DAVE GREEN
Dave Green (1963) was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in the small Southern Ontario city of Owen Sound. In the early 1980s he moved back to Toronto to study photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University). He has worked as a house painter, a fibreglass worker, a photography technician and as an educator. He served as an instructor of photography at Ryerson’s Chang School of Continuing Education and has taught photography to youth affected by violence. He has travelled extensively throughout Canada, the United States and Europe, always with a camera.
“Looking at some of these photographs now, the prescience startles and the storefront facade windows, the tired barren highways, the sombre diners seem less a lament or nostalgic yearning for a different time, which is what I thought back then, than a crystal ball, sometimes literally reflecting, but often revealing a life marked by deep solitude. It is as though Dave saw, understood and then showed us what would happen to us all before life hit. Dave Green has photographed a world already disappearing like a picture not quite fixed, time remorseless and unrelenting. Time doing its thing.” — From the Introduction to his book Personal (Dumagrad Books, 2017) by LP Farrell
Three in furs, Toronto 1997 © Dave Green
Saturday night at the tavern, Toronto 1987 © Dave Green
The Handbag, Toronto 1988 © Dave Green
A PPC Red Rocket streetcar on Queen Street West, Toronto 1982 © Dave Green
Sharon In her room, Toronto 1984 © Dave Green
Breffni at the Greeks, Kensington Market, Toronto 1988 © Dave Green
Alicia and her dog, Toronto 1984 © Dave Green
One night at The Cameron House, Toronto 1987 © Dave Green
From my hotel window, Cesky Krumlov, Czechoslovakia 1991 © Dave Green
The Crowbar Lunch, Toronto 2004 © Dave Green
One afternoon in Paris, Paris 1991 © Dave Green
A moment at the Laundromat, Toronto 1988 © Dave Green
The street cats of Athens, Athens 1999 © Dave Green
Stock cars and Coca Cola, Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island 1988 © Dave Green
The Rio Theatre on Yonge Street, Toronto 1981 © Dave Green
A night at the movies, Prague 1991 © Dave Green
Alone at the diner counter, Toronto 1989 © Dave Green
The Tasty Restaurant on Bloor Street West, Toronto 1988 © Dave Green
Moving On, Grey County, Ontario 1984 © Dave Green
A lone rider in the rain, Highway 401, Ontario 2001 © Dave Green
Dave Green photographs are printed on Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique 310 GSM, satin finish paper, signed and dated.
8” x 10” Open Edition
11” x 14” Open Edition
16” x 20” Open Edition