Pillow Fight 2015 in Toronto

April 4th, 2015: An estimated of 18,000 people joined the 2015 Pillow Fight which was held at the heart of downtown Toronto, Nathan Philip Square. Copyright © 2015 Shadab Shahrokh Hai. All rights reserved.

Network for the Elimination of Police Violence

Thursday March 19, 2015. Organizers from “Network for the Elimination of Police Violence” spoke out against the racial profiling and brutality that continues to plague the neighborhoods and communities in Toronto today in front of the old Toronto Police Service at 40 College Street. Copyright © 2015 Shadab Shahrokh Hai. All rights reserved.

How much I’ve missed the golden hour….

This years winter has been nothing but brutal. Just like last year, the feeling was the same– living in the “Ice Age’. But on March 2nd, it all started to change slowly. Woke up that morning and was surprised to see the sunlight coming through my window. Couldn’t help but forced myself to go out […]

Toronto protests Bill C-51

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my photo blogs. Since I’m on my fourth and final semester at Seneca College, I’ve been busy with lots of projects and assignments. Yesterday was quite an interesting day. The reason I say interesting is because of one particular issue– spot news. It all happened when […]

Official Rally of Je Suis Charlie at Nathan Philip Square, downtown Toronto.

Hundreds gathered at Nathan Philips Square in downtown Toronto, Jan 11th, 2014, for a rally in solidarity with the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, that took place on Jan 7 in Paris, France. Later the organizers and members of the Je Suis Charlie rally marched their way up from Yonge St. to Yonge-Dundas Square. Copyright © […]

My so called “Fashion Shoot” at High Park

I just became a student of Seneca College which was last year during Fall Semester 2013. Everything was new to me. New place, new people, environment, getting to know the college, etc… Then one day at Seneca library I met with Aida. She, too, was new to the college as well. We started chatting and sooner […]

Portrait shots at Seneca Studio

Taking portrait shots has always been fun for me. By that I mean in outdoors. However in studio, it’s a little bit different. You have all the lights set up, the background, the c-stands, etc… The editing process(in my case after taking photos in the studio), is simple and easy. Now most photographers would use […]

News Photo: Incident at York University Bus Loop

Dec 5th 2014. A female pedestrian was trapped under a TTC bus yesterday. The incident took place around 1:15pm at York University Go Bus Loop. She was freed from underneath the bus, with emergency crews using blocks to raise the vehicle off the ground. The woman suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries. Copyright © 2014 […]

The dreamy Niagara SkyWheell

The first time i visited Canada was in 2012. I was visiting here for 6 months. It was something I will cherish in my heart forever. Little did I know that I was going to come back after 8 months, which would be in August 28th 2013. Only then, I moved here as an international […]

Nuit Blanche Festival 2014

This was my second time at the Nuit Blanche festival. The first time I experienced it was in 2012. Though I was on my own on that night, but it was lot of fun capturing those moments. I couldn’t make it to the 2013s festival but this year I did and was accompanied by two […]