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The Daily Photoist: [Untitled]
Each weekday morning(ish), we pick a recent image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It’s our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!
Just over six months ago, we featured Torontogal Photos‘s work as one of our very first Daily Photoist. Her shot of a police officer leaning over (and almost off of) his horse was a great way to kick off the regular feature. Since the pool was created, Torontogal has been one of our most active contributors, with 208 great photos submitted so far…so she’s long overdue for another Photoist.
One of Torontogal’s latest and most captivating photographs is this untitled shot. The viewer’s attention is immediately drawn—rightfully so—to the woman standing just off-center in what can only be described as one hell of a dress. In a photograph obsessed with looking (everyone is, including Torontogal and her camera), the subject’s look is the dominant one: her gaze is stoic, defiant, determined, proud. In one shot, it’s the ordinary and extraordinary all in one, a gray-scale embodiment of Toronto urban life in a few thousand pixels.