Jack Wayne as Seen by Bobbi Lane

Jack Wayne, Fine Art Photography

Five Projects


 Siesta Key: A Day at the Beach, February 23 2015

Time After Time

Spacebeach

Photographer

Getting Ready for the Day

May I?

Sunset on the Beach

Coney Island:  July 9th 2014

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Reading on the Beach

Traveler with Dog and Cello

Man with Tattoos and Teddy Bear

Model on the Beach

Portraits

Roberto Monticello, The Mayor of Meatpacking, Chelsea NYC, November 2017

BBQ Man Sarasota FL 2018

Our Waiter Paris 2010

Elmo Takes a Break Manhattan 2008

Daniel Relaxing 2013

Under Construction

Football on the Beach Orchard Park Bronx New York 2008

Tractor Pull Burks Falls ON 2016

Steve Upton, The Music Man, Siesta Key FL 2018

Rehearsal in Bryant Park New York City 2010

Poker in the Park Orchard Park Bronx New York 2010

First comes love..........

Dancers Polish Street Fair Rocesvalles/Toronto 2017

Dancers Fall Fair Burks Falls Ontario 2016

Napoleon and Shawna on the beach Orchard Park Bronx New York 2010

Couple at Polish Festival Rocesvalles/Toronto 2016

Upside Down Kiss

Child in Mirror Roncesvalles/Toronto 2017

Young Family Roncesvalles/Toronto 2017

Baby taught how to use the cellphone Siesta Key FL 2017

Father and Twins Coney Island NYC 2010

Signed and numbered images are available for purchase. They are printed on Fine Art Paper, professionally matted, framed and ready to for the wall. Time After Time is priced at $600.00, all other prints are $250. Sales taxes and shipping charges may apply. Contact jack.wayne@canadianscholars.ca.

Polish Street Fair 2017

The largest celebration of Polish culture in North America is held in Toronto every year. As with most events in the city the unique artifacts, costumes and food of an ethnic group are overwhelmed by the multicultural character of Toronto's population.

Photographs taken September 17th 2017

Landed Gentry

Mixing the centuries

This movement is growing.

Modern Canada

Polish Family

The explanation

Family's day out

Dancing in the street

King of the universe

Walker

Problem solver

Heavenly Dreams

Mother and daughter

Food

More food

Popeyes now open

Connected couple

Angela from Costco

Growing family

Street dancing

Observers

Sister for sale

Woman with umbrella in fruit drink

Happy woman

Rhythm&Motion

Woman walking

Dog walking

Friendly celebrant

A Buddhist monastery is close by

Drink from a fruit

Conversation

Yummy Food

Street was very clean the following day

New York City

New York City has a great deal of energy. Some of it spilled into my camera the weekend of October 27th, 2017

Streetscape

Woman in a hurry

Unloading a truck

Praying for email

Photography salesman trying to sell me the camera that I was using to take this photo

Virtual Reality

Explanation in the photography museum

New Doggie

Psychotherapist, Madison Square Park. She told me that she always covers herself up when being photographed to avoid the camera revealing anything about her. Two bags and a purse did the job.

Lunch date in the park

Much loved dog companion

Budding photographer

Lunch on 55th St.

Beautifying the neighbourhood

Yoga Outfit?

Vendor Lexington Ave. PopUP Street Fair

Cooking on a grill

Free food samples

Interesting division of labour

Woman with notepad

Decorative soaps

Street musician waiting to start

Lovers, happy to be photographed

In the ladieswear jungle

All photographs on this website are for sale.  Signed and numbered inkjet images on fine art paper up to frame size 18" x 24" are $249.00 (CAD). Please inquire about other sizes and prices by writing to jwayne@memoirspublications.com.

