Bio
I am an emerging lens-based artist living in Toronto’s Little Portugal, a neighbourhood I have called home for 30 years. Grounded in documentary photography and using analog cameras, my practice explores the liveliness and beauty found in the decay and renewal of the urban ecosystem.
Although I have no formal training, I have actively engaged with other artists over the past four years to transform my intuitive drifting into a more formal practice. Focusing on space over inhabitants, my elegiac images reveal the indestructible cultural energy of the people who live and work in the community. Change is constant in life, in a city, and in a neighbourhood; it represents both loss and renewal. My images explore the universality of the change within my neighbourhood while acknowledging the displacement caused by its gentrification.