Patrick Cummins (photographer)
Patrick Cummins graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1982), specializing in drawing and photography. He obtained a BA in fine art and philosophy (1983/1984) and an MA in philosophy (1986) from the University of Guelph, writing his thesis on the production and reception of meaning in photographic images.
He has undertaken numerous projects as a photographer exploring the conventions of documentary practice and participated in exhibitions at various galleries (1981 to present). His work has appeared in publications, books and films, and on many websites.
He has photographed aspects of Toronto’s built environment since 1978, as part of his Collations project, conducting comparative studies in time and space, documenting the transformation and survival of ordinary residential and commercial structures that constitute the fabric of the city’s many neighbourhoods. This work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, books and films, most notably The Impermanence of the Ordinary (Directed by Dale Sood, 2013)[1], and on many websiteshttps://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/2012/06/the-impermanence-of-the-ordinary-full-frontal-t-o/. It has appeared in Heritage Toronto award-winning projects, most notably, in his own book Full Frontal T.O.: Exploring Toronto’s Architectural Vernacular (2012), with text by Shawn Micallef, published by Coach House Books, which was also a finalist in the Toronto Book Awards[2]. His work can be found in private collections and in the permanent holdings of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the City of Toronto Archives.
Between 1986 and 2018, he worked with the former City of Toronto, former Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and current City of Toronto’s archival programs, specializing as an Archivist working with photographic, cartographic and architectural records. He was curator of five major archival exhibitions, Engineering Toronto: City Maps, 1834-1900 (1993), Your Home, Our City: 100 Years of Public Control Over Private Space (2001), Signs of Urban Life: a History of Visual Communication in Toronto (2004), A Work in Progress: Preserving Toronto’s Architectural Record (2007), and Life on the Grid: 100 years of Street Photography in Toronto (2013).
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