Waiting In The City, Every Day.
showmintki.com documents the small, unremarkable pauses of urban life across Canada — bus shelters, subway platforms and crosswalks where strangers stand still together for a moment before the city moves again.
Purely observational · No images for sale · Updated occasionally
Six pauses across six cities
A small selection of the everyday waiting scenes gathered so far — no two cities the same, but the posture of patience looks remarkably similar everywhere.
The Bus Shelter
Three commuters, one bench, six minutes until the next 4B.
Platform Two
Eyes on the tunnel, ears on the announcement speakers.
The Window Seat
A coffee going cold while the street outside keeps moving.
Bench, East End
Two strangers, one bench, an unspoken agreement to share it.
The Taxi Line
Suitcases, early light, a queue that barely moves.
Morning Order
Seven people, one espresso machine, a shared kind of patience.
A quiet record of a very loud city
showmintki.com started as a habit of noticing: the woman reading at a bus shelter, the man checking his watch on a subway platform, the line outside a coffee shop that never seems to shorten. Over time, this habit grew into a running archive of waiting across Canadian cities, gathered without staging or direction, one ordinary moment at a time.
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A running tally of a slow habit
None of these numbers are targets. They simply describe how the project has grown, one bus shelter and one subway platform at a time.
14
Cities visited
600+
Scenes documented
5
Years of fieldwork
0
Staged photographs
Short essays on the art of standing still in public
Occasional writing that sits alongside the photographs, exploring why waiting looks the way it does in Canadian cities.
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Questions about the project, or a tip about a spot worth photographing? Reach out through the contact page and we will get back to you.
Phone
416-606-3545
Address
136 Geary Ave., Studio 214, Toronto, ON M6H 4H1
Unstaged moments
Every scene is found, not arranged. Subjects are photographed as they naturally wait, without direction or posing.
Ordinary time
The focus is on the unremarkable minutes of a day — a commute, a queue, a bench — rather than events or landmarks.
Across Canada
From Halifax to Victoria, the project follows the same quiet pattern of waiting wherever a city is busy enough to produce it.
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One short email whenever there is something new to read or look at.
Where the project is looking right now
Toronto, ON
Union Station concourse
Montréal, QC
Ste-Catherine Street
Vancouver, BC
Robson Street corridor
Calgary, AB
Airport terminal curb
Ottawa, ON
ByWard Market bus loop