Colin Way Photographer

Colin Way Goes Folk

It's that time of the year again. The Calgary Folk Music Festival is about to start this evening and I'm in the midst of preparing to shoot it with nothing but instant film and and my iphone.  This year I am taking a more low fi approach than I have in the previous years and will be shooting on the fly with a Polaroid 600 SE. I will then be posting them to a tumbr blog here. Of course, I understand the irony of shooting everything in a tangible film medium and then immediately converting that to a disposable digital one... but the exercise in itself will be an interesting one in patience and creativity. 

Be sure to check out the blog over the weekend, I will also be tweeting as I go which you can follow @colinwayphoto.  There is also an archive of the past 2 years at the festival on the blog from 2010 and 2009.

In the meantime here are a few of my favourites from last year:

     

 

Mayor Nenshi for Avenue Cover

Mayor Nenshi was voted yet again as the Calgary public favourite and was voted for the recent July cover of Avenue Magazine. I had the pleasure of meeting the Mayor and photographing him for this months feature Style Q & A. As expected, he was gracious with his time and had a great many things to talk about - see his full interview here. Our shoot was a quick one and over and done before we knew it but a memorable shoot none the less. The magazine article and more shots from the shoot are here.

Styling by Carl Abad and Hair/makeup by Teslin Ward.

Here is the Cover and an outtake that I thought just might be a shot of Mayor Nenshi scheming the future of Calgary...

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