Jack Wayne
Personal
Propeller Gallery Exhibition June 14 to 25, 2017
Framed prints on fine art paper, signed and numbered, and large canvases are on display and available for purchase at Margis Pharmacy, 408 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto

Sunbathing in Barcelona November 1st, 2006, Inkjet print on canvas 36x18 $800. Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Reading on the Beach 2012 Fine Art Print Frame Size 18x24 $500.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Dancers Orchard Park New York 2012 Frame Size 18x24 Inkjet on fine art paper $500 Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Mason Lake Ontario Taken 2016 Medium Inkjet on Canvas Size 12x36 Value $500.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Football on the Dock Lake Magnetawan Ontario Taken 2016 Inkjet on canvas 12x36 $700.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Amish on the Beach Year 2015 Fine Art Print Frame Size 18x24 Value $500.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Curious Boy in Seoul 2007 Fine Art Print 29x29 $500.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices

Sweeping the Roof 2015 Inkjet on Canvas Size 40x30 Value $800.00 CAD

Yeshiva Boys in Paris 2008 Fine Art Print Frame Size 18x24 $500.00 CAD

Barcelona Artist 2006 Inkjet on Canvas Size 36 x 36 Value $800.00 CAD Please inquire about other sizes and prices.

Sailing Lake Ontario 2016 Inkjet on Canvas 36 x 24 $600 Other sizes and prices available on request

Man Smoking in Maiden Lane Windsor Inkjet on Fine Art Paper Frame size 21x27 $500

Tai Chi in the Garden Korea 2007 Inkjet on canvas 28x40 $800.00 Other sizes and prices available

Will take verbal abuse for money Bloor St. Toronto 2013 Inkjet on fine art paper Frame size 18x24

Contact Jack Wayne by email jwayne@cspi.org

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Jack Wayne

​ Bio: Jack Wayne was born in Canada. His first full-time job involved giving motivational talks to inmates of Ontario’s Mental Health Hospitals. Unfortunately the provincial government in the mid-1960s declared all Ontario residents to be sane and Jack found himself unemployed. He went back to school and was awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology.

Dr. Wayne was a professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto for over 30 years. After the third decade Jack realized that his academic career wasn’t working out. He declared his students to be fully educated and turned his attention to textbook publishing. His firm, Canadian Scholars’ Press, is now the leading Canadian-owned textbook publisher in Canada. It enjoyed remarkable growth after Jack sold the company in 2008. Dr. Wayne is a Past-President of the Association of Canadian Publishers.

Jack is now a fine art photographer. He is a member of the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts in Toronto. His solo exhibition, ‘Personal’ was on display in June, 2017. His 2018 solo show, "Humans Remain: Photographic Evidence of Life on Earth,"  was well attended, especially by children and their dog from the neighbourhood looking for bubble gum from the preceding exhibit.  In addition he has shown his images in juried and non-juried shows. In 2019 Jack's work will be exhibited in Florida and there will be a major new show--Humans Remain Part 2—at the Propeller Gallery in Toronto May 12 to 26. This exhibition will be part of the 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.



Artist Statement: Photography and Society
My art consists of photographic images of people as individuals and in social situations.
My background as a Sociologist compels my camera lens to look for the paradoxical in society and I often find images that invite examination and exploration of our individual and collective lives..
Puzzles can be at a small scale (Why is this man reading the magazine with a half-naked woman lying on the picnic table in front of him?) or delve into larger issues (Why is an Aryan-looking man following these Yeshiva boys down a street in Paris?)
The images are seldom posed, although I have conversations with many of the people I photograph. And some images have drawn my attention because the scene is so attractive I want to look at it over and over again and share it with others. 
In recent years I have focussed on street photography broadly understood.. I include In this category beach/water/people scenes in a variety of settings around the world.  In the broader vistas individuals are indistinct and the colour, movement and social milieu of the setting is more easily seen.  In close up images—on the water or on land—we experience more intimate life. 

Recent Activity
My current work is twofold. I take photographs that tell a story, and tell stories about images that I (and others) have created.
The photographs on this website have a narrative. The story is not always obvious but--I hope--worth contemplating.
Stories I construct from images generally focus on photographs of families. Recent lectures include ‘Revolution, War and Terrorism: Evidence From the Family Photo Album’ (Science for Peace, Toronto), ‘The Meaning of The Photograph: Unlocking the Secrets of the Family Album’ (Humanists of Sarasota Bay), ‘Understanding the Family Through Images,’ Pelican Cove (Florida).
 'Seeing America Through a Canadian Lens'  (Pelican Cove Photography Club). In February 2019 I will present a talk, In the Moment: Great Photography of the Modern Era, Part 2, in Sarasota FL