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Alex Zafer - The Candid Flâneur 🇨🇦🍁
@alexzafer.bsky.social
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Photographer who enjoys capturing quotidian life.
Doc | Music | Street | Humanist | ART - Prints avail.
Media Jedi: A/V Producer; Writer; Comms; Thinker.
Selective Collaborations
Author of several photo books
*I keep the brutality of politics on X*
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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
Reposted by Alex Zafer - The Candid Flâneur 🇨🇦🍁
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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.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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In Canada, often, it’s not illegal to take photos in public spaces and post them. In fact, there is no such thing as expectation of privacy when in the public realm. HOWEVER...THIS photographer gives every legitimate street photographer a bad rep. Just take it down buddy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A photographer captured a Windsor, Ont., woman in the 'roughest time.' The family can't get the pics deleted | CBC News
Loved ones of a Windsor woman want photos taken of her on the city’s streets, during an active drug addiction, removed from social media. The woman in the photos is Alicia Newman and she died several ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I stopped using Instagram yrs ago: "If there’s anything that I realized a long time ago, it’s that Instagram really isn’t Photography. It’s content delivery, and photographers that really respect the artform and their own work shouldn’t think of it as more." www.thephoblographer.com/2025/11/05/d...
Don't Shoot for Your Audience, They're Fools
Instagram is one of the worst things in the world for photography and photographers. And your followers are greatly misled.
www.thephoblographer.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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AI-powered noise reduction and with a camera's internal computational tech, it's almost like you don’t even need a camera anymore. You can literally speak a photo into existence—taking credit for it. I'm conflicted with Ai. There's a lot to like and dislike about it.

petapixel.com/2025/11/10/w...
We Are Post ISO Now
A camera's ISO range matters a lot less than it used.
petapixel.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Lest we forget. As we honour our veterans at this time, I'm also remembering my grandfather who fought in WW2 w/ the British Army.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #BlackandWhite #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono #remembranceday #veteransday
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The greatest gifts we can give our children are roots, unconditional love, and wings to fly.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #city #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono #urbanphotography #angel
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I cannot imagine Anna Wintour would have selected this image for the cover of VOGUE USA. We'll have to blame Chloe Malle. It looks like an IPhone shot using some kind of computational HDR and edited in Canva. Not good. Sorry, Annie.

petapixel.com/2025/11/10/a...
Annie Leibovitz's Vogue Cover Shoot of Timothee Chalamet Raises Eyebrows
'Was this made on PowerPoint?'
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November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Public transit - sometimes it seems like one is travelling in another dimension. Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #city #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono #subway #train #metro
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Paris born Guillaume Marbeck is a recognized professional photographer — Alongside his career as a photographer, Marbeck is preparing to make his big screen debut. He will play Jean-Luc Godard in the lead role in Richard Linklater's upcoming film Nouvelle Vague.
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Guillaume Marbeck on his high-stakes film debut playing a cinema icon in #NouvelleVague

“I was 15 minutes late for my audition because I had to get the right glasses. Godard never made excuses, so I just said, ‘Of course I’m late, I needed these glasses!’”
Guillaume Marbeck on his high-stakes screen debut playing a cinema icon in Nouvelle Vague
Guillaume Marbeck talks about making his screen debut playing Jean-Luc Godard in Nouvelle Vague, the new film by Richard Linklater.
cultmtl.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Affinity announced a major change to its business model and product offering. All of its apps were being consolidated into one platform and made free to download and use. Affinity says it added one million new users in a week—that’s unprecedented in the creative space. petapixel.com/2025/11/06/a...
Affinity Added 1 Million Users in Less Than a Week
Canva added a million Affinity users in just six days after making the software free, which is unprecedented growth in creative software.
petapixel.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.

(Candid street portraits in motion).

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #streetstyle #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #classicmono
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Foggy autumn evening along the "mountain brow" on the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #nightphotography #city #photography #bnw #monochrome #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #BlackandWhitePhotography #travel #classicmono #urbanphotography #fog
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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FYI: For my Canadian artist friends. In Budget 2025, the government proposes to amend the Copyright Act to create an Artist's Resale Right in Canada, ensuring Canadian visual artists benefit from future sales of their work. READ :: www.carfac.ca/en/news/the-...
Good news for visual artists in the 2025 Federal Budget — CARFAC
CARFAC and RAAV, the national associations representing visual artists in Canada, are thrilled to see the Artist’s Resale Right in the Federal Budget : “Artists, particularly visual artists, are g...
www.carfac.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Where do you find the soul of a city? It's in her streets. You just have to look and see.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bnw #monochrome #GRIII #shootGR #GRist #GRsnaps #streetstyle #storytelling #BlackandWhite #urbangaze #classicmono #BlackandWhitePhotography #urbanphotography
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The ongoing practice of seeing—chasing light for something special and plucking it out of the un-special—it's the ongoing search for a new world, a different world created from the banality of the everyday.

#StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #monochrome #BlackandWhite #classicmono
The ongoing practice of seeing ... chasing light for something special and plucking it out of the un-special ... it's the ongoing search for a new world, a different world created from the banality of the everyday. Waking, like Alice, through a looking glass in search of another kind of world with the camera. The banality of the everyday is what surrounds us, but the desire to escape from that banality is strong. Yet there is evidence of beauty in the mundane world. You just have to see.
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM