Makeshift, spontaneous, and unconventional memorials randomly encountered throughout Toronto.
Personal yet often activist in nature, many of these tributes document the passing of marginalized, murdered, and lesser-known individuals. Found in public spaces of civic sprawl, these sites were photographed and filmed between 2019 and 2024 in public housing, alleyways, sidewalks, storefronts, bridges, parks, street poles, and parking lots.
If we are all interconnected, death, loss, and grief are obvious equalizers. These ad hoc memorials — disengaged from commerce or the need for social likes — yield beautiful, community-minded, radical expressions of dignity, remembrance, outrage, and love.
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