2023
• leaves canada in january to complete his M.A. program
• while in the United States, buys a holga 120n and begins shooting with medium-format film for the first time
• returns to toronto in july, reuniting with TAF; successfully applies for membership at gallery 44 in september
• has his work published in a zine for the first time (plastic perspective vol. 5 by anna starr)
• buys an iskra, electing to continue with 6x6 medium-format
• releases his first zine, special delivery from krasnogorsk
• sells the mju.
2022
• joins the toronto analog friends collective after attending a TAF photo walk
• earns his second café exhibition ("alien shores") at first & last in toronto
2021
• earns his first café exhibition ("a.m. / p.m.") at white rabbit coffee in nanaimo
• moves to toronto for grad school in august
• continues his practice of shooting cityscapes while waiting to begin his M.A. program
2020
• has the black spotmatic overhauled, with the intent of making it his permanent workhorse camera
• enters a period of prolific activity before and during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
2019
• wants greater flexibility in his photographic practice; buys a pentax spotmatic off of facebook marketplace
• teaches himself the basics of night-time long-exposure photography
• buys a second spotmatic — this time, a black one
2018
• buys an olympus mju-1 as a creative outlet to cope with a new year's breakup
• spends the next year and a half using the mju to document gatherings, parties and city scenes
2011-12
• buys a nikon f3 for his 20th birthday; breaks it shortly thereafter
• becomes disillusioned with photography and stops, selling all of his cameras over the next several years
2010
• continues to learn the basics of photography
• buys his second film camera — a black pentax spotmatic
• shoots kodachrome 64 before the permanent worldwide discontinuation of k-14 processing
2009
• at the age of 17, purchases his first film camera — a canon ae-1 program — off of craigslist
• spends the rest of the year learning to shoot film, with varying degrees of success
2007
• at 15, takes a photography class in high school and is introduced to darkroom processes