The basics

Photo by Lucas Oleniuk

I started out as a writer. Then I discovered editing and made a career for myself at newspapers. A few years ago I started taking pictures again, which led me to photojournalism school, visual storytelling, and editing for multimedia. I am currently a writer/editor for the Canadian non-profit photography collective PhotoSensitive.

The details

I began my career as a writer and editor, helping to create and shape content at TV Guide Canada, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.

A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Humber College’s Creative Writing program, in 2008 I decided to return to school to pursue an early passion, photography. I graduated from the Photojournalism Program at Loyalist College the following year.

I have since interned in New York at Magnum in Motion and Falkland Road, and served as editor and co-ordinator of the Photographer’s Q&A for the website of the News Photographers Association of Canada.

After an internship with the Canadian non-profit photo collective PhotoSensitive in 2009, I have continued to dedicate my time to PhotoSensitive, working as a photo/subject researcher for Cancer Connections and as the coordinator of student submissions to The Fuel of Life.

I am currently working on the text that will accompany Kids Who Can, a partnership between PhotoSensitive and Easter Seals. The photo exhibition, which will debut in March 2012 in Toronto, is a portrait of 12 Easter Seals camps as seen through the lenses of 13 photographers and 12 videographers during the summer of 2011. Culled from interviews conducted during the fall of 2011, the profiles and captions accompanying the photos will include the stories of campers, families, counsellors, camp staff and photographers. I have also been collaborating with the project coordinator to help marry the images and text, selecting the pictures that will best tell each camp’s story.