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April 4th 2024 was the 75th anniversary of NATO, and I was in attendance photographing the NATO Canada NATO 75 reception held at the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto (RCMI). The following is a collection of my images, and the copy from the official NATO Canada post. Happy 75 Years of NATO #WEARENATO Thank you to our speakers and attendees at …
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This past weekend I had the pleasure of shooting for New York-based food writer, chef and New York Times bestselling author, Alison Roman, who is currently on tour promoting her newest cookbook ‘Sweet Enough‘ and had a stop in Toronto at The Concert Hall (formerly known as the Masonic Temple). Besides the usual 1 on 1 on-stage chat they had a VIP event …
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With the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival just weeks away TIFF just announced a brand new lounge, Varda, on the third floor of the festival’s headquarters at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Varda, named in honour of the celebrated French filmmaker Agnès Varda, takes the space of the Bell Blue room at Lightboox, and it was masterfully redone by the talented team at the Design …
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Although it was 3 years ago, I remember the day well, probably because it was the first time I’d found myself faced with a panicked crowd of a few thousand people running in all directions. It was a hot and sunny June 17th day in Toronto, hundreds of thousands of people descended on the downtown core to cheer on the Toronto Raptors after …
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With the Russian invasion of Ukraine raging on there is a great need for help for those impacted and displaced, and so I connected with a few fellow photographers in Toronto and some other friends to help me with organizing an event to raise funds we could then donate to charities. After having a lot of requests to shoot portraits for clients, I …
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After what felt like forever thanks to the pandemic, it was a great feeling to find myself covering a multi day conference again. Based out of the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto, including some screenings presented by Universal Studios, eOne and Disney at the Scotiabank Theatre, this two day ShowCanada conference brought people from across the film industry across Canada together for a …
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Living in the fastest growing city in North America I always see crane parts being moved around the city on transport trailers, however it’s not until a site visit for Fitzrovia Real Estate that I watched (and documented) one of the approximately 124 cranes in Toronto be removed as a phase of construction for the new Liberty House building in Liberty Village. Crew …
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It was Friday March 20th, just over a month ago, and seeing the Eaton Centre in the heart of Toronto at 2pm a virtual ghost town was certainly something I ever thought I’d see. There we were, a couple of photographers out of a handful of people, mostly security and cleaning staff, in what should otherwise be a very busy mall. That day …
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Last night I had the pleasure of being on assignment at TIFF Bell Lightbox to cover the Art, Activism & Astrology discussion with Astrologer to the stars and author, Chani Nicholas, which concluded with a Q&A from the audience book signing for her new book “You Were Born For This”. Astrologer and author, Chani Nicholas Not only was her chat with Toronto award …
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If there’s one thing I really love photographing it’s live music events. I love the energy, the music, and I get to capture some really great shows like the performances from Herbie Hancock & Kamasi Washington at a sold out Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto a few weeks ago!
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For the last few years I’ve been approached by locals and travelers asking me if I offer Toronto photo walks..well, I DO NOW, on Airbnb Experiences! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Toronto photog: Nick Wons (@nickwons) on Dec 29, 2018 at 4:01pm PST I’ve put together a great little 5km (3mi) walk to see some of the Toronto landmarks, …
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It’s February in Toronto, and it seems like this winter was all back-end weighted with all of the snow deciding to hold back until we were in the new year to bring us storms, back to back. Now I’m not complaining, not by any means, because we could certainly have had it worse, and in all fairness it has been fun to get …
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