Twelve Canvases, One City: Everyday Life in Montreal

Recently, I finally completed a series of twelve large canvas prints, each measuring 40 × 60 inches, featuring street scenes from Montreal.

The images capture different sides of the city.

A father, wearing shorts and a long-sleeved T-shirt, walks along a street lined with Victorian buildings, holding the hand of a little girl dressed almost exactly like him.

At a restaurant terrace, a group of people sit together, eating, drinking, and enjoying the outdoors.

In a park carpeted with red autumn leaves, people of all ages stroll along the paths, surrounded by the colours of the season.

There are freshly baked ring-shaped breads, outdoor spiral staircases covered in climbing vines, and countless other details that make Montreal what it is.

None of these scenes needs a famous monument to make it interesting. Their charm lies in ordinary moments: a father and daughter walking together, friends sharing a meal, strangers crossing paths in a park, or an old staircase slowly disappearing beneath green leaves.

Montreal is a city of architecture, food, changing seasons, and people from many different backgrounds. Sometimes, the best way to discover a city is not to look for its most recognizable landmarks, but to pay attention to the little things happening right in front of us.

Now, these twelve scenes have been brought together on a much larger scale, printed on canvas. Details that might otherwise go unnoticed become part of the experience, inviting viewers to pause and explore.

At ACCO PHOTO, we work with photographs and images every day. Seeing them transformed into large canvas prints is a reminder that an image can be more than something we keep on a screen. It can become part of a physical space, something to live with, look at, and discover again and again.

Twelve canvases. One city. Countless little stories.

And Montreal, as always, has many more stories to tell.