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Dawson College Commercial Photography
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We would like to thank everyone who took part in the Dawson
College Commercial Photography during the last years.
We are extremely proud and grateful to have had the best mentors, advisors
and classmates who as a whole, shaped and contributed to our artistic
and professional vision. Thank you Joel Silverstein, Valerie Simmons,
Patrizia Castiglione, Pierre Arsenault, Barry Muise, Kate Hutchinson,
Adriano Onorati, Russel Proulx, Jorge Cammarotti, Anouk Lessard, your tips,
advice, and knowledge greatly contributed to this great accomplishment.
A special thank you to Denis Gendron, Michel Pilon and Laurel Breidon for your
invaluable support during the realization of our graduating portfolio.
We don’t forget Mr. Philipe de L’Etoile and Emilio Eber Serrani who rocked
the equipment room during the last 2 years, Thank you guys!
Last but not least, we would like to thank all of our sponsors; without your
generosity, this event would not have happened.

Travel Photography
Alexandre Kassatly
Alexandre Kassatly has been fortunate that his Hotel experience
have permitted him to discover exciting destinations, and live in
elegant places & meet authentic people. Photography is a passion
& pleasure, and graduating from Dawson commercial photography
has added to my knowledge and experience.
Every Artist seeks to convey something in the art; it can be very
personal or emotional. I saw something that I connected with
in some unspoken way and wanted to photography it so others
could possibly enjoy what I saw. I believe that the world exists
and quietly shows some of itself everyday. It could be that my
intentions are to also express it in my images, but in a very small
part of the world.
photoalexkassatly.com
facebook.com/photoalexkassatly
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Portraiture – Fashion Editorial
Annie Gilbert
Photographer, with an academic background in art, literature
& cinema and years of travelling the world.
Deep fascination for the human kind & its complexity, uniqueness
and beauty.
Stimulated by art in all of its forms & aesthetics and by the world
with its differences and similarities.
Inspired by everyday life in all its splendour and quirkiness, by
people and their stories, by colours, light & textures, lines, space
& composition.
anniegilbert@hotmail.com
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Advertising Illustration
Atlas Ranjbari
Great passion for photography, design and styling.
In love with colors, light, forms and composition.
Fascinated by Advertising and Fashion.
atlasranjbari.com
atlas.rb@gmail.com
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Documentary
Ayodele Mzilikazi
I am inspired by the people around me, my friends, my family and
new encounters, i am in the pursuit of freezing these moments
and to document they’re stories. To immortalize those flickering
moments you’d miss if you blink.
ayodelemzilikazi.com
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Editorial Food Photography
Carla Oliveira
I’m a Brazilian who fell in love with and in Montreal. I decided to
live here 7 years ago and since then I discovered my passion for
photography, for food, for this city and for its people. I believe
photography enables me to combine all those things together giving
me the unique opportunity to unveil the beauty in simple things
and in our most precious moments.
carlaoliveira.photography
facebook.com/carlaoliveiraphoto
instagram.com/carlaoliveiraphoto
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Fashion Editorial
Charles Lynn
As a former novelist, I love story telling. I love oil paintings and
movies too since I was a little boy.
I brought three of my favorite art forms into my fashion editorial
works, I hope viewers enjoy them like I do.
I pursuit the grand beauty which cannot be described by language.
There is a long way in front of me, this is my first step...
charleslynnphoto.com
facebook.com/charleslynn007
instagram.com/charles_lynn_photography
charleslynnfoto@gmail.com
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Fashion – Portraiture
Charlotte Lefèvre
Young enough, I thought that the only way to catch fairies was with
a camera, that if I would be patient enough, I would end up with
photos of them, proofs of their existence.
This is what portrait photography is to me. As if every picture is part
of a dream.
charlottelefevre.com
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Architecture
Daniel Côté
My first career was in finance; nevertheless I am doing photography
for a long time. Early I did follow current events as a photojournalist
for a College de Maisonneuve newspaper and shoot a few weddings
for friends, all before digital photography. Recently, I choose
to update and upgrade my understanding of modern digital
photography. It was and still is a great journey. Even if I am primarily
interested in architectural photography, my actual portfolio, I am
also interested in portraits, events and sport photography.
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Fashion – Fashion Editorial
Elliott MacDonald
Ideas are the seeds of our thoughts. They start small and we watch
them grow into ostensible communication as we observe and
manifest them through art.
Elliott is a multidisciplinary designer and photographer. Having
worked for a growing client list in the Montreal region, he brings a
wealth of experience from setup, to post capture processes.
elliottjeffrey.photography
instagram.com/elliott_jeffrey
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Documentary
Freddy Arciniegas
Freddy Arciniegas is a Montreal-based photographer and designer,
whose work is mostly focused on documentary with an intention
to portray truthfully regular life, its social, cultural and everyday
phenomenons in all their complexity.
