The human gesture that reveals something of the human condition interests me most. These photos are not about the people photographed. We know nothing about them, little, even should we spend much time with them. I don't feel I can assume I know someone even under the most intimate of time spent together, let alone know them in a split second with the click of a shutter.

Psychologist Carl Rogers' principle of 'unconditional positive regard' defines for me how to approach another person and how to view people depicted in these street photographs. As with Rogers' counselling methodology, the truth is in the other person, not in me. I am no expert about another person's life.

For me, what people in these images represent is not some knowledge about them but some element of the human spirit that is in each of us, -in me finding the image to photograph, and in you viewing the image. We may not see the same thing, but that turn of the head, the look in the eye, the disposition of the body may suggest to your inner self something you are moved by. That little bit of recognition that in passing catches your attention may be a feeling, a longing, a wish for human contact, a social observation, a social concern, a moral impulse deep within you. The human gesture can be as dreams are to our imaginative life, an entry to the place we find ourself most honestly.

The Toronto photography you see here was done for a course taught by Constantine Manos, a Magnum photographer. If i liked shooting with the iPhone, I'd do more street photography. Shooting with a 35mm camera on the street is complicated now more than before. It bothers people so I don't do it. I use my event photography to substitute. I'll take a little time out of the event to be open to shots that might be worthy of street photography.

Of course, it doesn't seem to be such a problem shooting street scenes when travelling. Not sure what that says. Something to think about.