James Street North: Mina Ao

Mina Ao: Opening on Friday at the you me gallery on James Street North, Our Place features 19 intimate portraits of Middle Eastern, South Asian and East Asian families in Hamilton, giving viewers a window into their suppertime rituals. Ao said she visited the Fans not expecting she would leave their house having taken a photo of the couple. Courtesy of Mina Ao, according to CBC. One of the reasons we wanted to do these communities together is that these immigrant communities, when they first come to Canada, they would be facing similar challenges of starting a new life in a new country, said Ao, who hails from Macau and came to North America to study in the late 1990s and The table is set, dinner is ready and you're invited to a new exhibition of photographs showcasing immigrant families in Hamilton sitting down to their special meal of the day. According to Mina Ao, who, along with Iranian-born photographer Masoud Eskandari, shot the pictures for the project, the aim of the exhibition is to create understanding between the different cultural groups that are represented. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.