Twelve Imaginary Establishing Shots
On the TTC:
Tuesday the 4th, Saturday the 15th, Wednesday the 26th

Artist Statement

Toni Hafkenscheid's photographs of landscapes explore the limits of what constitutes fact and fiction. His photographs, although real and of actual places, appear more like model train sets: artificial, idyllic, and harmlessly toy-like. He plays with this illusion of real and fake in the landscape by utilizing simple tools of photography, such as playing with a shallow depth of field to make some parts of the images soft and others in focus, and exaggerating the colours so that the photographs look like old postcards and recall an idealized view of the immediate future typical of the 1950's, creating what might best be described as a postcard-perfect reality.

Artist Bio

Toni Hafkenscheid is a Toronto based fine art and commercial photographer. He was born in 1959 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 1989, he graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and shortly thereafter moved to Toronto. During the following six years he was active in the arts community in Toronto and received several Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council awards.

In 1996 Toni moved back to Amsterdam to pursue a career as a commercial photographer and to teach photography at the Rietveld Academy. He has exhibited in solo and groupshows throughout Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

Artist Contact

http://thphotos.com/
http://www.galleryjones.com/
http://www.birchlibralato.com/
http://skewgallery.com/
http://marciawoodgallery.com/
http://www.aronpacker.com/