Jess Casey vs The Streets of #G20 [Patrick Estebar Shoot]

After watching the G20 protests in Toronto on Twitter, CP24, and of course Youtube I really got tired of hearing about the whole thing. Then on Sunday it hit me: Let’s break the monotony by doing a mini-shoot downtown. So I put the bat signal up and assembled a coalition of the willing (Jess Casey with photographer Patrick Estebar) in the Queen and Spadina area. This was the result:

All in all a good day out on the town with model/designer/Ryerson Student Jess Casey of All Black Everything Jewelry and photographer Patrick Estebar. Because I knew someone would ask I got the translation/significance of Jess’ t-shirt “Etre et Avoir” I asked her to explain. Essentially it means “To be and To be” which sounded kind of stupid until she explained that one meant a permanent state of ‘to be’ while the other was more temporary (anybody else need a beer?).

Final thoughts:

“There were more cops than people. Being down there, doing this shoot really demonstrates how big of a deal it was NOT’” -Jess Casey

“I wanted to do this for 2 reasons:
1 – I felt like everybody else was going downtown to shoot the riots and the damage and talk about #G20 ridiculosity, and I hate being like everybody else
2 – This is the LionsDenU.com if we can make a socio-political statement with a hot university girl, then gatdamn we’re going to do it.” -Nate Black

LDU’s official statements on #G20: Read a newspaper. Formulate an opinion. Complain only if you’re among those creating change, otherwise nobody wants to hear it.