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PhotoSensitive announces our latest project on Canada's aging population. Over 50 PhotoSensitive photographers and 18 CIS Ontario Schools will be participating in this project. Check out our promo video!

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From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Yuri Dojc
Yuri Dojc was in the small spa town of Bardejov, Slovakia, shooting a documentary about holocaust survivors, when the warden of the local Lutheran church approached him. The man took Yuri to a former Jewish boysâ school that had been untouched since the Second World War, after its occupants had been taken away to Auschwitz.
Yuriâs photo of the abandoned library at the school had a profound effect on him, and led him to start a new project, which he calls Last Folio. It features images from former Jewish communities in Slovakia of schools, cemeteries and synagogues abandoned during the Holocaust, with an emphasis on the books left behind. In an era where books are disappearing, this project shows the history of books and the beauty of decay. Some of the books turned to dust when picked up.
âI wanted to make the books into objects of beauty and memory, bringing different levels of feeling,â says Yuri. Last Folio has been exhibited in several countries, including Canada, the United States, the U.K. and Belgium, and has had a profound impact on many people. Yuri continues to add images.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Valerie MacGregor-Rempel
In 2011, one year after a horrific earthquake almost destroyed Haiti and killed approximately 220,000 people, Valerie MacGregor-Rempel went to the island to document the positive changes.
âAs a photographer and childrenâs advocate, I jumped at the opportunity,â says Valerie.
Just outside of Jacmel, Valerie and a missionary from Alberta noticed a little girl who looked uncared for and who wasnât going to school. Since children in the area attend school for free and wear uniforms provided by sponsorship, this was unusual enough to draw their attention. âWe learned that the little girl was a restivek (slave),â says Valerie. âThe woman who owned her made fun of her and thought my interest in rescuing herâwe made six, ultimately unsuccessful, attemptsâwas funny.â
Of the many images from her five weeks in Haiti, this one of the little girl, Enite, means the most to Valerie. âThe photo and the experience are a constant reminder of how much evil lurks in our world. Through gallery showings, this image and the story have created some awareness that slavery still exists; however, it has not brought the extent of change I hoped for. But I wonât give up.â
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: V. Tony Hauser
âLiving with Land Minesâ Confronted with people who suffer from seemingly overwhelming adversity, V. Tony Hauser describes his first reaction as often a sense of helplessness. âIâm not a medicine man or a priest, capable of mending a body or saving a soul,â says Tony. âIâm a photographer. All I do is observe the world around me, and most often I seek to find beauty in everything at which I point my camera.â
After spending three weeks documenting how people in India and Cambodia cope with HIV/AIDS, Tony took some time to photograph the human accomplishments and beauty of the historic ruins of Angkor Wat. While impressed by the artistry of the ancient temples and uplifted by their magnificence, he found a different kind of beauty in the shadows of the temples, on a side road to Angkor Wat: the dignity of these young victims of land mines.
Even after some twenty years of peace, land mines remain hidden in the landscape of Cambodia and many other countries where past conflicts have ravaged the population.
Which pictures have the ability to change the world or mend a body or save a soul? Perhaps each image does, depending on who sees the photos and what they then decide to do.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Tyler Brownbridge
In Summer 2008, Jennifer Darmon was taking a day trip from Windsor, Ontario, to Grand Bend, Ontario, with friends. A minivan hit their car head-on. The accident shredded the nerves extending from Jenniferâs spinal cord, leaving her paralyzed, with little hope of walking again.
Tyler Brownbridge took this photo of Jennifer in February 2011 at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan. âShe had begun learning to walk with the aid of leg braces,â says Tyler. âThe plan, suggested by her fiancĂŠ, was that she walk down the aisle and dance once with him at their wedding.â
For several hours each day, Jennifer donned leg braces and a wedding dress donated by one of her physiotherapists. Month after month, she practised walking and dancing, at first with the aid of her physiotherapists and then with her fiancĂŠ. She learned to move her legs by shifting her hips and by leaning on her partner for support.
âJennifer did walk down the aisle and dance at her wedding,â says Tyler. âAlthough a long way from walking on her own, her achievement sparked a flurry of letters to the editor when the photo was published. Her determination changed the way many thought about those with spinal cord injuries, and inspired many others.â

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From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Tony Makepeace
Every year or so, for more than fifteen years, Tony Makepeace has been photographing the residents of a small village in a remote agricultural district in eastern Nepal. The opportunity came through his involvement with a small Canadian volunteer organization that helps to fund and manage a series of development programs in the district.Â
Getting to the region takes some effortâa brief domestic flight, a six-hour drive and then an eight-hour walk through the steep Himalayan foothillsâand in many ways, it is like stepping 200 years into the past.
