collations
2265 photos, 1 video
For 30 years I've been conducting comparative studies of downtown Toronto commercial and residential structures, documenting the ways in which they shift and change over time. The ever-growing...
collations too
842 photos
gothic cottages
348 photos
Toronto's older residential street6s, in all parts of town, are dotted with these little Gothic cottages, a housing format developed in the mid-19th century. That gable, centered above the front...
garages
2027 photos
Garages ... and more garages ... aren't they lovely?!!! For the most part, these have been photographed in the laneways of Toronto. A basic architectural form, these garages come in an endless...
dead stores
473 photos
In this project, I focus on three types of "dead stores." Type one is a store that is closed temporarily, in transition from one commercial enterprise to another. Type two is a store that...
variety
931 photos
Variety stores. Convenience stores. Corner stores. Grocery stores ... Smoke shops. Milk marts. Mini marts. Markets. Confectioneries ... Milk & Variety. Variety & Milk. Grocery & Variety....
coca-cola storefronts
244 photos
Toronto has always been a city of diverse neighbourhoods that are constantly changing. Brand-oriented signage offered store owners a stamp of corporate approval, and the potential customer a trusted,...
kit kat storefronts
166 photos
They came out of nowhere ... and they were everywhere ... but now they are fast fading and slowly disappearing.
p m c
26 photos
concrete dreams
2749 photos
east don trail
32 photos
eastern ave bridge
143 photos, 2 videos
The Eastern Avenue Bridge is a truss bridge built in 1933 at a cost of just under $71,000.00. A CITY 1933 date stamp is still visible on one of the sidewalk slabs at the western end of the bridge....
in the corridors of power
156 photos
the high life
347 photos
a city of semis
662 photos
The semi-detached residential form has been an integral part of Toronto's streetscape from the very beginning. One can see this type of housing evident in the earliest known photographic views of...
gothic revival, mostly
182 photos
Same basic form as a Victorian cottage, except two storeys, and, in Toronto, usually but not always a semi-detached home or part of a row.
bay & gable
175 photos
2nd empire & the like
479 photos
d.i.y. living
104 photos
Not that I can guarantee that all of these smallish homes were do-it-yourself, owner-built structures that were characteristic of township development in the early 20th century just outside Toronto's...
edwardian ... et al
182 photos
Okay, these aren't all Edwardian per se, but they are all from the 1910s and 1920s.
20s 30s 40s
192 photos
wartime housing
43 photos
city hall
10 photos
union
9 photos
c n e
11 photos
ontario place
61 photos
stockyards
30 photos
church house
15 photos
peripheries
774 photos
tunnel visions
613 photos, 2 videos
gargantua
608 photos
jacob's hardware
73 photos
william baker park
83 photos
markham
92 photos
mclaughlin
12 photos
all squared up
5964 photos
mixtape 78-80
356 photos
mixtape 2000s
20 photos
posters
42 photos
keep your distance
316 photos
everyone's a comic
69 photos
warhol
36 photos
striking images
34 photos
more kodak moments
24 photos
interiors
62 photos
alley details
572 photos
crushed coke cans
1300 photos
In this project, I photographed crushed coke cans as I encountered them in the streets and laneways of Toronto. Although these cans differed from image to image, they provided a focal point, given...
tim's bits
841 photos
detritus
1058 photos
shopping carts
66 photos
good bikes
10 photos
the colours of rust
175 photos
buscemi yorkdale
38 photos
striation
38 photos
bolton mural
16 photos
t.o. tags
4349 photos
graffiti walls 1
825 photos
Graffiti Walls # 1 to # 500.This project has documented graffiti as it appears in the streets and laneways of Toronto. My initial interest was in doors, which serve as 'tag magnets,' attracting...
graffiti walls 2
4312 photos
This project has documented graffiti as it appears in the streets and laneways of Toronto. My initial interest was in doors, which serve as 'tag magnets,' attracting writers to make their marks...
graffiti doors
2273 photos
This project has documented graffiti tags as they appeared in the streets and laneways of downtown Toronto. My initial interest was in doors, which served as 'tag magnets,' attracting writers and...
graffiti stitched
6788 photos, 1 video
Stitches and panoramas. Walls and establishing shots. Contextual and specific.
graffiti in situ
18946 photos, 5 videos
Graffiti spaces. Graffiti places. Graffiti in context.
graffiti in transit
283 photos, 10 videos
the drains
213 photos
the spillway
74 photos
graffiti on show
405 photos, 1 video
graffiti slaps
888 photos
Stickers, wheatpastes, stencils ... anything and everything that's not tags, throws, etc.
