- City
- Toronto
- Booth
- Nathan Phillips Square
Booth 27
Andrew Zimbel
Andrew Zimbel is a Toronto-based photographer whose practice is rooted in mindful seeing — the willingness to be stopped by light, by beauty, by the quiet poetry that surrounds us when we remember to look.
His training began early, at the elbow of his father, George Zimbel, a renowned humanist photographer. From a young age, Andrew haunted the darkroom with him, watching extraordinary images swim up through the developer bath beneath the red safety light. Life had other plans. After a decades-long hiatus, his photographic journey was rekindled by the iPhone and the transformative possibilities of Photoshop — tools that opened a new way of seeing the city he walks every day.
Andrew's images begin in motion — on rambles through ravines, along river trails, and through the quietly extraordinary corners of urban life. Moments are caught, layered, and repositioned into composite landscapes that feel both real and dreamed. The eye his father trained with gentle patience still finds the promise in the ordinary, the magic in available light, and the deep presence of the natural world pressing through the city's edges.
His work has been shown in two solo exhibitions: Whispers of the Ordinary, mounted on his 65th birthday, and Collected Works 2022–2026, at The Tasting Gallery at Daniel et Daniel, Toronto. As producer of the Art at Home Pavilion at the National Home Show, he has also created a platform celebrating and connecting emerging and established artists — a natural extension of his belief that art belongs in everyday life.
This is his third year participating as an artist in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.
Andrew is the father of two daughters, a writer, and the coordinator of the Junction Writers Group. His images are limited editions, printed on Canson Platine Fibre Rag 310 by the Image Foundry.
