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Stache Bash 2011!

Back for a fourth year, I shot portraits at Mustaches for Kids Ottawa’s Stache Bash on Friday, December 2.

The group raised an awesome $25,000 for the Children’s Wish Foundation during their month long fund raiser. Huge congrats! Last year they broke their all time fundraising total of $100,000 and now they’re climbing up to $200,000.

Some pretty sweet staches this year as always. Click the image below for the full gallery!!!

Photos from the road

Two of these photos are part of an exhibit I currently have up at a new gallery in Ottawa called Fall Down.

Please go have a look. I have photos up there that aren’t in this post. The gallery is at 288 Bank Street near Somerset. The vernissage was last Sunday and a million people were there. Thanks to everyone who came and all the new friends I made.

Alexandria Ice Fishing Derby

Great weekend east of Ottawa. Spent a few hours on a frozen pond with a friend I hadn’t seen in a year and about 1000 other people. Big ups Best Western Cornwall and its kingsize mattresses and bedside jacuzzi.

Here are a few photos. More can be seen on my Flickr.

BONUS: Here’s a photo of me working last weekend in Prescott, Ontario. I’m the dude on the ground shooting video of some re-enactors. Spring is coming.

New year! New photos!

So, bonne année tout le monde.

Boom! Changed a few things up on my site! See some new/old/different photos in one of three new sections

lechampiondumonde.com
lechampiondumonde.com/portfolio-ii
lechampiondumonde.com/nouveau

For example, this photo I shot in 2007

Or this shot from 2009

A lot has changed since August. It has been rather exciting! Get in touch if you are curious for more. Otherwise, more photos on this blog to come. Thanks to everyone who has been along for the ride!

Until then, follow me on Twitter if you get down like that. A lot of non-photography content goes there.

Stache Bash 2010 photobooth gallery

For the third year in a row, I shot portraits at Mustaches for Kids Ottawa’s Stache Bash on December 3. It’s always a great unofficial pre-Christmas party. No converging Santa pub crawl this year though. That was an amazing sight in 2009.

Anyway, the group raised an awesome $30,000 for the Children’s Wish Foundation during their month long fund raiser. Huge congrats!

Now…click this photo to see the whole set of portraits!!!

My faves will be making it into my La Moustache collection.

Tell it to my bacon.

Sacha Gabriel is a cute local music person (singer, rapper, producer, dancer) with sharp vision and a great sense of humour to boot. We got together in July to shoot some photos. Watch out for her.

Blogging for Artengine

This week, Artengine is presenting the Electric Fields festival in Ottawa and I’m lucky enough to be doing documentation and blogging for the festival. Read and see more at artengine.ca/blog.

Here are a few photos from the first two nights.

If you’re in Ottawa, come to Babylon tonight. There is an interactive 3D party where I’ll be taking 3D photos of people! (you?)

Montreal Molson Alley

Currently somewhere in the U.S.A. Not far from NYC but still not much to post on Foursquare about. No stable cell phone reception for this Canuck to post from anyway.

En tout cas, I’m back where I was in March. Progress is slow but good.

In the spirit of things I did in March, here are a few photos I took in and around an alley next to the Molson brewery in Montréal when I went to see some bands. I hung around there for a little over an hour between this big rehearsal space and the beer factory. A sensory experience if I ever had one. Guitars & yeast in quantities that exceed bar levels of each.

Next blog post will feature some highlights from the blog I edit for the News Photographers Association of Canada. Sometimes I post on Twitter about the blog but if you don’t follow that, the next post will be especially worthwhile. It’s a fun gig and I feel lucky to have gotten a great group of people to share a bit of themselves on it.

Jokers & a photo or two

Weekend was random. Did this gig last minute with some Snobs and some Jokers. The poster had some 3D Heathers thing going on so I rolled with it. I think it worked out. So very. Click click click.

Wish I got to see Tonstartssbandht at my friends’ home but that show went on till 4am or something. No dice. Next time?

Last week, I made an epic salad for a knitter friend and I and we dined on the edge of the Ottawa Locks. While there, I snuck this photo.

Ended up being on Monday’s A Photo A Day on the News Photographers Association of Canada website. Ringing in the first day of summer!

Here’s another shot taken 22 seconds later.

Petit rappel: This Friday!

I’m curating a show this Friday featuring three photographers from North America…sort of?

Collectively, Nicola Kuperus, Ryan Foerster & James Cooper have been written about in People Weekly, Vice Magazine, XLR8R, Juxtapoz, Tiny Vices, ISO50, Apartment Therapy & Fecal Face.

Now, their work will be on the walls of Canteen Gallery in Ottawa for a few weeks.

The vernissage is this Friday, June 4 from 7-10pm. There will be cupcakes from Auntie Loo’s. Also, I have prepared a special mix on my iPod for the occasion. If Inaas fixes her speakers, expect to hear some Clipse, ADULT., Passions, Pissed Jeans, Goblin and Plastic Bertrand. Maybe even some J. Timby.

Plz come, eh.

I was on CHUO 89.1FM earlier today talking about it. Funny to be on da radio.

Here’s a poster I put up at a few choice spots today. Click on it to make it bigger.

PS: If you are on Twitter, y’all should follow me @championdumonde. I update that drastically more than I update this blog. This BP thing is bumming me out but I am generally probably a bit funnier on Twitter.

PPS: above is a photo I took at 2:08am some night a few weeks ago. I posted a few more on Flickr.