Night Swimming for The Grid

This is the best part of being a Photographer, getting sent to place you have no idea existed. With your Camera as some sort of magic-introduction-freind making device.
 I arrived at the pool at 12pm just as a couple was climbing out, I introduced my self and explained what the plan was and away we went back over the fence and into the pool...
A little while later 3 young men turned up jumped the fence and jumped into the pool for some drunken men's Syncro swimming.Then another group and so on, till we had 10 or 12 people around the pool there was quite a party feel at the pool. The air was still and hot. Then back over the fence in soggy undies more torn pants scratches and cursing off into the night.
The pool was quite by 2 am.

www.thegridto.com/city/local-news/who’s-up-for-a-midnight-swim/

Zaun and Davidi Rogers ID's

Jays promo Greg Zaun from sandy nicholson on Vimeo.


Jays Shi Davidi Promo 10sec from sandy nicholson on Vimeo.

Greg Zaun has to be the best dress man to walk on to my set with out a stylists help, the way he is filmed is the way he turned up. Also sporting a very fine world series ring, baseball bling. These spots are now running on TV.

Bees for The Grid

I spent a sunny Sunday morning on the roof top of the Canadian Opera Company watching and photographing Fred Davies tending to his hives. The only sounds were the bees the traffic below, I got to eat some of the honey comb straight from the hive. Its soft and warm and Delicious.

0 to 100 Project Clip Kingsway Arms

0 to 100 Opening at Kingsway arms from sandy nicholson on Vimeo.

Some of the Residents of the Kingsway Arms retirement home posed for the 0 to 100 project. Most of the Residents of the Kingsway Arms did not make it to the opening of the Toronto show so we took the show to them. This is a short clip of the opening day.

0 to 100 opening at Kingsway Arms retirement home

We have taken the 0 to 100 exhibition and hung it at the Kingsway Arms retirement home.

Zoomer magazine 0 to 100

Out now the Zoomer aging issue, Has a feature showing all 101 shots from the project.
Its very nice and is getting a lot of great feedback from our 50 plus subjects and their relatives who now think of them as models.

The Grid photos: Paper Negs

Last night Eye magazine was relaunched as The Grid and it looks great funny smart and free.

For the launch The Grid gave 6 of its new boxes out to creatives of Toronto with the direction " make something / anything with this box "

I took an angle grinder to my box and cut a hole in the back side for a lens and made it into a giant view camera. I used photo paper instead of film as the negatives then photographed the Grid team with it. Each subject sat in the dark while I loaded photo paper into the back of the camera then made the exposure. A huge flash in the dark. The Negatives were then processed and contacted printed and bound it a book 16 by 20 inches in size. The first photographs ever made by Fox Talbot were made this way. The low depth of field and the very formal process of sitting still makes taking the photograph an event and creates a unique look.