Tonyâs photographic work in the community is primarily historical and anthropological in nature, recording at given points in time the everyday lives of people who live their lives in a particular place. âIf I am successful,â says Tony, âit is an admittedly subjective record of a way of life that I am observing as an outsider to the culture.â
But as land-based, traditional cultures throughout the world are ever more rapidly being drawn into modernity and the trappings of Western consumer-based economies, Tony hopes that this project will serve as a valuable historical portrait for the future, when the uniqueness of their traditions and way of life have vanished inexorably into the past.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Tony Bock
These pictures are from a feature photographer Tony Bock who worked at the Toronto Star in April 2008.
Sunny View Public School, operated by the Toronto District School Board, has been educating children with physical and mental disabilities for many years. In 2008 they had started a program to âreverse integrateâ some children without disabilities into the school. While Tony was with the kids, he watchedâand capturedâthis little event unfold. One of the new kids, Roberta (right), was feeling left out, but Samira (centre) had made a card to welcome her. The sequence shows Roberta warming to Samiraâs gesture and then hugging her.
 âThe kids I saw were learning to show real care and compassion for their classmates who were less able. Here is one young girl, showing a small gesture that made a real difference to another person,â says Tony.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Tobi Asmoucha
After the war in Afghanistan broke out, Tobi Asmoucha was given an assignment to go to Blufferâs Park in Toronto to photograph an Afghani family. She felt a little stressed about asking groups of strangers where they were from, but when she got to the park, a man spotted her camera and called her over, saying, âWe are from Afghanistan.â
Tobi ended up sharing their afternoonâand kebabsâwhile discussing their respective lives and cultures (they figured out her Jewish Iraqi heritage before she told them). And the whole setting took Tobi back in time, to her immigrant past and childhood when her family and community gathered for similar picnics in Vancouver.
âIt made me realize that most people just want to be understood and connect to one another,â says Tobi. âI hope that my work helps to alter peopleâs perceptions of other communities and make us more connected to one another.â
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Thomas Fricke
In Summer 1993, roughly 11,000 people took part in an anti-logging protest in British Columbiaâs Clayoquot Sound; more than 900 people were arrested. These protests succeeded in changing environmental policy to prevent the mass clear-cutting of Clayoquotâs temperate rainforest. Loggers left and ecotourism arrived with entrepreneurs such as John Caton, who established the Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge in 1998.
The lodge is committed to operating in Clayoquot Sound in a sensitive and environmentally sustainable manner, as governed by the United Nations Biosphere Reserve policies, and it promotes responsible environmental stewardship to its guests. Thomas Frickeâs photograph of John Caton perched on a large tree stump, a reminder of the areaâs logging past, was featured in Canadian Business magazineâs âHug this Treeâ article. Media exposure such as this helps promote environmental awareness and encourage the prevention of unnecessary deforestation.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Ted Grant
âIn the Beginningâ In sixty years of photographing news, sporting events and important people around the world, Ted Grant has shot hundreds of thousands of images, and yet: âEvery time Iâve had the opportunity to photograph the birth of a child, it is a very moving experience,â says Ted. It was especially so when he took this photo.
âTo be in attendance when your daughter is giving birth to her child, my about-to-be granddaughterâthe emotional impact is beyond oneâs wildest imagination. Then to have the great pleasure of watching this wee human grow into a beautiful young lady is a blessing few have the good fortune to do right from the beginning. Indeed, a life-changing experience.â

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From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Steve Simon
Much of photographer Steve Simonâs work has been done in sub-Saharan Africa, and heâd like to think that some of it has made a difference by promoting awareness of social issues and maybe prompting some instances of positive action.
These school kids heading home in a rainstorm, just outside Maseru in Lesotho, inspired Steve and encapsulated feelings about his African experience to that point: âStrong people moving forward in the beautiful, yet uncomfortable, landscape, persevering, optimistic for the future. Thatâs what I see when I look at this photograph. Thatâs how I felt when I was there.â
The photo was used on the back cover of his book Heroines & Heroes and it was also used to raise money for various HIV/AIDS charities.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Steve Russell
After a session with a prosthetic technician at Sunnybrook Hospital, Lewis Wheelan sits on a hospital bed with his prosthetic legs resting against the wall. He was eager to walk again, but the legs never really fit right and were too painful to wear.
Photographer Steve Russell met triple amputee Lewis Wheelan in 2002, when Toronto Star reporter Moira Welsh wrote about what had happened to Lewis.
Nineteen-year-old Lewis had just finished his first year of economics at Wilfred Laurier University and was back home in Sault Ste. Marie working a summer job clearing brush from under hydro lines. It was Lewisâs second day on the job when a nearby tree was cut, striking a power line that landed on him, arced three times and hit him with 7200 volts.
The article focused attention on both employer Great Lakes Powerâs and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Boardâs handling of the incident and of compensation provisions.
In a tragic twist, Lewis Wheelan passed away during the great blackout of 2003. Because of the many skin grafts, Lewis could not sweat. When the blackout hit, his air conditioning turned off; he wasnât able to get out of his sweltering apartment.
