Travel stories told through photography, people and memorable places
reportagera.com is a documentary photography archive following the roads, towns and coastlines of Canada, one story and one portrait at a time.
What we photograph
Every story on reportagera.com falls into one of three lenses we return to again and again.
Street Life
Candid moments from markets, sidewalks and city corners across the country.
Landscapes
The mountains, coastlines and prairies that shape the Canadian horizon.
People & Portraits
Faces and voices from the towns and communities we pass through.
We slow down and listen before we shoot
Every reportage begins with a conversation. We sit at kitchen tables, on porches and at market stalls, learning the story behind a place before a single photograph is taken. The result is a body of work that feels lived-in rather than staged.
- Weeks spent in each community before the camera comes out
- Portraits made with consent and context, never in passing
- Stories archived and shared long after the trip ends
The people behind the lens
A small team of photographers and writers travelling across Canada to find and tell these stories.
Aiyana Bearclaw
Photojournalist
Marcus Delaney
Documentary Photographer
Mei Chen
Writer & Editor
Owen Fletcher
Travel Photographer
New stories, straight to your inbox
Once a month, we send a short note with a handful of new photographs and the stories behind them.
Voices from the road
A few words from the people who welcomed our cameras into their communities.
"The photographs from our neighbourhood market captured something I hadn't seen in years of living there — the quiet pride of the vendors."
Layla Haddad
Halifax, NS
"They spent a week with our community before taking a single photo. What came back felt honest, not like the postcards you usually see of the North."
Piita Aupilardjuk
Iqaluit, NU
"I've been photographed by tourists a hundred times on that corner. This was the first time someone actually asked about the music first."
Diego Fernandes
Toronto, ON
Snapshots from the archive
A small selection of the places we've documented so far.
Rocky Mountains, AB
Prairie farmland, SK
Jean-Talon Market, QC
Boreal forest, ON
Have a story or a place we should visit?
We're always looking for new communities, roads and faces to photograph across Canada. Send us a note.
Contact usOffice
214 - 20 Technology Drive, Saint John, NB E2K 0J4, Canada
Phone
+1 437-452-3308