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 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.

Brady and Lang fan 590

Brady and Lang Fan 590 from sandy nicholson on Vimeo.

Shot for Rogers Sportnet , Motion and stills, A very quick shoot 1 hour total for both motion and stills.

Its great working on this series it's a playful and simple idea which makes directing the talent a lot of fun. Bouncing ideas around with Jim and Greg created good footage for Garus and his team at Meru Media Inc to create the Type treatment.

Toronto Life Sipper Club out now

Out in this months Toronto Life Magazine a great story about Toronto's best sommelier's

We could not have all the subjects in the studio at the same time so the group shot was shot in sections.

Each talent brought a bottle of wine to the shoot to talk about with the writer. They left them on the table then headed off. Its was a little like the start of a party I was thinking mmmm this could be fun maybe they will open them and we can have a tasting when we are wrapped.....

Will Predhomme turned up for his shot and pointed out that the bottles the other guys brought were in the $500.00 and up price range wine. We had a $ 6000.00 mixed case of wine at the end of the day to return. No sampling of those treasures.