Kitchener-Waterloo: Colin Boyd Shafer

Colin Boyd Shafer: He is snapping portraits of people from 190 countries that now make Toronto their home, according to The Star. Shafer, originally from Kitchener-Waterloo, returned to Canada after finishing a masters degree in political economy, violence conflict and development at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, earlier this year. It was in London that he came up with the idea for the Cosmopolis Toronto project and Colin Boyd Shafer, a 30-year-old photographer and teacher, wants to demonstrate how diverse and multicultural Toronto is, one photograph at a time. His project, called Cosmopolis Toronto , has its own website and is available for viewing through social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Funded by crowdsourcing on Indiegogo , the photography project is tentatively scheduled to be on display at the Toronto Centre for the Arts in North York for a month, starting in January. There are also plans to publish the photographs in a book. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.