While the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board provided some benefits, it was rules Lewis could expect $288 a week, a little more than $14,995 a year.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Stan Behal
More than two decades have passed since Stan Behal captured this poignant image on a cold, damp February afternoon on one of Torontoâs most beautiful boulevards: a caring moment in stark contrast to the busy world passing by, seemingly unaware and unmoved by the plight of the homeless.
This photograph helped launch and showcase PhotoSensitiveâs first project, Itâs In Their Eyes. Christopher Hume of the Toronto Star, in his review of the photo essay on Torontoâs hungry and homeless, wrote of the photo: â... a group huddles over a warm-air vent on University Avenue. Arranged like a scene from some baroque painting, these lost souls seem almost to hover in mid-air, gathering like a group of angels around the dying hero.â
Commissioned by Torontoâs Daily Bread Food Bank and the City of Toronto, the collection of images was credited with helping to achieve unimagined fundraising goals. âAlthough this project served to create awareness and understanding of the challenges facing the cityâs homeless and poor, the challenges persist,â says Stan. âPhotojournalists must continue to accept the task of telling picture stories that may disturb some but can act as a powerful catalyst to improve lives and the city in which we live.â
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Simon Wilson
âThe Power of a Portraitâ Simon Wilsonâs photograph of Nathan Shaw was part of PhotoSensitiveâs 2008â2010 Cancer Connections project. The outdoor exhibit was launched in Toronto, expanded as it travelled to Charlottetown, Montreal, Regina, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, St. Johnâs, Vancouver and Calgary, and culminated in Ottawa with almost 1,000 images.
Nathan shares why this photograph is important to him: âIn a single shot, it shows the tragic reality of what happened in my life. My father passed away as a result of a toxic chemical fire that caused the cancer that took his life. I lost my dad, and my best friend. The photo reminds us all of the real dangers of being a firefighter. My dad willingly gave his life for others, and in the end made the ultimate sacrifice. His helmet represents his heroic legacy. The photoâs raw simplicity shows what cancerâs impact looks like through the eyes of those it tragically leaves behind.â
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Sherry Prenevost
âReciprocityâ On her first visit to Sierra Leone, Sherry Prenevost met 14-year-old James who, she learned, had been kidnapped at 7 years of age and forced to become a child soldier in the civil war that brutalized his country for eleven years.
Through a translator, Sherry approached James and offered him her second camera. They spent the next several days together, and eventually, he shared his story with her, something he had never done before. He carried tremendous guilt and remorse for the acts of violence he had been forced to inflict. When Sherry asked if there was anything that might bring him some hope, he said that he believed only God, and possibly education, could lessen his pain. Sherry decided to find a way to pay for his education. In return, she asked one thing of James: an act of kindness toward another.
James chose to challenge the youth of several nearby impoverished villages to do something positive. He guided them in creating a communal cassava farm that generated funds to send their poorest children to school.
âTaking pictures, James and I pictured what might be,â says Sherry. âFour years later, he has changed his own life, mine through knowing him, and the lives of twenty-nine other children to date.â

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From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Sean White
Hurricane survivor JosĂŠ Francisco, age 5, sits on a chair in the village of San Carlos, Honduras, after landslides caused by Hurricane Mitch destroyed most of his village. The Category 5 hurricane dropped record rainfalls in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua between October 29 and November 3, 1998. The resulting floods and landslides killed more than 11,000 people and left 2.7 million people homeless.
This photo was the poster image for photographer Sean F. Whiteâs touring photo exhibition âAlmaâ (Spanish for âSoulâ). The project documented the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras while celebrating the human spirit of its survivors, as they rebuilt in the weeks following the disaster. The images inspired the public not only to donate funds and clothing but also to join relief efforts and embrace the theme of the project: resilience and hope in the face of disaster.
From the 2013 exhibition, Picture Change
Photographer: Sandi Wheaton
Sandi Wheaton came upon the Amboy, California, âTown for Sale (including businesses)â sign on an empty-desert stretch of the old Route 66. She took this photo, little realizing that a few years later it would lead her work and her life in a new direction ⌠that along the way, would inspire others.
During the 2009 automotive crisis, Sandi was downsized from her position as a broadcast producer of training videos at General Motors. Recalling this image, she decided to travel across the United States to discover and detail what happened to the people and businesses along the historic Route 66.
Sandi bought a camper, started a blog and spent six weeks exploring and documenting what she found along the road, as well as sharing her personal journey as a single, unemployed female building a new life. Her blog readership grew quickly, as did a supportive online community of vicarious explorers. It became a life-altering trip that led to her current path as a semi-nomadic, self-employed photographer, tour director, workshop leader, writer, teacher and speaker. She has inspired many of her readers, particularly females, to take their travel and career aspirations into their own hands.