Jack Wayne, Fine Art Photography
Humans Remain: Photographic Evidence of Life on Earth
2018 Exhibition Propeller Gallery Toronto

Time After Time

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Time After Time Siesta Key Fl 2017

Portraits

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Roberto Monticello, The Mayor of Meatpacking, Chelsea NYC, November 2017
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Traveler with Dog and Cello Coney Island NYC 2010
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BBQ Man Sarasota FL 2018
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Our Waiter Paris 2010

Seen on the Street

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Elmo Takes a Break Manhattan 2008
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Laurie at the Circus with Esme and Daniel 2008
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Man with Tattoos and Teddy Bear Coney Island 2012
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Football on the Beach Orchard Park Bronx New York 2008
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Tractor Pull Burks Falls ON 2016
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Steve Upton, The Music Man, Siesta Key FL 2018
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Rehearsal in Bryant Park New York City 2010
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Poker in the Park Orchard Park Bronx New York 2010

First comes love..........
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Dancers Polish Street Fair Rocesvalles/Toronto 2017
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Dancers Fall Fair Burks Falls Ontario 2016
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Napoleon and Shawna on the beach Orchard Park Bronx New York 2010
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Couple at Polish Festival Rocesvalles/Toronto 2016
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Upside Down Kiss
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Child in Mirror Roncesvalles/Toronto 2017
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Young Family Roncesvalles/Toronto 2017
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Baby taught how to use the cellphone Siesta Key FL 2017
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Father and Twins Coney Island NYC 2010





Signed and numbered images from the 2018 Humans Remain exhibition are available for purchase. They are printed on Fine Art Paper, professionally matted, framed and ready to hang. 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
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Landed Gentry
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Mixing the centuries
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This movement is growing.
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Modern Canada
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Polish Family
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The explanation
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Family's day out
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Dancing in the street
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King of the universe
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Walker
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Problem solver
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Heavenly Dreams
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Mother and daughter
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Food
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More food
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Popeyes now open
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Connected couple
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Angela from Costco
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Growing family
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Street dancing
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Observers
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Sister for sale
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Woman with umbrella in fruit drink
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Happy woman
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Rhythm&Motion
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Woman walking
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Dog walking
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Friendly celebrant
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A Buddhist monastery is close by
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Drink from a fruit
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Conversation
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Yummy Food
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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
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Streetscape
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Woman in a hurry
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Unloading a truck
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Praying for email
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Photography salesman trying to sell me the camera that I was using to take this photo
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Virtual Reality
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Explanation in the photography museum
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New Doggie
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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.
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Lunch date in the park
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Much loved dog companion
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Budding photographer
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Lunch on 55th St.
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Beautifying the neighbourhood
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Yoga Outfit?
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Vendor Lexington Ave. PopUP Street Fair
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Cooking on a grill
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Free food samples
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Interesting division of labour
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Woman with notepad
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Decorative soaps
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Street musician waiting to start
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Lovers, happy to be photographed
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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

Contact Jack Wayne by email jwayne@cspi.org
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

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