Next stop on the CIRCA exhibit tour, world class gelato shop, Solferino's.

8 photos from CIRCA are up NOW and the mini exhibit will run until May 31st! This kicks off a series called TASTE OF THE MONTH.

Opening event: Instead of another swanky late night opening, let's kick spring/summer off right with a casual afternoon of art and *ice cream*. Mmmm.

Join me, Saturday, April 28th, 2007, 3-6pm.

For more on what makes Solferino's so amazing:
http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2006/09/cling_to_summer_with_gelato_at_solferino_cafe/

More on the Taste of the Month series:
http://www.blogto.com/arts/2007/04/taste_of_the_month_tanjatiziana/

For more on Circa: An Urban Retrospect - the exhibit and book, visit:
http://www.urbanretrospect.com/

Books will be avail on the 28th.


Cheers.

-t


Thanks to Mike R who's organizing things on the cafe end!

Good news! The City of Toronto web site has announced plans for another nuit blanche night in 2007 - September 29th.

From the site:

"If you are an individual artist or collective, read the Open Call Projects submission guidelines and submit a completed submission form:

Open Call Projects Submission Guidelines
Open Call Projects Submission Form

Open Call Projects deadline: Tuesday, April 10, 2007"

( See http://www.toronto.ca/special_events/nuitblanche/ for more details. )

I CAME TO DANCE!

Part of the on going Cityshoots series at Le Petit Déjeuner, I CAME TO DANCE! is a collection of photos taken at various House parties in Toronto over the last year from venues like 99 Sudbury, Sunnyside Pavilion, The Rivoli, and West.

I'm inviting you all to come and check out my work over the next six weeks. Sign the guest book (if I have it ready in time), and spend a little cash while you're there. LPD has a good brunch, and great artwork up for sale (wink, nudge).

Le Petit Dejeuner
191 King Street East

for more information visit:
www.down.ca
www.petitdejeuner.ca

Next up in the CityShoots series:

CIRCA - Exhibit & Book Launch
Saturday, February 17th, 2007. 7-10pm.
Le Petit Dejeuner (191 King St East, Toronto - map)


THE BOOK:

CIRCA: An Urban Retrospect
by Tanja-Tiziana (Hardcover ed., 80 pp, 8x10")

Circa is a collection of photographs that document the timeless surroundings of one Torontonian, who like us the rest of us, walks amidst ghosts.

Disciplined as a child for taking photos of the city rather than her family, we follow the narrator's shunned photography through a hidden scrapbook, kept for decades. From the 1920's through to the mid 1980's - where it ends abruptly, the collection reveals the silent stories of a growing city through the eyes of an admirer.


THE EXHIBIT:

Ten 12x12" black & white prints from the pages of CIRCA will be featured in this exhibit, which runs until March 16th, 2007.

Book will be available for purchase at the Feb 17th launch and later online at UrbanRetrospect.com. I will be providing snacks and Le Petit Dejeuner will have a full bar at your service.

Please forward widely!


MORE INFO @ www.UrbanRetrospect.com

blogTO is running another photo contest - this time to coincide with the WinterCity festival (January 26 - February 8, 2007).
An Apple iPod Shuffle (the worlds smallest digital music player) is the prize.
Please see the full contest details HERE

Best of luck, and have a great festival!

(image: WinterCity)

For more information, you can visit the Praxis Gallery website.

Happy New Year! :-p

If you're still looking for 2007 calendars and would like to help out an injured athlete, I produced three calendars to support the Sean Corner Fund. The covers of two are included here. These are premium large-format calendars, available online internationally.





To find out more about Sean Corner and the calendars, you can visit this page:
http://www.torontosportsphotography.com/torontonomads/sean.html

Cheers!

José Romelo Lagman
CodexLagman.com
TorontoSportsPhotography.com

Hi fellow photobloggers,

Pretty/Ugly, the latest addition to the year-long Cityshoots series, aims to portray the beauty in the mundane - Toronto style!

Join us for a cocktail at one of the city's most beloved restaurants, Le Petit Dejeuner, on Saturday November 25th at 7pm.

This is a joint show by Carrie Musgrave (aka Delineated) and Jerrold Litwinenko (aka Photosapience).

Hi photobloggers,

The deadline for submissions to blogTO's Autumn Photo Contest is Friday November 3rd, at midnight.

Best of luck, everyone!

I threw together a quick Google custom search page restricted to just the set of Toronto photobloggers listed here. Check it out and find all those great pictures of the Brick Works, Kensington Market, and of course the BCE place.

