Sabrina Maltese Photography

2010-12-13T18:26:00.000-08:00

colder than here right now

Photorama

2010-12-13T18:00:00.000-08:00

So, I am very late on this news. I recently had two pieces in Photorama, Gallery TPW's annual fundraising exhibition. I heard that these pieces sold. If it was you who bought them, please contact me—I would love to thank you properly. Above is a photo of my works in the show (taken from the Gallery's blog).

babies

2010-10-08T10:53:00.000-07:00

Vanessa and Dylin eating eating ice cream at Kawartha Dairy.

Holga. Blue flash. Bam.

holga first attempts

2010-09-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

I borrowed my pal Elena's Holga for a long weekend at the cottage. Above are the results of my first time ever using a Holga. Only after scanning my negatives and wondering why everything was out of focus, did I realize I had it on bulb setting the whole time. I still think they are pretty neat.

Green Crayons

2010-08-11T16:03:00.000-07:00

I recently shot film stills for Dan Montgomery and Kazik Radwanski's new short film Green Crayons (as seen above). They have just released news that the film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September.

CONGRATULATIONS! Go Friends!

making a art

2010-08-06T06:22:00.000-07:00

scanner mishap.

Thank you Erika for allowing me to use your scanner at the last minute and in the process, make a art.

I went to Poland

2010-08-05T16:50:00.001-07:00

came back with not so great pictures...

Blurry Dan in the dragons den. Spooky.

Vines on the ceiling at Chimera Salad Bar.

Massolit Books & Cafe. Best place.

Hey Look, Pictures!

2010-07-14T19:10:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple photos from Germany.

Kaffee Stark in Hamburg, Germany

A greenhouse in Hamburg, Germany

group huddle

2009-12-09T18:07:00.000-08:00

Dylin, Vanessa and Dan, at our cottage, sitting on Nonna's orange chair

Life has been very busy and this blog has not.
Got a new job, stopped taking photos. Been working at new job for three months, starting to take photos again.

mosquito's bite my face

2009-08-30T11:57:00.000-07:00

my mom picking yellow plums on a rainy day in Niagara Falls

experiments

2009-08-16T14:50:00.000-07:00

I have been doing some experimenting with my webcam. I have been attempting to photograph my room to see if the camera could capture a good tonal range.

Here are two of the images:
So far I have concluded the image quality to be not so good, but I am pretty impressed how well it captured the highlights and shadows, especially in the window image. Neat!

On another note... I have a new project on the go and I am looking for new locations to shoot (not with my webcam, with my real camera). I am looking for domestic spaces that get a lot of natural light. If you wouldn't mind me photographing things and rooms in your home for about an hour, please e-mail me at maltese.sabrina (at) gmail (dot) com.

fruit flies in the shower

2009-08-11T14:54:00.001-07:00

This is a piece of a photograph I took of a mustard field on the way to my cottage. The photo in it's entirety will be on my website soon, once I finish creating my new work in progress gallery (yay!) For now, only a small taste of the mustard.

Better Late Than Never

2009-08-09T19:17:00.001-07:00

a weekend of 6 am wake-ups, torrential downpours, wet photographs, nervous breakdowns, corn on the cob eating, people meeting, art seeing.
Here are some photos of my booth at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition...

Here is my table close up.

One wall gets a close-up.

A really flattering picture of my parents in my tent.

Exhibition - 3 Women / 3 Cameras - Personal Space

2009-08-03T20:00:00.000-07:00

I am showing some work in a group show at Drabinsky Gallery this month. Some of my Memoria photographs will be featured, as well as work from two other photographers/friends, Lizzie Vickery and Talia Shipman (they are really good!) Here are the details . . .

3 Women / 3 Cameras - Personal Space

Photographs by Talia Shipman, Sabrina Maltese and Lizzie Vickery

Drabinsky Gallery

August 4 - 29

Opening - August 15, 2-5 pm

114 Yorkville Ave. Toronto.

More info at www.drabinskygallery.com

Here are some photos that will be in the show . . .

Left: Mine, Centre: Talia, Right: Lizzie.

Hopefully you can stop by and see the show, or maybe I will see you at the opening, that would be even better.

cottage

2009-07-20T16:26:00.001-07:00

We went to the cottage, here are some pictures.

a weird mix of sun and cloud

Danny on the deck

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

2009-07-07T15:21:00.000-07:00

Come look at art and Visit me here this weekend.
I am booth #713 in the Purple section.

Ps. my sister Vanessa also has a booth, she is a really good painter. Visit her at booth #219!

2009-07-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

looking down from the top stair in Mount Royal Park, Montreal

strawberry fields

2009-07-02T19:09:00.001-07:00

We went strawberry picking and made jam. 90 year old grandma style.

my first roll of 35mm in 3 years.

hi blog

2009-07-02T18:57:00.000-07:00

I have been neglecting my blog lately. I have been busy, busy getting my work ready for the Outdoor Art Exhibition. I thought it was about time for an update.

Here is something I have made between when I last updated and now...

Business cards - finally! If you want, I can give you some.

2009-06-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

some that didn't make the cut

2009-05-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

something i really wanted to work

So long, favorite place

2009-05-11T13:58:00.000-07:00

I photographed my grandmothers home for the last time. A new family moved in on Saturday. I'll never be here again. Here are some images.

in

2009-05-11T13:52:00.000-07:00

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
Nathan Phillips Square
July 10-12
Booth # 713

come see me, i'll be there.

she is moving to a new home

2009-04-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

Nonna Pina.
the last backyard party on Richgrove.

fibre kids

2009-04-28T09:02:00.000-07:00

two kids I photographed in the park
I was looking through my a sketchbook from three years ago. I found this.

2009-04-28T08:25:00.000-07:00

light patterns

2009-04-20T09:22:00.000-07:00

mom. photographed the day before her birthday.

2009-04-20T09:18:00.000-07:00

i am making new things.
condensation on my kitchen window.

found

2009-03-26T18:07:00.001-07:00

This is a photograph of my mom as a child. I just really wanted to share it.

2009-03-23T12:48:00.000-07:00

Lena at my kitchen table

weird scans

2009-02-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

my scanner reacting to the sea
Cinque Terre, Italy

2009-02-23T10:52:00.000-08:00

Vanessa with cake at the old apartment

2009-02-16T18:07:00.000-08:00

nice sills

yellow on blue

2009-02-06T14:36:00.001-08:00

Erika J on Vanessa M's bed

storm clouds

2009-01-31T14:39:00.000-08:00

a piece of my uncles house taken from the garden

reviewed

2009-01-31T14:29:00.000-08:00

A review of my exhibition of Memoria at Alliance Francaise. Click link below:

Memoria Review

I can't understand most of what's written because it's in french. If anyone can translate for me I would really appreciate it. I tried to use one of those free translator websites, didn't work out too well.

2008-11-26T20:23:00.000-08:00

Nest, from the series Memoria

I have this piece (above) in Photorama at Gallery TPW. The exhibition is a fund raiser for the gallery.

"PHOTORAMA 2008 features over 80 artists offering the best in boundary-pushing, contemporary photo-based art at accessible prices year after year. Most works are priced below $600, making it easy to expand your art collection, or just go for that impulse buy."
Opening Reception: Friday November 28, 6-9 pm.

and...

Blue Walls and Bed with Sweater, both from the series Quiescent

I have these two pieces in the Ryerson Gallery Holiday Show and Sale.
Exhibition Runs: November 27 - December 13
Reception and Silent Auction: Thursday, December 11, 7-10 pm.

Hope to see you out at one, or both!

view from the attic bedroom

2008-11-23T09:56:00.001-08:00

The Crooked Tree, Sonning Eye, England

A match made in heaven?

2008-11-17T13:17:00.000-08:00

Two peas in a pod?

an article about me... well my exhibition

2008-11-17T13:07:00.001-08:00

From the Ryersonian. First review ever.

it's pretty here

2008-09-28T09:45:00.000-07:00

Monterosso Al Mare - Cinque Terre

Exhibition

2008-09-21T14:14:00.001-07:00

I am having an exhibition in two weeks.

October 9 - November 1. OPENING RECEPTION - October 9, 6-9 p.m at Ryerson Gallery

80 Spadina Ave, Suite 305

I will be showing images from my series, Memoria. Maybe I will see you there? Hope so.

away

2008-08-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

Going across the sea. Be back when the leaves start to change.

2008-07-29T19:31:00.000-07:00

don't eat these

badlands

2008-07-20T10:33:00.000-07:00

for Paul

2008-07-13T20:48:00.000-07:00

a weekend of nostalgia

Fire Hair

2008-07-09T15:36:00.000-07:00

No cherries this year.

Sonning Eye

2008-07-03T21:03:00.000-07:00

Here in five weeks. This time with water.

summer is halfway through

2008-06-23T18:28:00.000-07:00

last years experiment, this years inspiration.

2008-06-17T19:51:00.000-07:00

Nonna Cathy in a Newmarket kitchen

Success

2008-06-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

Found a scanner. Regular updates from now on.

2008-05-18T21:51:00.000-07:00

a bed. me. soft focus.

living

2008-05-13T19:36:00.000-07:00

Vanessa Floating

2008-04-28T11:38:00.000-07:00

an ending.

heart pounding.

transcendence.

The Divide

2008-04-20T19:02:00.001-07:00

Bye Nonno

close

2008-04-12T14:10:00.000-07:00

I felt summer

A New Post. Finally.

2008-03-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

This is me showing off how I feel lately

2008-01-14T14:34:00.000-08:00

"you take the most memorable photographs of nothing"

Kissmas

2007-12-21T10:12:00.001-08:00

Home for Christmas.

Not so major-less

2007-12-09T19:59:00.000-08:00

Dear Nonna and Nonno, I am going to invade your house with my camera for the next 4 months, I hope that you don't mind. I promise that I won't take the horse off the floor and put it on the coffee table again.

A return to this, but more fragile. I hope everything will work out. They did get new couches, I hope that won't be a problem.

major-less

2007-12-05T21:16:00.001-08:00

Goodbye Major. Sorry that I have to leave you. I am just not that into you right now.

2007-11-26T21:26:00.000-08:00

Hello. I am going to post photos here now for you to look at. This is from a series where I used typographic grids as templates to compose photographs.