Black and white photo of people standing on a city sidewalk, casting dramatic shadows on the pavement.

 

 

Canadian Documentary Photographer

I believe the strength of the camera is it’s ability to capture fleeting moments, to stop time and create a sense of curiosity in the viewer. The still image to be successful has to illustrate something missed, something fleeting.

Hiker with green backpack and trekking pole navigating rocky terrain near rushing rapids in a forest.

 

Welcome to my website

 

Randall Romano (1957) is a Canadian based documentary photographer and educator concentrating on both short- and long-term projects. Randall is a passionate Canadian embracing the beauty and diversity of the Canadian experience and currently is working on a variety of photography projects showing a cross section of Canadian places. He currently writes a publication about photography in Substack with new articles appearing every two weeks.

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How I see the world



My photographic vision sees the world from two different and equally important perspectives, a fast-paced documentary style that captures moments of people and daily events as they unfold, and secondly a more slow-paced connection, basking in the beauty of nature and slowly making careful compositions of expressive beauty. Both these visions offer a diversity of subject matter, one of what I believe is a superpower of the camera. An abundance of subject genres all requiring different skill sets.

Two people standing on a misty urban sidewalk surrounded by steam, with city traffic and buildings visible in the background.
Two people walk past a large chalkboard mural reading Before I Die on a city street wall.
Ice-covered rocky shoreline with frozen formations over turquoise water under a misty winter sky.
People walking on a city sidewalk, one person wearing a fur coat holding a red cup, another in a blue cardigan.
Man peering over giant egg sculptures beside a red convertible at a quirky rural junkyard art installation.
Snow-covered rocky mountain cliffs with dense evergreen forest in winter landscape.

Street Photography



Photographing on the streets of Toronto since 2015, I greatly enjoy the challenge of candid street photography as it captures a unique moment of time that cannot be replicated.

Canadian Locations

It has been a great privilege of travelling across Canada to all 10 of the provinces. Photographing some of the locations I have visited is an important way for me to understand places and to document the world at this moment of time

Canadian Landscapes


Beauty in the natural world is important and sometimes considered banal in photographs. As a photographer everything is photographical including beauty and I enjoy slowing things down, using a tripod and using every opportunity to create interesting photographs

Panoramic view of a small coastal village with white buildings, rocky terrain, and mountains reflected in calm water.

Let’s work together

 

Location photography requires time spent getting to know a place and its people. There is no better way to know a place than to walk and slowly experience it. The joy of photography is discovering new places as it is a passion and huge part of my photographic process

 

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Golden sunbeams streaming through haze over a field of tall grass and wildflowers in warm morning light.

 

Inspirations

 

I owe a great deal of thanks to a large number of people and master photographers who have helped and supported me over the years. No photographer or person stands alone in the world without his friends and family who have had a constant influence over his life. We all have people who have influenced us and encouraged us to be better and give us the space to be more creative.

 

A small tribute and thank you to those that have encouraged my life in photography.


The people most at heart who have helped me are my family members. Catherine my wife who is my fiercest critic, my children, Ryan, Jesse, Gemma and Benjamin who have inspired me to make photographs of their life and surroundings. And my parents Elsa and Armando Romano who gave me my first camera, a Konica SLR and set me on a path of being a photographer. As a confused teenager the camera gave me an outlet for creativity and discovering the world, one that would stay with me my entire life.


 

Arnold Zageris and Tom Cookston (who left us too early in 2022)

These two gentlemen provided me with many interesting photographic outings and were the first photographers I went into the field with. Photography in many cases is an individual and lone wolf pursuit and working with other photographers opened up new doors and realities in my creativity. Arnold (who I continue to photograph with on a regular basis) and Tom are both responsible for my Ice and Water Series of photographs. They have been and in Arnold’s case continue to be mentors and fellow creators who have made me a better person.


 

 

"I'm more interested in a photography that is 'unfinished' - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are pictures that are closed, finished, to which there is no way in."




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Stylish woman with silver hair wearing a denim jacket and striped dress walking outside a modern building.
Three men sitting on urban steps, one drinking coffee, another with head in hands, in a city alleyway.
Black and white street portrait of a heavyset man smoking a cigarette in a winter coat near a storefront.