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Dwayne Brown is finding out what people love most about Ottawa, one snapshot at a time.

Five things about Dwayne Brown A portrait of a Hintonburg photographer

Story and photo by Ted Simpson

“What do you love about Ottawa?” That’s the question Hintonburg photographer Dwayne Brown has been asking people all across the city over the past year for a personal project he has created and simply titled, LoveOttawa. Brown appears, seemingly out of thin air, from the back of the

Hintonburg Public House. “Through the kitchen, across the alley and up the fire escape, that’s my studio,” he explains. The area around Wellington and Fairmont is Brown’s home and base for his business as a corporate and commercial photographer. LoveOttawa is an idea Brown created to fend off the doldrums. “Things generally quiet down in the summer,

I don’t really like being quiet or slow, so I wanted a side project that I could do some portraits that were a little more street based,” he says. He’s been doing photography for 31 years, 15 of them in Ottawa. Brown came here from Edmonton to experience a different part of Canada and decided to stick around. For his current project, Brown sets Continued on page 4

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