Discover Top Portrait Photographers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Director / DP (mitchbowmile.com) Founder North Country Media House - video production(northcountrymediahouse.com) Mitch is an award-winning Director/DP with experience working on unscripted narratives for television, independent distribution, digital and commercial use. His clients have ranged from media distributors such as Global Heroes to environmental non-profits including the Greenbelt Foundation and Wilderness Committee. Mitch's work heavily emphasizes in-depth storytelling and journalistic practices, themes that stem from his origins as a Toronto Metropolitan University journalism graduate and his years of industry experience as a feature writer and reporter for SwimSwam News/Magazine. Transitioning his storytelling style to a visual medium, Mitch has brought the same journalistic integrity from his writing and applied a critical eye for detailed visuals and sharing emotion on-screen to connect audiences with important causes. In addition to filmmaking, Mitch's passion for nature and exploration have allowed him to develop outdoor skills applicable to the harshest terrain on our planet including mountaineering, crevasse rescue, winter travel, wilderness first aid, whitewater paddling and navigation which make him an asset to productions looking to tell authentic stories in hard to reach places. Mitch is eager to work on projects that cover themes of nature, natural history, wildlife, adventure, travel and science, however looks forward to sharing stories from every niche that he can. Mitch has very basic working proficiency in both French and Spanish.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Copywriter
• Sound Mixer
• Gaffer
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Sound Designer

Ian Willms (b. 1985) is a post-documentary photographer and member of Panos Pictures. His multi-year photo essay projects often address the intimacies of power struggles, inequities and profound compromise. As a photojournalist, Ian has contributed to National Geographic, The New York Times, TIME, GEO, New York Magazine, The Guardian Weekly and many others throughout the last decade. Ian's ancestors fled violent persecution in Russia before settling in Canada, where Ian grew up in a subsidized apartment building for at-risk women. His formative years were steeped in a community with lived experiences in mental health, addiction, homelessness, poverty, racism and gender-based oppression. Ian's longform works have garnered support and accolades from The Eugene Smith Fund, World Press Photo, Sony World Photography Awards, Pictures of the Year International, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Lange-Taylor Prize et al, and been shown in exhibitions around the world. He lives in Toronto and is available for editorial assignments worldwide. He is represented by NAMARA Projects for commercial enquiries and print sales.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer

Josh is a charismatic content creator weaving a tapestry of travel, photography, and fashion. With an affable persona, Josh embodies an aspirational lifestyle—exploring the globe, savouring delectable cuisines, embracing a keen sense of style, and partaking in unique experiences. Bolstered by years of expertise in the creative space, his lens captures not just moments but narratives that transcend borders. Join Josh on this visual journey, where each photograph and outfit tells a story, inviting you to share in the vibrancy of a life well-lived.

• Fashion Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Digital Content Creator
• Influencer
• Social Media Producer

Sarah is an award-winning photographer who works for publications like The Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, Fortune and Maclean's. She excels at photographing people, events and candid moments, while using a variety of techniques to deliver stunning photos to her clients.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Fashion Photographer

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, and Photographer. Connor has served as the Head of Photography at Herb where he oversaw the art direction and photography operations and strategy for images published to an audience of 16 million people. Connor created, directed and produced several of Herb’s most successful videos which garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. Connor was a Director, Cinematographer, and Editor of The Exit, a documentary on the use of cannabis as a potential solution to the opioid crisis. Connor was the co-director and Director of Photography of several short documentaries, including a short film called Game Changers, which profiled Al Harrington, who played 16 seasons in the NBA. Connor also co-directed a mini-documentary called "Of The Earth", which focused on the treatment of indigenous people on Tyendinaga Mohawk territory following the passage of Bill C-46. Previous to Herb, Connor was an Art Director and Senior Photo-Editor of The Plaid Zebra, an unconventional lifestyle publication that served 4 million monthly readers at its peak. Check out my Instagram page: @ConnorFyfe

• Documentary DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Creative Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - News
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing

Karan Deep Singh is an Emmy-nominated journalist, filmmaker, editor and photographer. He has most recently been focusing on long-form storytelling at The New York Times. Karan has worked for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as a staffer telling stories in visuals and words for nearly a decade. He covered terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the crackdown in Kashmir, labor shortage in Japan, and Myanmar’s military campaign that drove more than a million Rohingya refugees to neighboring Bangladesh. Karan was part of the Journal team that was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of Amazon, the e-commerce retailer, and its unsafe global supply chain. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020 for a short documentary film he produced, filmed and directed. In 2022, he won a South Asian Journalists Association Award for a visual and investigative series about India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. He also won a Human Rights Press Award in 2021 for an investigation into an anti-Muslim campaign in India’s northeast. Before joining The Times in 2019, Karan spent five years at The Wall Street Journal as a Reporter and Video Journalist reporting from five countries in Asia. He started his career at The Hindustan Times, one of India’s largest English newspapers.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Reporter / Journalist
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Drone Operator
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Sound Designer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Colorist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Video Editor - News
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Copywriter
• Fixer
• Commercial DP
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Production Assistant
• Senior Editor
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Event Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Executive Producer
• Content Strategist
• TV News Producer
• Corporate Videographer
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Digital Content Creator
• Audio Storyteller
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• On-Camera Talent
• Copy Editor

I’ve been an artist since before I can remember. It all started with drawing. At 12 years old I was doing stop motion and Claymation and by the time I was 14 I had shot my first short film. Fast forward to my 24th birthday, when I decided to go get my master’s degree from my dream school (USC’s School of Cinematic Arts). By then I had finished a Bachelor’s Degree in Visual arts, played bass for a band in front of hundreds of people, had songs played at and been interviewed on national radio, had three music videos I directed on MTV Latin America’s top 10 (with one # 1), and had shot and edited a live rock concert that would go on to feature as part of MTV’s world stage series, and be sold in record stores. That still wasn't enough. So, I left my band and my burgeoning career as an up and coming music video director in Colombia to pursue my dream of being a film director. Thus, I moved to Los Angeles, where I got my MFA, and then stayed 6 years total until late 2015. During this time, I worked as an independent director, doing short form content for artists and clients. I Co-wrote, produced, co-directed and edited my first feature length film, and I worked as a cinematographer on another feature, meanwhile working in developing film and TV projects for one of my USC mentors, as well as for myself. In late 2018, my wife and I moved to Vancouver Canada, looking for a new start. In my time there, I taught film directing at Vancouver Film School, was a Creative Director at Appreciated Media, and then for the past two years Creative Vice President and Producer at Crank Media, a company where I got to assemble from the ground and lead a talented creative team, as well as pursue the production of various long and short form projects, including developing long form projects, shooting a TV pilot, all kinds of content for social media, photographing our music label’s artists, shooting their videos, and I even got to supervise the creation on 3D metaverse style world prototypes. I moved to Toronto in late 2022, and decided to start working for myself again.

• Creative Director
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• HD Live Operator
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Gaffer
• Colorist
• Senior Editor
• Commercial DP
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Executive Producer
• Storyboard Artist
• Art Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Sound Mixer
• Sound Designer
• Copywriter

Take5 Digital is a full-service creative video production company. We have been serving clients in London, Toronto, and across Canada since 2012. Our approach is collaborative and creative: we work with our clients’ budget and objectives to create videos that engage viewers and move them to action.

• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Drone Operator
• Production Company
• Creative Director
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Landscape Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Event Photographer

With 15 years experience as a commercial and editorial photographer, this creative story teller has shifted to shooting, directing and editing motion.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Series Producer / Show Runner
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Creative Director
• Field Producer
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Post-Production Manager
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Fixer
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Fashion Photographer

Hello! I’m Adam Pedersen, I’m based in Toronto Ontario, Canada. I am an award winning director with an immeasurable passion for filmmaking. Let's tell great stories together.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Drone Operator
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Colorist
• Creative Director
• Executive Producer

May Truong is a portrait photographer who creates a strong connection of trust. Clients include The New York Times, Macleans Magazine, and the Globe and Mail.

• Portrait Photographer
• Fashion Photographer