Born in Colombia, Freddy started working as a graphic designer.
His passion for composition, geometry and lines has been captured
in his architecture photography. Freddy is most interested in finding
complex, colorful images that transcend the documentary specifics
of the moment and hopefully evoke stories in the minds of
his viewers.
freddyarciniegas.com
arcpixel.tumblr.com
instagram.com/arcpixel
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Editorial Portraiture
Germán Moreno
Germán is a multidisciplinary creative. He graduated from Concordia
University in 2014. After university, he realizes photography is his medium of
excellence, which leads him to enroll at Dawson College, in the Commercial
Photography program. In early 2016, Germán started to photograph
exclusively on film with an old Nikon FM2 that his father gave him as a gift.
Finding new meaning in photography, he starts running a project called
O B T U R A , which consists in fashion-forward portraits of everyday people
shot exclusively on film.
His work was recently acknowledged with the 2016 RGD In-house
Design Award for a documentary he had the chance to art direct and
photograph. During his career, Germán has collaborated with retailers,
musicians, startups, and agencies including: Dead Obies,
Wayne Tennant, The Liquor Store Band, Dynamo, Dynamic Montreal,
Structube, MegaBrands, amongst others.
cargocollective.com/geemoreno
instagram.com/obtura_photo_journal
germamoreno@gmail.com
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Architecture
Joan Omalley
Joan moved to Montreal from the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region
of Quebec in 2003. Her professional work includes photography,
web development and exhibit design. Her interest in architectural
photography comes from her work in a medical museum and the
challenges dealing with material culture. She wanted to study the
history of institutions from built sources, rather than relying solely
on written texts. A close examination of the photographs sheds light
on the economic constraints of the buildings’ construction and the
aesthetic parameters of its builder and their culture.
For this exhibition, her objective was to create the impression of the
late 19th century processes using lighting styles and perspectives
that photographers used in that era. Her hope was to bring to her
work some of the richness and timelessness associated with many
older photographs. The photographs are a mixture of traditional and
contemporary architecture. In the traditional spaces the dirt and grime,
electrical wires and plaster cracks are not such a shocking contrast;
they become patina.
joan.imelda.omalley@gmail.com
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Portraiture – Environmental Portraiture
Katerine Guertin
Katerine has owned her photography studio for almost 8 years and
has worked as a photographer or assistant for other independent
studios.
What she likes most about this job is to work with people she does
not know at all before a project and to succeed in creating a link
with them. To succeed in making them feel comfortable enough to
have the impression of having immortalized the person in what it he
or she is of more true and simple. It’s when she presents the photos
to these clients and that she really feels good, and to be in the right
place in her life.
She is constantly looking for new projects, innovative ideas, new
challenges. So give her a call!
katerinephotoartiste.com
katerinephotoartiste@gmail.com
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Portraiture – Editorial Portraiture
Mauricio Lima
Mauricio is mostly funny, easy going, warm hearted and a bit geek.
He has been learning and practicing visual arts since ages and his
passion grew to a point he moved from a successful Engineering and
Business management career to Photography.
He believes every shot is an awesome journey where his both
technical and artsy brains fight and kiss along the way and both
learn on each step.
Mauricio loves everything in the process starting on planning,
capturing the moment and processing the digital canvas until the
result is a perfected form of personal and emotional connection
with the viewer.
mauriciolimaphoto.com
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Portraiture
Maxence Bilodeau
Graduating from Dawson College in the Commercial Photography Program
at age sixty? Yes it’s possible. I’m not the first one to do it nor will I be the
last; another living proof that there is no age to become a photographer.
With this program in Commercial Photography did I enjoy taking millions
of pictures, trying to capture an emotion, using the light to create an
ambiance, spending hours with an inspiring person that accepts to be
frozen in time through my lens, spending many more hours in front of a
computer trying to repair the damage done at the moment of the image
capture!
Where will I go from now? Not a clue. I’ve been a TV reporter for thirty-five
years, a TV cameraman/editor for ten years and a TV host here and there
throughout my career. One day, I will certainly retire from my day job.
Then anything can happen, possibilities are endless. Become a full-fledged
commercial photographer or a personal photographer for the elected
few?For now, I feel the need to sit back and later consider my options.
And I’m not leaving this lively College without warmly thank each and every
member of the Commercial Photography Program for their great work and
for enduring me throughout these wonderful years.
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Fashion
Melissa Guerra
After many years working in administration, I decided to follow my
true calling: Photography. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is to do
what you love, not what you think you’re supposed to do. I was born
and raised in good old Montreal. I’m a lover of colors, lines, graphics
and anything dramatic. People, fashion and movies are what inspire
me the most.