graffiti azores
97 photos
graffiti - bin taggin'
68 photos
graffiti - rail tags
147 photos
graffiti - sudbury st
113 photos
graffiti - underpass park
214 photos
graffiti - skateparks
552 photos
graffiti - queen alley
1344 photos
graffiti - keele
71 photos
graffiti - ajax
81 photos
graffiti - oshawa
255 photos
graffiti - belleville
40 photos
graffiti - hamilton
520 photos
graffiti - london on
103 photos
graffiti - mississauga
60 photos
graffiti - st catharines
152 photos
graffiti - montreal
1283 photos, 1 video
high park homes
142 photos
no place like home
417 photos
tweedsmuir
84 photos
negative space
867 photos
Undefined or ill-defined spaces. Those spaces that no one appears to want to take responsibility for. Unused space. Spaces in between uses. Spaces neglected or abandoned or otherwise disowned....
the ravine
409 photos
Photographs taken in Cedarvale and Nordheimer ravines and the Vale of Avoca.
no parking
397 photos
abandoned restaurant 1
14 photos
abandoned restaurant 2
38 photos
honeydale
7 photos
rip rp
51 photos
college demolition
22 photos
r c harris
21 photos
hi-level
26 photos
water works
31 photos
some kodak moments
255 photos
This set contains photographs taken at the former Kodak Canada site, Toronto, Ontario, which closed in 2005. Included are photographs taken around the periphery of the site, in the Mount Dennis area,...
hearn
140 photos
hearn 2
154 photos
wonder bread
58 photos
lever
148 photos
canada linseed oil
90 photos
tower
541 photos
wool
188 photos
christie's
26 photos
rona
35 photos
symes rd incinerator
199 photos
wellington destructor 1
63 photos
wellington destructor 2
690 photos
wellington destructor 3
91 photos
After the clean-up.
buns master
292 photos
loblaws
578 photos
cadet
71 photos
kromer
13 photos
no room at the inn
15 photos
livingston warehouse
304 photos, 1 video
primrose
41 photos
goodyear
169 photos
formax
118 photos
greenhouse
25 photos
republic rubber
50 photos
belgo
108 photos
globe file
329 photos
burgess battery
214 photos
niagara parks power station
203 photos
newmarket canal
26 photos
sewage plant
24 photos
the island
117 photos
date nails
190 photos
the spit
127 photos
pottery road
80 photos
along the right of way
497 photos
Scenes from the train window, across upstate New York and along the Hudson River.
abandoned railroads
1729 photos
cpr don branch
249 photos
Opened to freight in 1892 and passenger serrvice the following year, this branch was in operation for more than a century. In its last days, it saw the CP Christmas train run its length in 2007. The...
radial railway
184 photos
on the rails
2501 photos, 1 video
don valley
420 photos, 2 videos
don valley brickworks
223 photos
bay lower queen
45 photos
Photographs of Bay Lower subway station and Lower Queen streetcar station.
inside inglis
31 photos
cn towers
122 photos
queen street west
523 photos
spadina ave
173 photos
west toronto junction
224 photos
west toronto railpath
513 photos
honest ed's
222 photos
kensington market
570 photos
liberty village
169 photos
corktown
59 photos
west don lands
53 photos
distillery district
25 photos
port lands
132 photos
joy oil
29 photos
There were at least 16 Joy Oil Company gas stations built in Toronto in the 1930s. The company used these iconic stations to establish a unique and instantly recognizable presence on the urban...
motel strip
59 photos
some silos
113 photos
king & john
19 photos
terminal food
29 photos
strip malls
39 photos
chuck wagons
13 photos
diners
47 photos
fotomat huts
13 photos
Fotomat huts, kiosks, booths. A few originals ... and a few survivors.
brown bell boxes
101 photos
Here are some of those ubiquitous brown Bell telephone boxes, inside of which reside the wires that connect our land lines. These otherwise bland, banal utilty boxes have increasingly become vibrant,...
fr8s - autoracks
8221 photos, 1 video
A couple of older racks from when I worked on the railroad. But mostly autoracks seen on the CP line through Toronto and the CN line in Toronto and in Georgetown, Ontario.
fr8s - boxcars
3294 photos
fr8s - hoppers
2562 photos, 4 videos
fr8s - newsprint service only
91 photos
During the year 2002, these green boxcars were to be found temporarily stationed along the Canadian Pacific Railway line through Toronto, at Macpherson Ave, between Davenport and Spadina roads. Part...
fr8s - gondolas
228 photos
fr8s - intermodals
386 photos
fr8s - tankers
167 photos
fr8s
9479 photos, 42 videos
fr8s - power
2915 photos, 7 videos
fr8s - monikers
4262 photos
some signage
351 photos
1889
129 photos
Here are some of those curbside grates scattered about Toronto, all dated 1889 and bearing a logo for the Toronto Board of Works, a long ago predecessor to the "service cluster" now known...