My first solo exhibit, South of Bloor, is opening this Saturday, October 14. There's an opening reception at 7:00 p.m. The show runs until mid-November at Le Petit Déjeuner, which is located at 191 King Street East, just east of Jarvis (map).

Check out this page or my photoblog for more info about the show.

I got my first digital SLR in May 2005. I've taken thousands of photographs of my hometown. Each image has its own story. I've put together my favorite images and produced this slideshow, set to homeboy Maestro's "Stick to Your Vision". Enjoy it! :-)





PEACE!

José Romelo Lagman
CodexLagman.com

(From http://www.whippersnapper.ca):
"Fragments of Everyday" is the first solo exhibition of Toronto Photographers "istoica". "istoica" (Chris Altorf and Jessica Hayes) maintain a daily Toronto photoblog at http://www.istoica.com/everyday .The exhibit will showcase some of their continuing work in portraiture as well as their exploration in to subjects inanimate. The opening will begin at 7pm on September 15th and the show will continue to run through until September 26th."

"We come and we go, and nothing remains unchanged..."



Opening reception: Monday July31, 7pm
The Crooked Star
202 Ossington Ave
Toronto

More info at: Photosapience Daily

It'd be great to see some of you there!

Cheers,
Jerrold

Dear Friends,

The second annual "Picture the Cure" is underway and we'd like to invite you to be a part of this special event to raise funds for the Canadian Cancer Society.

First and foremost, you are cordially invited:

Picture the Cure 2006
August 21 (Monday)
6pm-midnight
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West

Advance tickets: $10
At the door: $15

Our goal for this year is to raise at least $5,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society who, along with the Terry Fox Foundation, is the primary source of funding for the National Cancer Institute of Canada. The Canadian Cancer Society:

* funds research on all types of cancer
* offers comprehensive and credible information on cancer, risk reduction and treatment
* provides support for people living with cancer, family members and friends

We have the support of the Ontario branch, and have their endorsement to include their logo and name to promote the event.

Our plan for August 21:

300 attendees
100+ matted and framed prints on display for silent auction with artist information
live entertainment
door prizes/raffles
light fare

How you can help:

1. Photography/digital imagery/painting

You can enter up to three pictures to the auction gallery, but once your submission is accepted, there will be an entry fee of 35$ CAD per photograph to cover the printing/framing costs (lower price for smaller pictures, minimum $20 CAD). You will be provided with a ftp account to upload your full resolution picture to a secure server. This picture will also be featured on the "Picture the Cure" website (in the works), along with your biography and link to your personal website.

There will be no other hidden fees required from you. The reason I am asking for a participation fee is because all prints will be handled at once and printing/framing costs are much more affordable this way. The goal is to donate as much money as possible to the foundation and we can only achieve this by minimizing expenses.

The costs for printing, matting, and framing for photography/digital imagery are as follows:

12x18, 12x12 - $35
8x12, 8x10 - $30
5x7 - $20

Please note the above prices are at cost. If you wish to provide the print, contact us for adjusted prices. We'll need ALL SUBMISSIONS by the end of June so they are ready in time.

2. Sponsorship

We are also still searching for sponsors for the following:

- catering
- live entertainment
- items for raffle (autographed merchandise, books, certificates, spa vouchers, or the like -- Botox injections? subscriptions to "Martha Stewart Living"?)

If you've got friends who do catering, are in the entertainment biz, or have any goods or services we can promote the hell out of on August 21 in the name of charity, send them our way!

3. Volunteers

If you would like to lend your assistance at the Gladstone, we will be only too glad to delegate. Please let us know.

Last but not least, thank you in advance for all your help -- we greatly appreciate it.

Your devoted organizers,
Irina and Gail

Above photo provided by Davin Risk

TO photobloggers seem to be very busy this month. Tomorrow night, four high profiled photobloggers will be presenting their images at Harbourfront centre in a show called Photogrammetry. The ever changing show was produced in association with Spacing magazine and is also a part of Digifest 2006.

