IQMMA » 28 Apr. 2008
I covered the Iroquois Mixed Martial Arts Championships on the Six Nations reserve Saturday night. MMA is illegal in Ontario, but that hasn’t stopped organizers on the reserve from holding the competition.
You can see more photos from the night in a slideshow on the Spec’s website, click here.
Also at the reserve, there is an ongoing blockade shutting down the Highway 6 bypass west of Caledonia. Six Nations natives are doing this to show their support for the Mohawk protest at Deseronto.
Getting access to this, especially since I’m non-native, is very difficult… They don’t want to be shown, and I was lucky enough to be allowed to get this shot.
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Magnum workshop » 24 Apr. 2008
I will be in David Hurn’s group at the Magnum Workshop in Toronto from May 5th to 9th. I am extremely excited! The photographers of Magnum are my biggest inspiration to do what I do. Being a part of this workshop is a tremendous opportunity for me!
I did not receive a scholarship, as I had hoped for, but luckily and very fortunately have received the cost of tuition from the very generous Dr. Kevin Jackson and his wife Anne!
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Spec selection »
Here is a selection of pictures from the past few days work:
(Note: these aren’t the actual captions)
Molly MacDonald tends to the garden at Dundurn Castle.
Asmaa Enshassi, an immigrant from Palestine, with her son Muhannad, 5, at the Family Settlement Centre day care.
Sheraton Hotel employees Danielle Cuthbert (bottom) and Allison Arnold clean up garbage at Bayfront Park Tuesday afternoon as part of Earth Day.
John McGrane is being inducted into Canada’s Soccer Hall of Fame. Originally from Glasgow, he immigrated to Hamilton at age 12 and has since played soccer for the Canadian national team at the 1976 Olympics and played over 200 games in the North American Soccer League. He is now CEO of Soccer World in Hamilton.
Chris Minnick, a geography teacher at Westmount Secondary School in Hamilton, poses for a student to take a photo of him and a crayfish at the aquatics workstation of the eighth annual Envirothon competition for grade 9 to 12 students from 12 Hamilton area schools.
A slideshow of the Envirothon can be seen at TheSpec.com
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