Even though he denies it, Jeff Low is providing Toronto with a valuable service. In his spare time, Low (or "Mustapha" as he's better known online) recreates vintage photos from the Toronto Archives and then posts the then and now photos at Urban Toronto (a popular Toronto design and architecture forum). Low isn’t the first to recreate Toronto’s vintage photos, or even the best, but his collection is the city’s largest, and since starting in April 2008, he estimates that he’s recreated more than a thousand photos. "Urban Toronto inspired me," Low told Torontoist. "There was already some of that going on on a spotty basis—I decided to make a regularity of it."
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Newsstand: November 23, 2009