Harry Enchin

Harry Enchin is a photographer from Toronto.  He hit on the idea of using photo collage as a way to link the old and the new, to bridge the decades, to evoke memory through art. Enchin went through tens of thousands of archival images of the city. The series of work is called ‘Toronto TIME.’ I like this work he takes bright colourful photos, then places black and white archive images on top which make the images really eye-catching and powerful. It really shows how it has changed over the years and not just within the photo but also photography itself.

Front and Spadina

Harry Enchin

Dundas and Ossington

Yonge and College 2A 1948/2012

Eighteenth Street and Third Avenue, digital c-print, acrylic facemount on dibond, edition of 5 – 38.3″ x 60″; edition of 10 – 30.6″ x 48″; edition of 25 – 21″ x 33″