 Commercial photography is it's fun and I guess much like illustration you spend a lot of time taking someone else's idea and trying to make it into a real thing and I had a lot of ideas and things that I wanted to do myself so I just decided it was time to start doing them. My name is Jeff Turner and I am a photographer or photo-based artist I guess depending on who you ask. I shoot commercially and then I also do these sort of resin photographic images. I'm always looking at photography from a fine art perspective or from a multimedia perspective. I've always thought it was a bit weird when you talk to photographers sometimes and somebody says I'm an architectural photographer or I'm a food photographer I'm a fashion photographer. I don't really understand that because I literally photograph whatever I feel like and one day I might be shooting figure studies the next day I'm shooting an old typewriter and then maybe I'll get on a plane and take some pictures of people in other countries and it just it's changes daily. In this one room there is resin pieces of vintage cameras there is a collage of the Toronto subway and the Montreal subway and there are silk screens of the Monium Falcon and I've sold all of them and I've shown them together. Yeah they have nothing to do with each other but I don't really care I make whatever I feel like. There's sort of two parts of what I do there's the creative part where I'm shooting or working on the computer putting pieces together but then this part is really very process oriented and it's some days you spend the entire day gluing and others you're just painting painting painting or resonating resonating. I've done a lot of multimedia stuff image transfers I've body painted on people I like portraits and I like figure work that are sort of haunting and they stay with you. I like to look at a photograph and not really know what the person is thinking or wonder what they're thinking and be curious. One of the things I actually really like about shooting figure work is that when you sort of strip a person down to nothing in a lot of ways you remove a lot of things that date it. For the most part a nude from the 20s is just as beautiful as a nude from the 70s or 90s or now. I don't necessarily really have a message or something that I'm trying to communicate I'm more trying to make sort of beautiful and interesting objects. I don't know that being creative means anything to me because I've always been like this and people comment like I don't know how you think these things or you have such a good eye or whatever and it doesn't seem that way to me it just it's just something that I can do. I feel the exact same way when I have friends who are musicians and they'll just pick up an instrument and they'll just like make something up and I watch them do that and it's like sorcery. I don't really understand how you did that but they feel the same way about the things that I do. What is integral to your work? I guess a camera. I mean I do lots of different things and a lot of it is using different art techniques but at the end of the day it's all photographic based. I'm just a guy. Keep doing the stuff that you want to do on your off time and keep pushing. I mean I worked a lot of years before I was at the point where I could just say I don't want to do this anymore and I'm going to quit.