Artist Statement

A Portrait of Bathurst Street is a study about a street stuck in the past. The history of immigrant communities and the scars of an ever-changing cityscape have left Bathurst forgotten and overlooked. Yet when it came to a pandemic, where stores were closed, and people were left isolated it did what it's always done, being the community channel for all the neighbourhoods it intersects and the people who call it home. I am one resident who wanted to share my perspective in this 64-page photo book, of where it's been, where it's at and where it's going.

Yarden Haddi 2021