Brian Lesser

Sidewalk cut, Toronto
#photography

Renfrew Place and John Street, Toronto
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Geary Avenue, Toronto
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Looking forward to seeing this Avedon exhibition: theimagecentre.ca/exhibition/r...
"Opening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in February 2026, and then at The Image Centre in September 2026, Immortal features approximately 90 portraits..."

Nothing to see here

A little laneway whimsy.
#photography #toronto #lane #garage #monochrome #blackandwhite

Garage door. Lane east of Shaw Street, Toronto
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Street art with emergency call box
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Walking along Spring Creek, Dundas
#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #triptych

Very different from what was there before. Here it is in street view from 2018.

Orphanage Mews, Toronto
#photography #lane #laneway

Don Snyder interviews Chris Donovan. Great photographs. I didn't know about the Ian Austen article “Cloud Over a Family Empire” either. donsnyder.ca/the-saint-jo...

Urban exploration on the abandoned house on Huron Street, Toronto

Windows with wall adornments in Orphanage Mews, Toronto
#photography #laneway #lane

Unmet expectations, Toronto
#photography #leaking #in_need_of_repair

Natural gas cut, Toronto

Mural behind a railing.
(In an lane just north of Cecil Street and east of Spadina, Toronto)
#photography #streetart #laneway

Toronto
#photography #lane #laneway #east_of_shaw_street #window

Sewer grate, Toronto
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Water valve cut, Toronto
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I wondered about this sign. It seems it was put there by Jode Roberts. More about him and the Toronto Sign Reimagination Unit at: www.joderoberts.com The payphone was there right into 2021 (StreetView). Gone by 2024. SW corner of Christie Pits, Toronto
#photography #phonekiosk

Laneway eat of Shaw Street, Toronto
#photography #evening #walk

Modern paint. Graffiti detail in laneway east of Shaw Street, Toronto
#photography #lane

Toronto
#photography #laneway #window #reflections #sunshine #toys #fence

Modern mixed media in Allan Powell Lane, Toronto
#photography #graffiti

Montreal
#photography #windows #facade #poultry #monochrome #blackandwhite

We’ll see if or how that happens. But, if I post less frequently in the coming months, and you are wondering why, that might be one reason. Also, it’s cold outside.

Social media is often addictive with its clicks and algorithms and I’ve been pulled into that world too often. So I think it is time to pull back for a while. When I have time for photographs I’d like to take the time to arrange them in little notebooks or on a pin board.

The idea of a photographer creating a carefully sequenced set of photographs for a book or gallery wall is not something easily achieved within a social media stream reliant on algorithms or a list of the followed.

Photographs on streaming media are somewhat akin to the individual frames of video. They roll by in sequence and sometimes resequenced as they are reposted in my stream in a different orders.