About
There’s always been something oddly enchanting about taking a picture. As cliché as it sounds, trying to pin down a moment exactly the way my brain remembers it has become a sort of lifelong habit. And when you do that for long enough, a funny thing happens—you start noticing the world in small, cinematic details. Pair that with a few side obsessions, and eventually a style emerges. At least, that’s how it went for me.
I’m Grant. I live on Salt Spring Island, tucked inside the coastal puzzle of British Columbia, with my wife and our two small, adventure-issued children. We moved here from rural Ontario after graduating from graphic design, which—looking back—was probably the first domino in all of this.
In those early days, I kept buying stock photos that cost too much and somehow still looked like they were taken on lunch break. Clients would hand over in-house shots that didn’t quite make the leap either. So I started taking the photos myself. Better? Debatable. But I was shooting constantly—construction sites, housing developments, bread factories, mushroom farms, dairy barns, canoe trips—anything to rescue a project from stock-photo purgatory.
Somewhere along the way, that practical solution became the actual job. Now I’m fortunate to shoot for brands like Tiger Tool, Silver Hills Bakery, Little Northern Bakehouse, Hardbite Chips, and BC Search & Rescue—each one with its own world, its own textures, its own story to tell.
I’m still a graphic designer. But now, I’m also a photographer—and that part, at least, doesn’t feel accidental anymore.
This is my family, where I live and me - with a helmet on. Because I like to mountain bike.