T W W
90 photos
access covers
271 photos
access circles
287 photos
city sidewalks
133 photos
pavement
877 photos
city sign shop
21 photos
dead bikes 1
541 photos
Various bicycles in various states of abandonment, real or perceived.
dead bikes 2
71 photos
scrapyards
116 photos
sense of place 1
148 photos
This is the set for those angled street views I feel compelled to take on occassion, deviating drastically from my usual full frontal mode of photographing. These are "establishing shots,"...
sense of place 2
357 photos
This is a second set of those angled street views I feel compelled to take on occassion, deviating drastically from my usual full frontal mode of photographing. These are "establishing...
landmarks
861 photos
These images are from an ongoing project to record glimpses of Ontario's landscape as seen from moving vehicles.These images were mostly taken in rural areas, along small highways and back roads....
hotel warwick
73 photos
This structure was built in 1910, on the north-west corner of Jarvis St and Wilton Ave (now Dundas St E), as the Royal Cecil Apartments. It was built on the former estate of William B. Hamilton, a...
piano factory
107 photos
Located on the north-west corner of King St W and Bathurst St, this factory was once home to the Otto Higel Co Ltd. By 1912, there were 450 employees in this building, manufacturing player-piano...
the bayview ghost
57 photos
Some photos from my two visits to the Bayview Ghost, on July 16, 1980 and July 22, 1981. For 20 years, the unfinished Hampton Court apartment complex, which eventually came to be known as the...
building the burbs
63 photos
st lawrence
44 photos
ghost highways
22 photos
out of gas
45 photos
ontario towns
451 photos
georgetown
428 photos, 1 video
meet me at the the station
48 photos
kart club
30 photos
on the farm
185 photos, 1 video
These few remains of a farm that I once lived on in the mid-1960s sit atop the Niagara Escarpment, adjacent to the Canada Goose Side Trail of the Bruce Trail network. They occupy part of Lot 22...
campbellville
8 photos
drive-ins
130 photos
the county
730 photos
Photographs taken in and around Prince Edward County. ON.
guelph
172 photos
steel town 1
22 photos
steel town 2
516 photos
sault ste marie
14 photos
clarkson
20 photos
sudbury
93 photos
belleville
66 photos, 4 videos
london on
120 photos
niagara falls
121 photos
waterford
44 photos
palmerston
56 photos
goderich
54 photos
st thomas
77 photos
caledonia
37 photos
thomas foster
30 photos
smiths falls
89 photos
railway museums
403 photos
pickering airport lands
84 photos
camp 30
187 photos
camp 30 too
258 photos
rural ruins
68 photos
wanna drag?
72 photos
This farmhouse was located on the east side of the 5th Line, north of Highway # 7, Esquesing Twp, Halton Co. In the 1870s, the property belonged to a farmer, named Michael Lamb. 100 years later, in...
school's out 1
33 photos
Chapel Street Public School, originally known as Georgetown Public School, where I attended Kindergarten, Grade One and the last half of Grade Six. It was built as a four-room schoolhouse in 1869 to...
school's out 2
141 photos
school's out 3
64 photos
school's out 4
18 photos
cheltenham brickworks
141 photos
The Cheltenham Brickworks were a favourite destination for summer bike rides as I was growing up. Situated on a natural shale deposit on the southern slopes of the Niagara Escarpment, halfway between...
cheltenham badlands
58 photos
rockwood
41 photos
nottawasaga lookout
86 photos
nottawasaga bluffs
33 photos
old baldy
37 photos
spirit rock
39 photos
scenic caves
66 photos
grundy lake
49 photos
nottawasaga
119 photos
lion's head
27 photos
gravenhurst
23 photos
torrance
26 photos
killarney
101 photos, 1 video
hibou
23 photos
french river
30 photos, 1 video
algonquin
502 photos, 1 video
cup & saucer
47 photos
rock dunder
60 photos
flinton
20 photos
rural graffiti 1980
144 photos
Literal. In your face. Sex and drugs and rock & roll.
