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50TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019
Life clicks into place for NSN photo trio
Three gems combine for more than a century shooting North Shore
With more than 100 years between them as North Shore News photographers, the trio of Paul McGrath, Cindy Goodman and Mike Wakefield has captured the images of countless North Shore residents.
She photographed six ballerinas with their slippers dangling off the edge of a bench at Anna Wyman’s dance school. But more than that, she caught six kids full of tranquility, impatience, innocence, humour, distraction, consternation, and a hefty dollop of sass. Click. An Emily Carr graduWakefield had no ate, Wakefield intention of wasting his photographic talent. “I’m an artist,” he remembers saying. “I’m not working at the North Shore News.” Two days later, after some persuasion from his mother and girlfriend, he got hired as a darkroom tech. He’d take the job, he decided – but only until he got bored or found something better. “And I never did,” he muses without a ghost of regret. Listening to Wakefi eld Wakefield tell stories is like trying ight of a to chart the fl flight moth. His anecdotes are
JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com
Walk off West First Street into the North Shore News offices and – just to your left – there’s a moment.
The photo shows a baseball player in mid-stride after smacking the winning homerun. His teammate is holding the game hero’s jersey like a cowboy gripping the scruff of a jittery thoroughbred. And in that moment, with everyone’s face full of fireworks, a shutter winked. Click. The moment after was good. The moment before was fine too. But that crack-of-light click captured by Paul McGrath ... that was THE moment. For more than 30 years a team of three photographers – McGrath, Mike Wakefield and Cindy Goodman – documented triumph, heartbreak, and beauty on the North Shore a split-second at a time. “If everything worked out and all the gods were with you and you captured that moment, it’s the best feeling,” Goodman reflects. With camera around her neck, Goodman would coax, cajole, and chip away at who you’re trying to be until she found out who you are.
PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
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