Photographs made on assignment for Now Magazine’s “Newsfront” page, circa 2007-2017.
From its beginning in the early 1980s, the free weekly Now Magazine was one of the few sources of work about Toronto by local photographers. Most notably, the stand-alone photograph featured on page three was a rare example of an image presented independently of a written story within a Canadian mass-media publication. Over the decade covered in this exhibition, the page underwent several name and design changes, transitioning from black-and-white to colour and adopting a busier text-heavy layout. However, the idea behind its original incarnation as a space for photographs documenting overlooked aspects of Toronto’s social and cultural life never completely vanished. In Public represents a modest contribution to a much larger archive tracing the public life of Toronto at a particular time in its history.
Ethan Eisenberg is a Canadian photographer living in Toronto. He studied philosophy at the University of Toronto and went on to earn an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Eisenberg has exhibited and published his work in Canada, the United States and Europe.
