20 Square Meters Project by Dan Bannister
The great photographer Jay Maisel used to talk about color, light and gesture being three essential elements of a great image. With 20 square meters my goal was to create a body of imagery that transports viewers into the scene and allows them to imagine the whole range of smells and sensations of a summer outdoors. Late evening sun reflecting off a window, sun flares in your face, a full moon on a hot night, rain teeming down after a cloud filled and humid morning, calm summer nights with dogs barking and cars humming, the of burgers on a barbecue on a hot afternoon and the inevitable chill in the early morning as summer transitions to fall and eventually the first snow flakes of winter.
My home in Toronto is a penthouse of a converted candy factory on the city’s west side, across the street from the old Rawlings baseball glove factory. My patio is exactly 20 sq meters in size and it faces west towards High Park, the Polish neighbourhood of Roncevalles and Lake Ontario. It’s a five story building which is the perfect height to be able to see over the tops of surrounding homes and the street below and still be able to see weather patterns and clouds as they form over the vastness of the lake and the sunsets to the west. Over the course of the summer of 2017, I left my Leica SL with a 24-90 lens on the patio and made an image whenever some interesting light, clouds, skies or other inspiring scene came along.
My home in Toronto is a penthouse of a converted candy factory on the city’s west side, across the street from the old Rawlings baseball glove factory. My patio is exactly 20 sq meters in size and it faces west towards High Park, the Polish neighbourhood of Roncevalles and Lake Ontario. It’s a five story building which is the perfect height to be able to see over the tops of surrounding homes and the street below and still be able to see weather patterns and clouds as they form over the vastness of the lake and the sunsets to the west. Over the course of the summer of 2017, I left my Leica SL with a 24-90 lens on the patio and made an image whenever some interesting light, clouds, skies or other inspiring scene came along.
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