A series of long-exposure photographs taken at night in nine different rooms of the abandoned Beach Motel in Etobicoke. These images were inspired by the idea of anticipated nostalgia relating to older architecture and structures.
The Beach Motel was closed in 2009 when the City of Toronto decided to increase their land taxes from $80 000 to $380 000. It will soon be demolished in order to allow the construction of a high-rise condominium building. This process has already captured several other motels that once belonged to this "vacation strip" on the shores of Lake Ontario. Next door to Beach Motel is the, also abandoned, Shore Breeze and the still operating Casa Mendoza.
Model: Sally Hood Ranscombe
These photos will be showing at OCADU starting August 3, 2011.
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