inspiring me to continue doing what I love.

About Joel Loblaw

Joel Loblaw is a Landscape Designer and painter who divides his time between Toronto and Meaford, Ontario.
His early paintings were in the classic Canadian landscape tradition, but his style quickly evolved into abstracted landscapes. He hopes that his art will uplift and transport the viewer into the mindset of nature.

Joel’s paintings reflect his love for colour and composition and feature a variety of materials and textures such as oil paint, burnt plywood and encaustic. His work has been featured in numerous Toronto solo exhibitions.

@joelloblaw
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The photographs presented here are part of an ongoing photographic project at Habitat 67, the experimental housing project in Montreal, Canada, designed by architect Moshe Safdie for the 1967 World Exposition.

I’ve been thinking about layers and traces of life left on architecture over time. I’ve also been considering the way Habitat 67 itself has aged, how it’s used, inhabited and experienced, and how public and private space at the complex has been occupied and adapted by residents.
On a wider note, the photographs are a response to the daily dose of digital imagery of architecture on social media and the web. Mainstream photography of architecture has largely withdrawn from communicating the experience of buildings and spaces, and specific moments spent in places. The line between digital render and photograph has also become increasingly blurred.
Photography has always been central to our understanding of and engagement with architecture. Is it still possible to photograph the places where we live and work, the spaces around us, thoughtfully and usefully?
And if so, how do we do that?

About James Brittain

James Brittain is an international photographer based in Montreal whose work focuses on architecture and the built environment. He studied history of art at the University of Leeds in the UK, before going on to study photography at the London College of Printing in London, from where he graduated with distinction. Brittain has spent the past 16 years working on commissions in the field of architecture. He uses his commissioned work to support his own photographic practice, exploring ideas around human experience of the built environment. His work is regularly published in books, magazines and the international press. He also gives talks and writes about contemporary photography and architecture. He has been exhibited at the Architectural Association in London, UK, and at the School of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal.

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