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AKA Kid With Camera An installation of photography by David Waldman Ten years of the rock n roll audience in Toronto, 2001-2011. Where:  Oz Studios, 134 Ossington Avenue, Toronto When:  November 3rd - 18th, 2011 A Decade of Toronto Rock Concerts: 300 Snaps into the crowd Since 2001 photographer David Waldman has documented Toronto rock audiences, lighting the venues and frenzied crowds with a signature technique of pre-installed wireless flashes. You can view selected snapshots of what he caught in over 800 concerts at this historic installation entitled AKA Kid With Camera, which displays nearly 300 images from Waldman’s vast archive. It is a veritable chronicle of the movements, faces and moments from a decade of continuous, compulsive concert-going. Waldman’s odyssey through the surging indie music scene has yielded a treasure trove of pictures memorializing the famous and the unknown, the dazed and confused.  Look hard and you may see faces you know, or people you wish you could forget. Waldman started prowling the music scene while still in high school (circa 2001). Armed at the outset with a primitive digital camera he became a fixture of the punk and indie-rock scene, honing his craft in smoky caverns and performance spaces, rubbing shoulders and head-banging with the people he was shooting. Instantly given the nick-name "Kid With Camera", his website was recognized from early on as the only place to see photos from fan and artist run concerts, years before everybody showed up with a camera in their hand. Waldman, a self-taught photographer, has spent the past ten years immersed in documenting live concerts. These photos serve as a backdrop to his life in the crowd. Though his preference remains for dim, available light in the manner of cinema vérité or classic reportage, over time he has developed the remote flash technique which he says allows him “to control and sculpt the space.” He belongs in the ranks of Gonzo-style photojournalists, who inject a personal perspective and autobiographical details into their work, shunning the pretension of purported objectivity. David Waldman has released a series of printed zines,  personal journals of his life as a music fan. He continues to work as a freelance photo-journalist and portrait photographer serving for exceptional talents like Fucked Up, Japanther, Aids Wolf and One Hundred Dollars. For more information or additional images, contact NOV3KIDWITHCAMERA@gmail.com PLEASE JOIN US for an opening night reception Thursday, November 3rd 2011, 7 PM to midnight Preview :         "The closest thing his generation has to Annie Leibovitz." - Dan Burke

269 Photos,
Fans of :
3 Tards,
Acid Reflux,
Against All Authority,
Against Me,
Aids Wolf,
Alexis On Fire,
Alkaline Trio,
An Albatross,
Anagram,
Anti Flag,
Antics,
Ataris,
BBQ,
Bedouin Soundclash,
Belvedere,
Big Wig,
Billy Talent,
Bjork,
Blood Brothers,
the Blow,
Bouncing Souls,
Brides,
Brutal Knights,
Bush League,
Captain Everything,
Captured by Robots,
Career Suicide,
Castle Music,
the Casualties,
Catl,
Cheap Suits,
Chixdiggit,
Class Assassins,
Closet Monster,
the Code,
Cold Blue Sky,
Comeback Kid,
Constable Brennen,
Courtesy Blush,
CPC Gangbangs,
Crystal Castles,
Cuff the Duke,
Da Larsonists,
Daglo Abortions,
Dan Deacon,
Darkest Hour,
Ddmmyyyy,
Death by Stereo,
Death From Above 1979,
Dillinger Escape Plan,
the Disraelis,
Downway,
the Explosion,
Face to Face,
Fifth Hour Hero,
Five Across The Eye,
the Flatliners,
the Forgotten,
Fucked Up,
Glassjaw,
Goldfinger,
Good Riddance,
Groin Fusion,
H2O,
the Heatskores,
Henri Fabergé and the Adorables,
Hot Water Music,
Japanther,
Jay Reatard,
Jay Spectre,
Kids On TV,
Krum Bums,
Matadors,
Leftover Crack,
Les Georges
Leningrad,
Lightning Bolt,
Living End,
LS Double D Cup,
Lullabye Arkestra,
Lunchmeat,
Mad Caddies,
the Mark Inside,
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes,
Metric,
Midtown,
Misconduct,
Mission of Burma,
Moneen,
Monotonix,
Mustard Plug,
Northwest Division,
New Found Glory,
New Mexican Disaster Squad,
Ninja High School,
No Age,
No Dynamics,
Out of your Mouth,
the Oath,
One Hundred Dollars,
One Line Drawing,
One Size Fits Most,
Protest the Hero, Pulley,
Pissed Jeans,
the Pixies, the Presets,
Propagandhi,
Q and not U,
Ruby Coast,
Rusty,
Rammer,
Rancid,
Real McKenzies,
Reel Big Fish,
Reggie and the Full Effect,
Republic of Safety,
Rise Against,
River City Rebels,
Romeo Liquor Store,
Strike Anywhere,
Suicide Machines,
the Sainte Catherines,
SNFU,
Social Code,
Spiral Beach,
Spookey Ruben,
Teen Anger,
Teenagers,
This is Hell,
the Threat,
Thursday,
the Used,
the Video Dead,
Vivian Girls,
the Weirdies,
Woodhands,
Yacht,
Yellow Card,
the Zoobombs, and
Zebrahead.