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Alex Zafer - The Candid Flâneur 🇨🇦🍁
@alexzafer.bsky.social
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Photographer who enjoys capturing quotidian life.
Humanist photography | Music | Doco | ART!
Media Jedi: A/V Producer; Printer; Writer. Observer.
Open to selective collaborations
Author of several photo books
*I keep the brutality of politics on X*
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Pattison's brilliant performance best demonstrates Bruce Wayne's suffering from extreme childhood trauma. Perhaps he does live somewhere along the neurodivergent spectrum due to traits like obsessive behavior, social difficulties, and intense focus. This take may be the best Batman we've seen.
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Robert Pattinson's Batman is genuinely one of my favorite autistic characters I've seen in modern fiction.
He's not the autism representation we deserve, but he's the autism representation we need.
Or whatever the line is.
(It's also just the best take on The Batman we've gotten in cinema tbh)
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Iconic photographer, Sir Don McCullin turns 90: “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling,” he once said. “If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” #photography www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
alexzafer.bsky.social
Tell me what you do without telling me what you do:

I look at the world through a hole, and when I see something I like, I use the energy of light to draw it.

#photography #photographer #artist #documentarian #creative #visual #producer
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Downtown candid street moments. A couple of minutes as the sun finally poked up, right before it went back down again.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w #photographersunited #HamOnt
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Rain lashes down, grey against grey, streets now rivers, carrying lost leaves, forgotten trash. Umbrellas bloom, black and white flowers bracing in the wind's harsh grip.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #classicmono #b&w #BlackandWhite #travel #rain
This is the historic Coppley Building located on York Blvd in Hamilton Ontario. Erected in 1856, the Coppley Building is one of the finest surviving pre-Confederation commercial buildings in Canada. The cut-stone structure, which dates to 1856, was home to suit maker Coppley Apparel for more than a century. This building along with its redbrick counterpart (1911) are currently undergoing massive restoration. The adaptive reuse project will span over 100,000 square feet and include a restaurant, cafe, bar, and event spaces. The project will feature 96 residential with mix hotel units. It is expected to be completed by Summer 2026
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Evening shopping and a stroll by the majestic Massey Hall, Toronto.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w #PhotographersOfBluesky #photographersunited
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The message is PRINT your pictures! "More pictures are taken on smartphones than was ever the case with snapshot film cameras, but these fleeting moments are fleeting in themselves – perhaps viewed once or twice, forgotten and then likely lost." Forever. www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...
The shocking reason why your phone photos could be history's biggest loss
'Forgotten' photos are changing how we see the 20th century – but will rediscovered gems like this become a thing of the past?
www.digitalcameraworld.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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There are two new exhibitions in Vancouver that feature the work of two of the leading women photographers of the 20th and 21st century. Fearless and free, how Nan Goldin and Lee Miller’s photography shook the world. #photography #exhibition #photoart
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
They Lit the Path for Women Photographers | The Tyee
Fearless and free, Nan Goldin and Lee Miller’s photography shook the world.
thetyee.ca
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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First snowfall of the season I always experience a giddiness, like some wide-eyed 9yr old. Admittedly this moment of elation becomes shorter-lived the older I get, but still...

#streetphotography #storytelling #classicmono #b&W #nightphotography #photography #BlackandWhite #BlackandWhitePhotography
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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If you hear the beat of a different drummer... just put one stick in front of the other and find your zone!

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Caped Crusader commute.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w #PhotographersOfBluesky #photographersunited #batman #batmobile #cars
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Unless you need enormous amount of headroom due to cropping, or blowing up images beyond billboard size, generally you DO NOT NEED your camera to have a massive megapixel count. Personally I can accomplish most everything I need to do with less than 24mp. www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirr...
"Everything you know about megapixels is wrong" says pro commercial photographer
This pro photographer explains why HE uses a 100MP camera, but why YOU probably don’t need to go anywhere near one
www.digitalcameraworld.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Seeking inspiration and influence in Photography? Here is an interesting blog Point of View. I've written on the subject plenty and agree with many of the points made by this author. If you're looking for VISUAL NUTRITION (as I call it), go to a museum or art gallery. fstoppers.com/education/wh...
Where Do You Get Your Photography Inspiration and Influence From?
Inspiration and influence—these are things I’ve been thinking about lately. Why? Because it’s clear to me that so many new photographers are getting their influence from other photographers on social ...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It is odd how many times I've crossed paths with a superhero along my travels. It's a good thing I carry a camera wherever I go. Of course there's never a superhero around when I have actually needed one.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Sometimes the pressure of survival in the City can make you lose sight of your dream. I say hang in there, keep moving forward.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #b&w #PhotographersOfBluesky #photographersunited
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Patience. What you have when there are too many witnesses.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono #b&w #PhotographersOfBluesky
#photographersunited
November 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
Greetings from the Arctic Circle, where an icebreaker ship drew polar bears' attention
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Art Gallery of Ontario says it has received a gift of more than 450 pieces of art, including works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney. The trove of modern and contemporary works comes from the family of late Toronto art patrons Carol and Morton Rapp. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....
Art Gallery of Ontario scores major donation, more than 450 pieces | CBC News
The Art Gallery of Ontario says it has received a significant gift of more than 450 pieces of art, including works by pop titans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney.
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Blueprint cyanotype technique: The Photographic Art of Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg is about the fascinating collaboration between the former wife and husband team, who spent their marriage creating a series of hauntingly beautiful blueprint paper artworks. www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
Making Art and Love: The Work of Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg
A new book celebrates the collaboration between Susan Weil and her husband Robert Rauschenberg, who spent their marriage creating a series of hauntingly beautiful blueprint paper artworks
www.anothermag.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film Bugonia starring Emma Stone was shot in 1.50:1, which is 3:2 — same ratio as a classic 35mm camera. If you aren’t familiar with Greek filmmaker Lanthimos, he's an accomplished photographer as well as one of Hollywood’s hottest directors. petapixel.com/2025/11/10/b...
'Bugonia' Nails the 35mm Photography Aspect Ratio
It's a visual delight.
petapixel.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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WET

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #GRIII #shootGR #GRist #GRsnaps #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #rain #city #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Take me to the pilot.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #GRIII #shootGR #GRist #GRsnaps #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Music photographer Barrie Wentzell shot the world's biggest stars between 1965 and 1975. He talks us through some of his favourite moments. :: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Beatles, Bowie, Dylan, Mercury and more: rock’n’roll royalty – in pictures
Music photographer Barrie Wentzell shot the world’s biggest stars between 1965 and 1975. He talks us through some of his favourite moments
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A fitting tribute to a legendary composer whose music has defined generations of cinema. His scores have not only elevated films, but have also become a part of our collective cultural memory. The Hollywood Bowl couldn’t have chosen a more deserving artist for this honor. variety.com/2025/artisan...
Hollywood Bowl Dedicates Stage to Composer John Williams
The Hollywood Bowl has dedicated its iconic stage to composer John Williams.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM