I was born on an elephant in India in 1963 to a Punjabi father and Welsh mother. In 1964 we immigrated to Montreal, Canada by ship with few possessions.Among those possessions was a box of black and white photographs.
Those photographs documented our stories as well as those of extended family members overseas, people we rarely saw over the years, but whose visits were precious and meticulously recorded by my father’s film cameras, albeit with a head or limb cut off here and there.

As a teenager, I often borrowed those cameras to take crude snapshots of people and occasions that were meaningful to me — something I still do today with my own camera gear. When I graduated from university with a BSc in Physical Therapy in 1985, my parents gifted me a film camera and although I switched to digital in 2005 just after the birth of my son, I have recently obtained two vintage film cameras and a Polaroid camera in an attempt to slow down the photography experience, embrace imperfection, and return to my analog roots.

Fun facts: I switched my camera setting from automatic to manual in 2016 and have been obsessed with natural light photography ever since; I hide behind the camera lens in social settings.

With no formal training, I am deeply grateful to local photography friends/mentors who have encouraged me over the years: Pasquale Stalteri, Ilana Block, Valerie Rosen and more recently, Linda Rutenberg, whose workshops and constructive criticism continue to challenge me.

Here you’ll find a collection of images I love that I have been collecting and moments I have been documenting.