Driver: Taxi Drivers

driver: A taxi driver brought a refugee claimant to the door I was really intrigued how the driver found out about the organization, because we had no signage, he remembered, according to CBC. He said, 'I asked a bunch of my taxi driver friends, what can we do to help this guy.' Vander Spek's interest in what he describes as the social network of taxi drivers was born and in 2013, he began snapping their pictures and interviewing them about their lives. Toronto photographer Henry Vander Spek, whose photo company is called Culturesnap, said he first became interested in taking pictures of taxi drivers more than a decade ago, while working at a refugee agency. He walked CBC Toronto through a series of his favourite portraits. Henry Vander Spek Swapan One of the things that I learned about him is that he and his wife support 60 kids back in Bangladesh. Swapan, photographed in front of Union Station, impressed Vander Spek with his commitment to giving to charity back home in Bangladesh. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.