The Forgotten Photographer Project

Photo of the original Toronto Camera Club circa 1900
Edwin Haynes is amongst those in the photograph

WHAT: FACS 2400 Photography, Film and Popular Culture with course director Seth Feldman at York University.
CHALLENGE: To write an essay or put together a photographic or film project that encompasses the themes and studies of the course.

PROJECT: I will compile and organize a collection of a second generation relative who lived in Toronto and worked as a photographer. Likely contracted to photograph places outside of Canada in the 1900's Edwin Haynes did not just take photo's at random and without a specificity of his naturally artistic eye. He had a gift. One that was lost for many years inside a small wooden box in a basement in Etobicoke; where hundreds of glass slides of his work sat, doing nothing but collecting dust. My Father was given this box of slides by his third cousin Edward Haynes in 1975. By 2004 he began sorting, scanning and re-documenting Edwin's lost history through the photographs.
This is his story.

Note: This project will consist of a blog complete with many of his photo's, a tangible album complete with history and information about the images and reproductions of some accessible locations within Toronto that appear in Edwin Hayne's photographs. Further, my journal entries and findings on the journey of finding the forgotten photographer.