03/25/2026
Letting curiosity lead.
I was walking through the Toronto Auto Show, surrounded by polished surfaces, perfect lighting, and carefully designed presentations—everything engineered to look flawless. And yet, I found myself drawn to the opposite.
Earlier that week, I had picked up a small piece of glass from a thrift store for $10. I brought it along. Paired with a vintage manual focus 50mm lens that renders colors in its own unpredictable way, I started shooting through it instead of at things.
In the middle of all that perfection, I turned the camera on myself—layers of reflections, flares, distortion. Nothing clean, nothing precise. Just a moment that felt honest.
I’ve always been inspired by photographers like Saul Leiter, who saw beauty in the overlooked, the obscured, the imperfect. This felt like a small step in that direction—letting go of control and allowing the image to reveal itself.
Grateful for moments like these—where curiosity leads, and the result is something I couldn’t have planned.
