international group of photographers, writers, artists, filmmakers, videographers and designers

an aamora show
produced by aaron schwartz
photographs by maura wolfson-foster

Early evening in Toronto’s Sunnyside Pavillion (formerly the “Bathing Pavillion”) at Sunnyside Beach (formerly “Sunnyside Amusement Beach”) echoes with its rich history. Read here for more.

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Aaron Schwartz is the founder of aamora.com. You can see more of Aaron’s photography on his own photo site , and at jpgmag.com. You can check out his previous aamora posts here.

Aaron Schwartz is the founder of aamora.com. When we run short on submissions, he posts his own stuff. Be warned. You can see more of Aaron’s photography on his own photo site , and at jpgmag.com. You can check out his previous aamora posts here.

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[You can also watch this show on the aamora channel on Vimeo.]

Aaron Schwartz is the founder of aamora.com. You can see more of Aaron’s photography on his own photo site , and at jpgmag.com. You can check out his previous aamora posts here.

The Wooden Box

In the next room

On a blanket

On the floor

She sits

Bent over

Looking

Into a wooden box

I see:

Acorns

A drawing

Shiny something

A marble

Something written

Something drawn

She sees:

A world

Aaron Schwartz is the founder of aamora.com. He lives in Toronto, and is a photographer, actor, writer, lawyer and flaneur. This is his contribution to aamora’s “Secret Project”. You can see more of Aaron’s photography on his own photo site , and at jpgmag.com. You can check out his previous aamora posts here and others’ contributions to the Secret Project here.

Michael Van der Tol, member and co-administrator of aamora, asked our members to contribute their favorite shot of 2009. He created this slide show for you to enjoy. Thanks, Michael, and Happy New Year everyone!

Photographs by Aaron Schwartz with iPhone camera. Come back to see our year-end feature – aamora members’ “Favorites of 2009″ coming soon!

A hundred years ago, George M. Cohan was the man who owned Broadway.  Producer, director, writer, actor, singer, dancer, composer and lyricist, he was the son of two vaudeville performers from Rhode Island. Little George could sing and dance as soon as he could walk and talk. He quickly became an entertainment phenomenon, and changed the face of American show business.

A brash Irish-American kid loaded with talent and ambition, there was nothing he couldn’t talk himself into or out of.   You can find out more about Mr. Cohan
here (http://www.members.tripod.com/davecol8/ )
and here ( http://www.musicals101.com/cohan.htm ).

George M. Cohan was the Yankee Doodle Boy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yankee_Doodle_Boy ) whose statue stands in the middle of Times Square, now a Times Square he never knew. This new impossible environment is an ever-changing neverland of lights, sounds, people and pure energy. Not unlike Mr. Cohan.

I lived in New York when I was studying to be an actor and in the first few years of struggling to establish myself as a professional actor. I pounded the pavements looking for an agent, did showcase productions for free, bought the trade papers every week and went to every audition, waited tables and answered phones and sold rug shampoo on the sidewalks to support myself, and with all my youthful drive and excitement, I figured I owned that town just like George M. Cohan. Now, more than 35 years after I lived there, I go back to NYC as a tourist, with a blazer and comfortable shoes and a camera around my neck and look at Broadway through a different lens. But George M. Cohan has been there all the time.

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Aamora wishes all our American friends a HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Photograph by Aaron Schwartz

Happy Halloween!

…. So, you know that feeling when you go into the kitchen late at night and all of a sudden you get a sense that there’s somebody else there, and you turn around and see this looking through the window from the porch?:

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