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When not roaming the streets of Toronto searching for the most Gurskyesque photograph of the city, Derek anxiously contemplates finishing his dissertation. Fascinated in equal turn by the written and the visual, he has of yet refused to focus on one at the expense of the other. In a perfect world, he never will.

Chandra is an arts and entertainment photographer, although she is easily distracted by other jobs and seeing the world. When she is not covering film stories for this site, Chandra is watching movies and living happily in the Annex with her pet betta fish Lonestar.

When not roaming the streets of Toronto searching for the most Gurskyesque photograph of the city, Derek anxiously contemplates finishing his dissertation. Fascinated in equal turn by the written and the visual, he has of yet refused to focus on one at the expense of the other. In a perfect world, he never will.

Day-jobbing as a writer and web-site consultant pays the bills and when not being tragic, reading beckett, precariously dangling from a 5.10 - or trying to reverse engineer ketchup, francis tries his best not to bite the hands that feed him...and is mostly successful.

Jen is a fun-loving shutterbug, self-professed foodie, and raging Twitterholic hailing from Unionville. A Ryerson Journalism student, she enjoys clever puns, interrobangs, XKCD, and Reddit. She also likes going on adventures and eating at greasy spoons, especially simultaneously. Her favourite animals are dogs, tigers, hedgehogs, pandas, and elite-level ultimate Frisbee players. She reminds you to call 9-1-1 in case of emerjentse.

Operating under the premise that curiosity killed nothing, Jerrold Litwinenko has found himself bouncing around seemingly aimlessly but certainly happily. He's left Toronto a number of times and has joyfully returned home on different occasions as a food scientist, an ESL teacher, and most recently as an art and freelance photographer. Colourful things he's seen along the way can be seen on his photoblog at Photosapience Daily.

Between political lobby work and fiddling with old cameras, Jonathan finds his true pleasures in the absence of life amidst the abandoned buildings and derelict tunnels of Toronto's entropic spaces. Always curious about the city he loves, Jonathan wonders where the life is which we have lost in the living. Finding the imperfect nature of perfection in this urban strata, he feels it is the questions we seek, rather than the answers.

Lauren, as the photo would suggest, has no idea how dorky she is except when she spends 8 consecutive hours playing video games and listening to video game podcasts. But being a pastry cook leaves her little time to do that, so you can usually find her covered in chocolate in a kitchen somewhere downtown. Lauren lives in close enough proximity to the St. Lawrence Market to ensure she is rarely without 16-grain bread, dried chickpeas or chestnut puree.

Rick is a third-generation Torontonian, which everyone keeps saying is sort of weird. He grew up near the Kodak plant at Weston and Eglinton, and has worked as a photographer and writer for NOW, eye weekly, Metro, Toronto Life, the Village Voice and the New York Times, among others. He has been dragged reluctantly into marriage, fatherhood and home ownership, which have taught him that his objections were ridiculous, though he dares anyone now living to teach him how to drive a car.

Roger Cullman is what you might call a two-way photojournalist, trained both
as a writer and photographer. He is a recent graduate of the esteemed Photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ont., having already completed a Journalism degree from Ryerson University. Roger's work has been published in 24 Hours, Spacing, Shift, NOW Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Under the alias Wordfreak, Roger runs the weekly Scrabble in the City club at Kilgour's. You can read his blog and check out his photos at rogercullman.com.

Tim was born in a suburb of Toronto but now lives in Leslieville - just down the street from Okay Okay Diner. The pancakes there are heavenly but he usually goes for the eggs. When not blogging or thinking about lunch he forgets to water the plants and subscribes to magazines he doesn't actually read.