Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Friday, August 14, 2009

Fiston

Been four years this summer since my uncle passed away.  Jean-Yves "Fiston" Giroux was a barber, had his own shop in Hull, and pretty much cut my hair all my life.  I'll always carry fond and vivid memories of that place. 
 
It was a real barbershop, always two or three clients, men only, more often than not in a heated argument, barber chair with the ashtray at the end of the armrest, and worn out posters of out of fashion hairstyles on the dirty walls.  A simple brush cut could take up to a half hour because of all the talking my uncle was doing.  And after their haircuts, a lot of customers would sit back down and continue the conversation instead of leaving.  Amazing.

The day after he died, I went out and bought myself a good clipper.  Been cutting my own hair ever since (what's left of it anyways, see last picture) and swore that I would never sit in another barber chair for the rest of my life.  Still at it to this day.

 








Thursday, August 6, 2009

Chalet Lauzon, St-Faustin

La fin de semaine passée, c'était l'enterrement de vie de garçon de mon ami Mike.  On a fait ça dans un chalet dans l'bout de Tremblant.  Une quinzaine de gars, des chapeaux de matelots pour la sortie au village, un tatoueur bénévole sur place (oui la photo du tattoo est "FTW" au cas où vous étiez pas certain...  sur le haut d'la fesse droite...), pis moi qui c'était offert d'immortaliser l'évennement.  Les premières photos sont des "candids" avec mon point and shoot, les trois dernières font partie d'une série de portraits que j'ai fait des gars qui était là ce weekend.

Pas certain jusqu'à quel point Mike s'en rapelle, maybe avec les photos la mémoire lui r'viendra.










Monday, August 3, 2009

Claire

An old friend came to visit from Montreal last Friday.  We decided to go shoot again and had a blast like always.  Claire takes her t-shirts seriously, I cant dispute that.

Been away all weekend to Tremblant for a stag.  Next post will be about it.  Expect portraits as usual, along with broken barbecues, sailor hats, and cottage tattooing.