Participating in the exhibition are
Davin Risk > lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail > makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan > thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh > dailydoseofimagery.com

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)
Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

TIME IN SPACE

Featuring the first official
photographic exhibit of

Pramesh Attwala

Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
7:00 - 9:00 pm

M-ONE-11
561 Queen Street West

for more information visit:
www.contactphoto.com
www.mone11.ca
www.down.ca

TORONTO SQUARED
Photography by RANNIE TURINGAN
Le Petit Déjeuner
191 King Street East.
April 29th - June 6th

OPENING Saturday April 29, 2006
4:30 - 7:30PM

Part of the CONTACT Photography Festival

My good friend and fellow photoblogger Irina is going to have her second annual fundraiser for Brest Cancer called Picture The Cure. Last year she raised thousands of dollars for Breast Cancer research. This year she is opening up submissions to all. The deadline is May 1st. It's a cool way to get your images shown and it all goes to a good cause.

You can read more about the cause in the spotlight I did on Irina last year.

Hey folks

May is just around the corner and soon we'll have a bunch of people from out of town coming to Toronto for a big photoblogger get together weekend.

If you haven't already, check out the wiki I started for the weekend. This is a collaborative effort so please feel free to spread the word and put in your 2 cents.

Slate Magazine has some Earth-Day related photos up, here:

http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060421/

The tenth annual Contact Photo Festival is just around the corner and I thought I would take a minute to invite any and all Toronto bloggers/photobloggers to come down and meet the DK Photogroup at our opening May 3rd at Steamwhistle Brewery.

For more info, click here. Hope to see you all there!

The new version of photoblogs.org has recently gone live.

The new system works on a bookmarking and tagging framework as opposed to the previous Favorites framework. Using your photoblogs.org account, you will able to bookmark all the photoblog sites you like to visit as well as add descriptive commentary and keyword tags for each bookmark. Very web 2.0.

Make sure you Tag any Toronto sites with a "Toronto" tag, it already seems to be one of the more popular tags on the new system.

I'd like to announce that the Toronto Area Photobloggers have now have a google group. If you would like to be kept up-to-date on the going ons in Toronto as well as discuss other photography issues in the city please feel free to join.

	Subscribe to Toronto Area Photobloggers
	Email:
	Browse Archives at groups.google.com

I announced this at the Apple Store presentation, but I figure it's about time I post about it here. I would like to invite you to the March Photoblogger Pre St Patrick's Day Get Together.

C'est What?
67 Front Street East
Thursday, March 16th
7pm

Come on down, bring your cameras, wear green.

The Toronto Free Gallery will be showcasing a window installation of Portraits in the Park in their 24 Hours Gallery. The installation includes photography by Rannie Turingan and an illustrated map by Antony Hare.

The Toronto Free Gallery is located at 660 Queen Street East. The exhibit will be on display from March 9th to April 8th. The opening for the exhibit will take place on Thursday March 9th from 8 to 10 pm.

The Apple Store Yorkdale will feature the second Toronto Area Photobloggers event on Sunday, February 26th at 6:30pm.

Presenters include
Chris and Jessica of istoica,
Payam Rajabi of ColourBlind.ca,
Irina Souiki of StillMemory.ca,
Sam Javanrouh of Daily Dose of Imagery,
Shahin Edalati of Foto Project, and
Taku Kumabe of media smaku with
the latest issue of U&IMagazine.

Plus, arrive by 6:30 pm and receive a 10% off Full Retail Price coupon good for anything in the Apple Store.

Hosted by HiMY SYeD of photopia and sponsored by Torontoist, Spacing, U&I magazine and toronto.photobloggers.org.

Come participate in the evening's discussions, meet fellow photobloggers and have some late February fun!

Hi all,

Just wanted to share some news about exciting blog related initiatives happening at the AGO.

I've been working with the gallery to start embracing the blogging community in the city as media. As a first initiative, a group of bloggers - photo, video, podcast & others - will be reporting from the opening launch of the Frank Gehry exhibit next Tuesday. The group will have almost total access and I'm hoping some wonderfully creative work will be produced.

There's some more info here: http://singer.to/2006/02/09/blogging-at-the-ago/

As well, you may want check out the AGO blog: http://www.artmatters.ca/

Cheers!

Eli Singer
http://www.singer.to

Tonight, Sam will be doing a presentation on Photoblogging Toronto at Hart House at the University of Toronto. It's at 7:30pm and free to the public.

Spacing Magazine's "In Transit" gallery exhibit

Just a reminder that tonight is the opening night of Spacing Magazine's "In Transit" gallery exhibit, which runs until the end of February at the Toronto Free Gallery on Queen St. East.


For more details, and the list of artists -- including the "who's who" of Photobloggery (and me) -- see http://spacing.ca/intransit/. For more details on the Toronto Free Gallery see http://torontofreegallery.org/.


Hope to see you there!