val-jalbert 89
60 photos
Val-Jalbert was established as a company town for the pulp and paper mill built by Damase Jalbert in 1901 at the base of the Ouiatchouan Falls. The village grew rapidly, and eventually reached a...
val-jalbert 19
182 photos
Val-Jalbert was established as a company town for the pulp and paper mill built by Damase Jalbert in 1901 at the base of the Ouiatchouan Falls. The village grew rapidly, and eventually reached a...
fattal
101 photos
Originally home to Jenkins Valves, a factory complex for the production and storage of hardware. Now home to the infamous (?) Fattal Lofts, a mix of live-in lofts and artist's studios.
happy valley
138 photos
These photographs were taken in and around Sudbury, including along the road between Garson and Falconbridge, near Sudbury, and in and around the Ruff Cemetery, in the abandoned community of Happy...
love canal 83
47 photos
From a visit to the boarded-up community of Love Canal, Niagara Falls, on Valentine's Day 1983, in the period after extensive relocation of most area residents. These photographs document homes to...
nyc 78-83
270 photos
coney island early 80s
79 photos
Photographs from two visits to Coney Island in the early 1980s when much of the area lay abandoned and in ruins as various interests battled over its future. Some of these photographs were taken in...
nyc 93
19 photos
nyc 2016
801 photos, 2 videos
nyc 2017 - 1
613 photos, 7 videos
nyc 2017 - 2
768 photos
nyc 2018
897 photos
nyc 2019
621 photos
toynbee tiles
63 photos
road trip 79
45 photos
nashville 85
30 photos
chicagoland 88-99
97 photos
detroit 89
14 photos
detroit 13
490 photos
detroit 14
894 photos
detroit 15
879 photos
detroit 16
662 photos
detroit 17
276 photos
detroit 19
388 photos
flint 17
555 photos
packard plant
255 photos
heidelberg
267 photos
Photographs taken at Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project on three occasions, in the Summer of 2013, the Spring of 2014 and the Summer of 2019..
buffalo 14+
359 photos
pittsburgh+ 96
19 photos
pittsburgh+ 16
128 photos
pillboxes
18 photos
brighton, uk
20 photos
egypt 02
70 photos
behind the plaza
53 photos
It might be called a Market Centre now, but we always knew it as "The Plaza." Behind the plaza, where the Wal-Mart now stands, ran a pathway, through a weedlot, connecting the shops to the...
cemeteries
2984 photos, 1 video
Some photographs of 19th century gravestones, some in urban cemeteries, but most in roadside, pioneer cemeteries throughout southern Ontario. These are mostly the marble, sandstone and slate...
urban rural cemeteries
138 photos
barber bros mill & dynamo
1245 photos
The Barber Brothers paper making operations got underway in the Credit Valley in 1854. The Grand Trunk Railway trestle across the Credit River was completed in 1855. The Barbers' ground-breaking...
lime kilns at limehouse
89 photos
The lime kilns at Limehouse were built to produce quicklime, used in the manufacture of mortar and cement. The first kilns were built in the 1850s by Lindsay & Farquhar, north of the railway...
hoffman lime kiln
123 photos
holland marsh
153 photos
cfb picton
133 photos
Established in April, 1941, as home to the RAF's No. 31 Bombing & Gunnery School, the site remained as such until November, 1944. For the remainder of the war, until January, 1946, it was home to...
cfs lac st denis
174 photos
wind farming
20 photos
trees & such
290 photos
montreal 80s
27 photos
quebec 19
28 photos
montreal 14
649 photos, 1 video
montreal 15
704 photos
montreal 16
238 photos
montreal 19
98 photos
lachine 2019
49 photos
down east
3104 photos, 7 videos
winter in pei
300 photos
grain elevators
58 photos
out west
730 photos
trailer park
38 photos
Yes, this is indeed the trailer park that stood in for Sunnyvale Park during Season One of the Trailer Park Boys tv show. I took these photographs from the moving vehicle, to contrast my mobile...
auto bodies & car lots
47 photos
old cars etc
815 photos
military museum
19 photos
car museum
49 photos
car wreck
43 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 1
329 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 2
370 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 3
269 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 4
233 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 5
341 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 6
337 photos
mclean's auto wreckers 7
182 photos
ex food i ate
79 photos
winter storm
113 photos
full frontal t.o.
41 photos
one man's junk
449 photos
50 most interesting images
50 photos
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