On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Derby Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Very cool. The two figures in the background are haunting. Looks like there > is an intriguing story to this. I don't know how intriguing it is, but the area that I took this photo in is very much in transition (and has been for several years now). It was taken about a block from Toronto's largest mental health facility and the area is full of rooming houses and "weekly and daily rate hotels" (ie: flophouses). With all those cheap rents artists have been moving into the area for over a decade, art galleries sprouted, and now many of the factories and warehouses have been converted into "condo lofts" for upscale yuppie types. The area is in the midst of being gentrified and there's a real mix of the down-and-out and the up-and-coming. I was rather glad to see that the two young ladies in the background were rather well dressed (in a weekend-casual sort of way), just to show the juxtapositions one sees in this neighbourhood these days. BTW, that poor old guy looked much worse close up than he did in the photo... Thanks for commenting, and thanks to everyone who's looked and commented. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
