Time’s Arrow

These two por­traits (of John Jackson of Toronto) were taken by Andrew Danson Danushevsky and are sep­a­rated by an inter­val of eigh­teen years. The first (at bot­tom) was part of Danushevky’s Toronto Portraits, a series of pho­tographs of strangers whom Danushevsky approached with an offer to pho­to­graph them in their homes. In the mid-1990s Danushevsky set out to find some of his orig­i­nal sub­jects and pho­to­graph them again. “I was inter­ested in aging, and in time pass­ing, so I tracked down as many of my orig­i­nal sub­jects as pos­si­ble,” he says. The first of the two pho­tos appeared on the cover of Geist 37. Both por­traits are included in Carte Blanche, a pho­tog­ra­phy anthol­ogy pub­lished by Magenta Publishing in 2006.