• June 5, 2008
  • Posted by Marc

Dan Bergeron Documents The Residents Of Regent Park

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We’ve been fans of Toronto basedFauxreel for quite some time.  This latest project is one of our favorites.

As part of Toronto’s Luminato Festival Dan Bergeron is shooting portraits of residents of Toronto’s oldest social housing project, Regent Park.

Dan tells us:

“The buildings of Regent Park are in the process of being torn down and rebuilt, so the idea is supposed to make the residents literally become part of the physical landscape, challenge some of the pre-conceived notions that other Torontoian’s have of these people and stoke the discussion surrounding the displacement of some of regent park’s residents as they are kicked out of their homes for this re-build…