Michelle Schwartz

I spent the summer of 2007 on a road trip from New York to Vancouver with my friend, Gen. I had borrowed a telephoto lens and was excited to try it out. While we stopped for a few days in Jersey, I discovered the joys of using it to capture candid images of people.

Photos taken with a Digital Rebel XT.

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Toronto is a city of ravines and valleys. Often, I will be walking along a major street and notice a dirt path obscured by some bushes. I’ll walk down a hill and find myself standing on a beautiful nature trail in the woods, as if five seconds earlier I wasn’t standing in the middle of a major downtown area. These photos were taken when I discovered the Don Valley Brick Works for the first time. For this set, I was really focused on texture.

Photos taken with a Digital Rebel XT.

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