JEREMY TAYLOR
1938-2015

Born into an artistic family of the 1930's Jeremy Taylor grew up into the vibrant 
cultural mix of Paul Robeson's music and Goodridge Roberts and Stanley 
Cosgrove's paintings. In his early teens, Taylor developed a passion for modern 
jazz. But it was in 1959, while visiting his father in San Miguel, Mexico, that his 
life-long fascination with photography began. To this day, he is largely self-taught 
marrying these interests with a third-the spiritual path.

His early photographic influences include Heri-Cartier Bresson, Edward Weston, 
Alfred Stieglitz, Minor White and Ansel Adams, whose workshop he attended in 
1969. Realizing his talent for making fine art photographic prints, Taylor 
established a commercial specialty printing studio in Toronto. In this role, he 
worked as a traditional artisan, making exquisite photographic prints for other 
artists. As a photographer, Taylor challenges  himself daily to document the 
world and its symbols and to give it, through the eye of the photograph, poetic 
expression.

The archives of his own work include the portfolios Street Portrait - Mexico, 
People and Architecture - Montreal, Landscapes of the American Southwest and 
Canada, Austere Horizon - The Eastern Beaches, Pathways - The Don Valley and 
Intersection. The last three focus on Taylor's extensive documentation of the City 
of Toronto. Taylor's photographs appear in the permanent collections of the 
Victoria and Albert Museum, the Canadian Museum of Photography, the National 
Gallery of Canada and the Art Bank of the Canada Council.