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Cars to Cameras

Friedman needed more space, they found it in their own backyard. The couple’s house in Toronto’s Danforth neighborhood had suited their family of five. But in 2019, Robert and Debra, both professional photographers, decided it was time to add a home studio. They started eyeing the parking pad behind their house, past a mature smoke tree and Debra’s clusters of perennials. The concrete patch opened onto a

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