A Grant Officer at the Toronto Art Council put us in touch with Brian at the Chester Le Community Centre who organized the youth in the Finch/Pharmacy area and started a photography society.  We had a chance to meet the kids and learn about what they do and hopefully start something with them.  Now, we’re haven’t really had a chance to do much film related projects (No dark room, no money. You know the drill) so it was really exciting to see how Brian was able to get the kids focused on film.  Of course, having funding helps a lot, but more importantly, the kids were genuinely interested in the aspects of film photography that are a lot different than digital photography.  Having a limiting factor like a roll of film really makes you think a lot harder about what you shoot and seeing the kids shoot in this style really brought us back to the days when we didn’t have the luxury of taking 10 shots of the same thing and choosing the best.  Hopefully we will be able to work something out with Brian and the kids.  Fingers crossed!

Cheers,

Hitoshi & Vince