Canada's War Museum

©2009 Daniel Marchand

mus-mus @Paris : Results announced

The team at mus-mus has just announced the results of @Paris, their second on-line collaborative show. 122 invited and selected photographers are part of this show.

The members of the jury for this year's competition were Denise Wolff who recently left Phaidon to become Book Editor at the Aperture Foundation, well known photographer and promoter of color photography Stephen Shore, and photographer Gil Blank.

I am happy to say that the photo I submitted is included in the final selection.

I am doubly happy to find myself in the company of photographers whose work I admire such as Magnum photographer Alec Soth, Beth Dow , Brian Ulrich, Shane Lavalette , Stephen Shore and Corinne Vionnet.

Thanks to the mus-mus Team and congratulations to the selected photographers.

Return to film for landscapes

I have neglected using film for my landscape photography recently. I find the 35mm too confining and the 4X5 too cumbersome and too heavy to walk around with. With the arrival of the new Bessa III folding camera, I think I have found a happy medium. Here are some of the first shots I have taken with this medium format camera:

©2009 Daniel Marchand

Mer Bleue Bog, Ottawa

Just because I was looking at these a few days ago:

©2007 Daniel Marchand

©2007 Daniel Marchand

...both taken with Diana+.

L'Express - Hors Série

Last March, I received a message from a Photo Editor of L'Express, the French magazine. She had just seen my website and was interested in commissioning me for a portrait of a French family who had recently immigrated to Canada. On a nice spring day, I went to the village of St-Sixte, Québec to photograph the members of the family surrounded by their three horses.

The Special Issue of L'Express on Immigration to Canada, "S'installer au Canada" has just arrived here and one of my photos has been published to illustrate the article on the National Capital region.

New portraits

After taking a very interesting portrait lighting workshop at SPAO last weekend, I have added new images to my website. I should concentrate on honing those skills. I am very happy with the results.

© 2009 Daniel Marchand

© 2009 Daniel Marchand

© 2009 Daniel Marchand

Paris - Walk in the park!

I spent some time updating my Flikr account over the past few days and have included some photos taken in Paris in November 2007.

While in Paris for Paris Photo, we took a walking tour of Belleville, one of the working-class neighborhoods of Paris. The walk ended at the Parc des Buttes Chaumont where this photo was taken. I find it particularly idyllic.

©2007 Daniel Marchand