For the most part, the buildings on the north side of Dundas Street West between Spadina and Bathurst are an architectural hodgepodge. The one exception to the general heterogeneity was, until re...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/23/documenting-the-collapsed-dundas-street-buildings/
Unlike his Parks Series, which highlights the inclusiveness of the City’s recreational facilities, Goss’s Toronto Water Works Series documents what was at that time exclusively a man’s worl...
Following the appointment of Charles E. Chambers as Parks Commissioner in 1912, Toronto’s park system entered a period of continuous expansion, creating new parks, playgrounds and recreation ce...
“The way he stares, he’s forcing you to engage with him.” Zun Lee, the renowned street photographer known for his profound interactions with his subjects, vividly recalls his encounter with...
The Housing Series is the product of the last new project Arthur Goss undertook as the City’s Official Photographer. Between March, 1936 and January, 1940, he produced 675 carefully composed ph...
Over a three-day weekend last winter, the last few residents of the retirement home at the west end of our street were quietly moved out. No one really saw them leave—there weren’t any tellta...
Anyone who delves into the visual records related to Toronto’s twentieth-century social history is likely to come across photographs taken between 1910 and 1940 by the city’s first Official P...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/03/04/the-urban-photography-of-arthur-goss-part-1/
Between 1995 and 2020, Canada’s oldest independent record retailer, KOPS Records, occupied an aged storefront at 229 Queen Street West, between Simcoe and Duncan Streets. I don’t remember wha...
Portraits of Queen West: Spadina to Bathurst is being published through a crowdfunding campaign that launches today. Check the campaign website for updates. This book is a love letter to Queen St...
This photography exhibit explores Rosehill Reservoir and David A. Balfour Park, the largest green spaces in the Deer Park/Summerhill neighbourhoods of midtown Toronto. They were closed from 2018-...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/30/secrets-of-rosehill-reservoir-and-david-a-balfour-park/
Malabar Limited, the famed costume emporium, closed in March 2022. Although it had been a fixture of downtown Toronto’s cultural landscape for 99 years, it departed without fanfare or media cov...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2023/05/25/farewell-to-malabar-torontos-former-costume-emporium/
In advance of Spacing’s upcoming issue focused on Ontario Place, we are sharing some of photographer Steven Evans’s images of the site. See his website for the full three sets of photos. I fi...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/12/15/as-is-photographs-of-ontario-place-2021-2022/
Toronto historian Richard White has recently completed an original new history of the Beaches neighbourhood that should be out and available sometime next year (U of T Press). As a pre-publicatio...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/12/01/beaches-historical-sight-east-of-silver-birch/
With an essay by Orly Linovski. A documentary project focused exclusively on the architecture of suburban strip malls: this idea occurred to me while I was researching archival photos for my 202...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/11/24/photographing-torontos-suburban-strip-malls/
This second part of my feature on Lever Brothers soap and detergent manufacturing in the lower Don Valley will examine the eight-decade history of Plant No. 1, known as the Sunlight Soap Works wi...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/03/28/from-sunlight-park-to-east-harbour-part-2-of-2/
In July, 2021, the developer Cadillac Fairview introduced a revised plan for the transformation of the former Unilever soap manufacturing site in the Lower Don Valley into a business and resident...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/01/18/from-sunlight-park-to-east-harbour-part-1-of-2/
In 2003 I began a two part documentary photography project featuring the McGregor Socks knitting mill on Spadina Avenue, and the Korex soap and detergent works in the lower Don Valley. Both plant...
Over the summer and fall I was happy to work with a team put together by the German Consulate in Toronto on a series of audio walks exploring Toronto’s geography and history, with a special foc...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2021/11/05/achtung-go-for-a-german-walk-t-o/
As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see my work as belonging to an important tradition dating from ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2021/08/20/camera-shy-downtown-bathurst-street/
In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting underway. Staying one step ahead of the wreckers, I was able to...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2021/05/13/recording-hart-masseys-factory-and-concert-hall/