The Toronto Observer

Rob MacFarlane has been a crane operator for 20 years and a famous photographer for about three months. MacFarlane hadn't actually thought much about photography before starting his job at the L-Tower. But when he saw Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's brilliant photographs from the International Space Station, it gave him an idea.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but for photographer and University of Toronto Scarborough student Philip Skoczkowski, it’s worth so much more. “The type of capture isn’t really important, but it’s what’s in the frame that’s important,” he said.

Rouge Park is having a fundraiser.

As a professor at Centennial College, a poet and the author of five books, John Oughton enjoys capturing the world through his camera lens. His photography exhibit, Interrogating the World, was launched at Progress Campus Library of Centennial College on April 4.

“I was walking on a beach in Varadero and I thought, ‘Crap, I’m lugging this big camera around. I really hope there’s a picture,’" said Shannon Keller.

The photograph of American Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland's naked body being spat on and dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 shocked the American public. Taken by Canadian journalist Paul Watson, the photo - attributed to sparking the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the war-torn country in 1995 - earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography a year later.