Get your head shot.
Photographer Natilie Logan has an exhibition titled, 'Our Finests' Faces: Get your Head Shot', of police officers faces taken during the G20.
Photo/NATALIE LOGAN
There are hundreds of images of broken windows and burning cars on the Internet, but photographer, Natalie Logan wanted to show a different side of G20.
Our Finests' Faces: Get Your Head Shot is an exhibition of photographs of the faces and expressions behind the riot masks at the summit held in Toronto in June.
"I have lots of pictures of burning cars, but I'm not going to put them up in a gallery," Logan said. "We have seen that, so I selected images that show a very personal and emotional side to individual officers."
There are 10 police portraits of a face behind reflective gear. Logan explained the series is really simple. They are hung with clips in the Cell Gallery, a small space at Gallery 1313 in Parkdale.
The faces range in emotion, confused, scared, sad and angry.
"They are very human emotions. They don't look like monsters," said Logan, a 21-year-old University of Toronto student who lives in the Annex.
"I wanted to photograph the officers in a way separate from everyone else," she said.
Logan said she sees the photographs as intimate portraits that capture the emotion behind the plastic riot masks. Logan said she looked at each of the officers as individual people.
"The kind of journalistic photography we see at these things are these wide shots with lots of carnage and lots of violence," she said. "You won't find that in any of my photographs."
She photographed the faces on Saturday, June 26, before being detained at the Eastern Avenue detention centre for 17 hours.
"It was not related to my portrait taking," she said of being picked up by police. "I was outside Hotel Novotel (on The Esplanade) on Saturday night with a large group of people and they arrested everybody. So I was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
The exhibition opened on July 21 and runs at Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen St. W, until Sunday Aug. 1.