For the past month as part of CONTACT, Torontoist photographer John Beebe has taken to the streets to capture the faces of Toronto in a temporary mobile studio on the street, shooting, producing, and printing his portraits on location. You can see him today, Saturday, for his last installation at Queen Street West and Strachan, from 1:00–8:00 p.m. To see all 150+ portraits (representing more than 30 countries of birth), visit FacesOf.ca; a selection of......

Forming the hub of activity for the month-long CONTACT festival, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) is showing Between Memory and History: From the Epic to the Everyday, an exhibition that mirrors this year's festival theme. Above, one of the participants in that exhibition, Magnum photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti, talks about her work. Also participating in the exhibit is Robert Burley's photograph, Demolition of Buildings 65 & 69 Kodak Park, Rochester, which is installed......

Photo by MarkyBon. The CONTACT Photography Festival: it's back, and it's everywhere. Now in its twelfth year, CONTACT 2008 has over 675 artists at 220 venues from May 1–31, making it the largest photography festival in the world—an entirely believable statistic if the amount of CONTACT shows being touted on Facebook Events is any indicator. This year's theme is Between Memory and History, which explores the complex relationships between photography and the human experience,......

Shoot Toronto, the weekly scavenger hunt on throughout CONTACT (that we previously wrote about here) is generously giving away 30 team spots in this weekend's hunt to Torontoist readers. Teams can consist of 2-4 people, and tickets would normally cost $25 a head, which means that we're pretty much giving away $3000, sort of. All you've gotta do is e-mail lisa@shootexperience.com to sign up. Photo by room929 in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.......

As part of Toronto's glorious annual photography festival, CONTACT, the Drake Hotel is hosting a photo scavenger hunt every weekend in May, and registration is open now. Dubbed Shoot Toronto and hosted by the globe-trotting Shoot Experience, participants get clues at the start of the event (this year's theme is "water"), and spend the rest of their day exploring Queen Street "deciphering and taking photographs as answers." After they're done, teams head back to the......