Ronald Stewart

Ronald is a Montreal based photographer who likes to photograph what he finds in his city and in the surrounding countryside.

"Fascinated by movie and still cameras from an early age, I eventually settled for the 35mm still camera by my twenties. Unswervingly passionate about colour work, I mostly snapped slides and printed them on Cibachrome. More than twenty years later, while in a bus terminal, I spotted a cool-toned black and white poster of a couple kissing under the lights of an illuminated tramway. This night photograph proved a sudden revelation for me as it captured an atmosphere that I knew could not be replicated, either technically or emotionally, with colour. I delved into a study of the masters of black and white photography: Doisneau, Bresson, Brandt, Kertesz and, in particular, Brassai. I learned to appreciate the beauty of the tonalities and the apparent simplicity of this medium. A move into medium-format photography was indicated. And now, whenever I have doubts about my work, I always refer back to the prints of these masters for subtle hints of what might be missing in my own. I'm also a perpetual student of the masters of painting and believe that, to some extent, this has also influenced my photograp...

University: History