Porter sent me to New Brunswick for their “Weekender” section. I’ve never experienced the Acadian French accent first hand so it was quite surprising at how different it was to Quebecois.
This weekender follows the Acadian coastal drive that runs along the eastern coast of New Brunswick.
Here’s a link to view the issue: https://s3.amazonaws.com/porterweb/Content/reporter/35.pdf
A few months ago, I got a dream assignment from the Wall Street Journal. What would this assignment be you ask? Traveling to the Andes to photograph the gorgeous mountains? No. Taking a portrait of Bill Murray, one of your all time favorite actors? Nope. Photographing the Montreal Canadiens roster? Nope again. No, it was to photograph our provinces’ most cherished and sometimes ridiculed junk food dish. Poutine.
I traveled over 600kms to photograph our national dish in the province of Quebec. I ate a lot of poutine and loved it. My stomach didn’t feel the same way though…
Here’s the article and photos below. Enjoy! I certainly did.
I will remember where I was when I heard the tragic news of the Lac Megantic train disaster. One year ago tomorrow, I was in the hospital with my wife and premature twins when I heard of the sad news.
Maclean’s sent me to Lac Megantic to document and replicate iconic images from one year ago. Here are the photos. Maclean’s website has a great interactive slider of the same before and after images below. Check it out here:
http://www.macleans.ca/multimedia/photo/photo-essay-revisiting-lac-megantic-one-year-later/
Here’s a recent shoot I did for my good friends over at Detraform. I’ve shot photos for this telephone in the past (http://willlew.com/index.php?/things/detraform/) but that was for their non functioning prototype. This time around you it was a real working model.
It’s garnered a ton of great press. It’s been featured in Monocle, Fast Company, Apartment Therapy, Co. Design, Design Milk, Moco Loco and many more websites and magazines around the world. Check out their site: www.detraform.com
It’s been a while, i know and i’m following up with a shoot from a while back as well. All the way back to last November. We’re in a heat wave so what better way to cool off than to think of winter and ice wine!
Maclean’s sent me to l’Orpailleur, a vineyard to shoot a story about their ice wine. Here’s a link to to the story: http://www.macleans.ca/society/life/they-are-picking-on-quebec/
Video:
Photos:
Last fall I had the chance to shoot for a great series for Maclean’s Magazine. It’s finally out on news stands now and it’s called “Canada 2014: 10 Places You’ve Got to See”.
I was assigned Charlevoix, Quebec.
Here’s the video:
and images from that shoot:
If you’d like to see the 10 places, here’s a link to the 10 places: http://placestosee.macleans.ca/
Over the crazy summer (insert twins here) I photographed Derek Dammann at Maison Publique for Men’s Fashion Magazine (Holiday 2013 issue). This was the second time I photographed Derek. The first time was when he was at, the now closed, DNA restaurant in Montreal. Super friendly guy with a great smile. Photographers love shooting people who have an easy genuine smile like Derek!
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Here’s a recent shoot I did for Maclean’s Magazine. Mordecai Richler’s family donated his library to Concordia University here in Montreal. I sifted through about a dozen boxes. I think the coolest thing I found was his old passport. http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/11/23/my-dads-5000-books/
I had the pleasure to meet and photograph the local + international star, George St-Pierre of UFC fame, for his workout app called Touchfit. You can see and download the app here: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/touchfit-gsp-500+-exercise/id612292961?mt=8
We managed to photograph and film over 500 exercises in 2 days. Pretty incredible even for someone like GSP.
Client: Jimmy Lee for Zolmo.
Oh boy. It’s been a long 4 months of nothing from me here but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. Far from it. Babies and work have forced me to become a bit of a narcoleptic but it’s not that bad anymore, hence me writing here.
Here’s a story I shot of the St. Jude Spa & Gym for the Wall Street Journal about churches being converted to condos/schools/etc. It’s in today’s paper!
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303618904579170033112644624
“Will Lew for The Wall Street Journal” Love reading that.
