The 60 at 60 Project

As we move through 2023 and dip into 2024, and to help celebrate my 40th year in business and my recent 60th birthday, I’ll be doing my best to capture 60 new BW personal portraits during the year. Capturing portraits has always been my ‘happy place’ and I’m really looking forward to the creative challenge of capturing 60 new ones!

“A portrait is not only an opportunity to learn about each person I get to photograph, but perhaps also a little more about myself.”

Cheers, Dwayne.

It was great re-meeting and photographing Fanny Santamaría yesterday! Fanny moved from Bogotá, Colombia a dozen years ago and although she understandably misses her county and her family back home, she really loves the abundance of and easy access to nature here in Ottawa. After our shoot, we spoke about community and the importance of friends, especially having her family so far away. We also spoke about embracing adversity and differences and how, as Canadians, we need to cherish our sometimes delicate unity as a country.

Fanny also shared her passion for being a part of Ottawa’s Polar Plunge community, where she courageously faces the outdoor frigid water with a warm heart and her fun optimistic spirit!

Thanks Fanny!