About
Doting father to four Boston Terriers, Shawn is also owner and photographer at Toronto's (Milton, Ontario) Renaissance Studios Photography. Exploring his passion for the surreal and conceptual, he works with musicians, bands and individuals to create haunting images for promotion, and for fun. Originally having studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design (Drawing & Painting) he later explored the realms of Graphic Design, where his passion for photography and photo manipulation developed. Mainly self-taught in his photography and photoshop skills, Shawn continues to experiment with new techniques to create the impossible in a photo.
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Works
Regret - "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." – David Grayson
Overboard - From The Bridge Band Promo / Press
Walk Off The Earth - Band Promo
Skin - "You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.” – Chuck Palahniuk
The Morning After The Circus Left Town - "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." - C.S. Lewis
Fireflies - "I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing." – Tori Amos
Belonging - "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." – Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The Price You Pay
The Two Thieves - “We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.” – Fulton Oursler
Wilderness of Intuition - "You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself." – Alan Alda
The Inside Out of Thinking - “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” – John Cage
The Puppet - "First we make our habits, then our habits make us.” – Charles C. Noble
Faith Grows
Bottled Up Emotions - "A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” – Oscar Wilde
Karma - "Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it." - Sakyong Mipham
Elevation - "The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man." – Author Unknown
The Shepherd - "When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the shepherd and stop counting sheep." – Author Unknown
Enjoy The Silence
Hello, December
Worry - "Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Into The Dark - "If heaven and hell decide That they both are satisfied Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark" – Death Cab for Cutie, from the song "I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Walk Off The Earth Band / Press Promo
Let Them Eat Cake
The Pursuit of Happiness - "We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us." – Thomas Merton
Sing - "To draw, you must close your eyes and sing." – Pablo Picasso
Of Mice and Men - "Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other" – John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Bedtime Stories
Train of Thought - Eventually, a good idea will hit you.
Walkin' The Dogs
The Abduction - Inspired by "Leave My Body" by Florence and the Machine
Domestic Chaos - "Chaos is a friend of mine" – Bob Dylan
Fall In Place - From The Bridge Band / Press Promo
Sea & Shore - From The Bridge Band / Press Promo
On The Floor - From The Bridge Band / Press Promo
Canary In A Coal Mine – "Unbeing dead isn't being alive." – E.E. Cummings
Fishing For Memories - "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." – Henry David Thoreau