“Keep your heels, head & standards high.” – Coco Chanel
melgphoto.com
instagram.com/melgphotos
facebook.com/melgphoto
melg@live.ca
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Advertising – Real Estate
Moe Labade
Since 2010, Mohamed Al-Labade has been photographing
everything from concerts to corporate events, fashion, portraits,
sports and everything in between. In 2013 he was hired as a full-time
in-house photographer at one of Montreal’s hottest venues, New
City Gas, and has photographed some of the worlds most notorious
DJs, including David Guetta, Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren. That
year he was placed on MTL Blogs top concert photographers list.
Having retired from this fast-paced industry, he now pushes the
boundaries of his photography to real estate agents, interior
designers and architects; and creating conceptual advertisement
photography by putting together creative sets for brand names.
moelabadephotography.com
instagram.com/moelabade
facebook.com/moelabadephotography
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Architecture – Portraiture
Pam Duns
When I got my first camera as a teenager it was like a kind of
magical device that instantly became a part of my life, my form of
expression. I used photography as a means of self-discovery and
as a way of exploring the world around me. I never cease to be
inspired by images and the spontaneity involved in every photo
shoot. Thanks to the commercial photography program at Dawson
College, I now have a range of technical skills and an enhanced
understanding of the business side of this fascinating domain.
instagram.com/pamdunspix
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Editorial – Portraiture
Roman Potachenski
My Interest in photography comes from my background in dance
and industrial design.
In this portfolio, I wanted to express emotions, feelings, mood and
psychology of people whether these were portraits or dance shots.
I would like to thank all my teachers and colleagues for helping me
master my work.
flickr.com/photos/romanpotachenski
roman.potachenski@gmail.com
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Portraiture – Jewelry Editorial
Soha Isaatafreshi
I couldn’t draw. I had all those images in my mind but I couldn’t draw them.
I discovered the black magic box (a Yashica) in my sister’s room. MAGIC! You
just needed to press the button to draw! I don’t know how young I was, but
naive enough to look for the picture inside the camera. So my first pictures?
exposed film!
“When I grow up, I will make a camera that shows pictures immediately
on the back”. I grew up and didn’t invent anything. I gave up drawing until
somebody invented my dream camera. Ever since, I have drawn my images
with the magic box.
Photography is magic, human beings are magic, a portrait of a human is
even more magical. The magic is that you can either capture the person’s true
self or create a new person.
“You probably CAN draw, you don’t know it”, a fine art teacher told me once.
sohaphotography.com
instagram.com/sohaphoto
info@sohaphotography.com
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Product Editorial
Susan Paige
A passionate adventurer with ambitious goals, Susan Paige is driven
to take a taste of everything life has to offer. She loves art & fashion,
food & travel and of course photography. During the years she lived
in different regions across Canada working in the culinary industry,
she bought her first DSLR and began shooting non-stop in her free
time. Since then, she has made Montreal her home for the past 5
years. While her current day job as a fashion designer keeps her
busy, she enjoys spending her free time immersed in photography,
music and art. She is looking to pursue new projects that combine
these skills and curiosities while continuing to travel but on a more
international level. Her photography experience has made an
exploration from extreme sports to fashion collaborations, art ideas
and travel. Most recently she has found herself interested in product
photography bringing in her graphic eye to the mix as well.
instagram.com/susanpaigephotography
susanpaigephotography@gmail.com
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Food & Lifestyle
Sylvie Li
Sylvie Li is a HEC Montréal graduate in Business Administration in
2014, but decided to pursue a career in photography. Her passion
grew while traveling around North America, Europe and Asia. She
now specializes in food, travel and lifestyle photography.
Sylvie shoots everything she finds beautiful and inspiring in
everyday life. Be it travels, food, still life or products. Her keen and
sharp eye for good lighting and details makes her work ideal for daily
inspiration, magazines, commercial websites and advertisement.
Clients and publications include: Zeste Magazine, Ricardo
Magazine, Rutabaga Magazine, l’École de ballet supérieure du
Québec, le Journal Les Affaires, Frenco, DDMamba, Véro Magazine,
Dinette Magazine and Trois fois par jour.
sylvieli.com
instagram.com/sylvieli
sylvie@sylvieli.com
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Portraiture
Tavish Kincaid
As soon as I picked up a camera I haven’t been able to put it down;
photography has always been an integral part of my life, and now
my camera feels like an extension of me.
Subjects that drive me to shoot are portraiture, fashion and travel.
I’ve always enjoyed shooting portraiture and fashion for the same
reason that both concepts express so much diversity. Each face
and each expression given are so different that an image is never
the same. This kind of photography is one that embodies the
remarkable uniqueness and homogeneity of human kind. For each
and every one of us are different, yet we all hold something similar.
tavishk.com
giraffagraphy.tumblr.com
instagram.com/taller_than_a_giraffe
tavish.m.k@gmail.com
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Dawson College
Commercial Photography
AEC Fall 2016
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