Fine Art Photography Portfolio
Crafted imagery & storytelling
These works explore the intersection of narrative and constructed image, drawing on intense lighting, staged effects, and material interventions to create photographs that blur the line between the real and the imagined.
From miniature dioramas to archival image composites, as well as portraiture layered with multimedia storytelling, each project is carefully composed to evoke atmosphere and meaning. The result is a series of visual experiments that transform process, material, and voice into story.
Fine Art
Photography Portfolio
The Spotlight Project
Spotlight is a series of unique LPs, each one telling the story of a professional in the music industry through audio interviews and photographs. Their voices, opinions, and experiences play directly from the records themselves, pairing sound with image to create a complete portrait. From producers and publicists to designers and session musicians, the project focuses on the people who work behind the scenes—the ones who rarely get the spotlight but make the music possible.
Hurt
Hurt visualizes the hidden weight of mental illness through staged effects and symbolic imagery. Using smoke, water, and distortion, the series captures moments of isolation and the quiet struggle to be seen and understood.
Measure
A study of light, symmetry, and precision, Measure focuses on how contrast shapes perception. Each black-and-white portrait is marked with graphic measurements, turning facial structure into a visual language of balance and form.
Reverie
Created from handcrafted paper dioramas, Reverie builds miniature dreamscapes that explore the space between the dreamer and the dream. Each scene reflects how imagination transforms the ordinary into something surreal—silhouettes and shadows becoming fragments of memory, suspended in light and paper.
Transported
Transported merges early 1900s photographs of Toronto’s public transit system with new images taken in the same locations. By layering archival and modern elements, the series connects two eras of the city’s history—where past and present literally share the same frame. It’s both a celebration of Toronto’s growth and a reminder of what remains unchanged.
Greed
Through macro photography and layered map imagery, Greed traces the expansion of the British Empire and its pursuit of wealth and control. Each image represents a page in a larger photographic book, with text outlining the reason each territory was colonized—whether for sugar, salt, trade routes, or strategic advantage. The growing network of pins and wire charts the empire’s reach, illustrating how ambition reshaped the world.
Siscéal
Síscéal brings Irish folklore to life through miniature dioramas inspired by traditional tales of fairies, mermaids, leprechauns, changelings, ghosts, witches, and the devil. Each handcrafted scene captures both the ethereal and the ominous sides of these stories, blending the dark and the dreamlike. The series reinterprets myth and superstition in tangible form, giving shape to Ireland’s most enduring legends.
Tutu Out of Context
Shot in black and white across the city of Toronto, Tutu Out of Context captures ballerinas in ordinary, everyday locations. The juxtaposition of elegance and environment turns familiar places into unexpected stages, bringing a quiet sense of performance into real life.
Landscapes
This collection brings together landscape and travel images taken across Canada, England, Scotland, Portugal, and France. Shot on both film and digital, each photograph highlights a sense of calm, curiosity, or atmosphere from time spent exploring. Rather than a formal series, these images reflect the small details and views that linger long after the trip ends.
Toronto-based photographer Taylor Monroe blends storytelling, precision, and creative experimentation across her work in fine art and behind-the-scenes imagery. A BFA graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University, her projects explore narrative, lighting, and constructed scenes—ranging from handcrafted dioramas and archival photo composites to documentary-style captures of film and music productions. With a background spanning dance, design, and photo editing, Taylor approaches photography as both performance and process. Her work balances creative experimentation with refined, intentional detail.
Taylor Monroe
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