Glenn Bell Photography

10/09/2025

Always enjoy seeing familiar friendly faces from the many Art with Heart events over the years.

10/08/2025

10/08/2025

Art with Heart - Carlu - a fundraiser / art auction in support of Casey House, October 7 2025

10/24/2024

For many years, I have had the privilege and pleasure of photographing the Art with Heart fundraising art auction, on behalf of Casey House. At events, of course, photos of attendees smiling to the camera are common and valued. In addition, I enjoy "found moments", candid images where the subject is most likely not making eye contact with the camera. From my vantage point, these images capture the essence of the event in a way which posed images don't quite manage to do. They are less staged, sometimes less guarded. For these, I usually light the images differently, opting to rely on ambient light almost entirely or as the primary light source.
From this year's auction, here are four which I like. The first shows the auctioneer Perry Tung (seen from behind) speaking with a patron in the large entrance of the Carlu. The art works were displayed in this space, with large bright lights mounted at floor level. In this first image, the art patron's face is being lit by one of these floor lamps. In another photo, taking during bidding, a patron is seen texting on his phone, with the light on his face coming entirely from his phone. Next, a photo of Perry on stage during the auction. I have taken similar "back of stage" images almost every year, often chosing to process the images as high contrast black & white, with the auctioneer a silouette against the room of patrons beyond. This year, the stage had two large, red & orange floral arrangements which I found visually appealing, so here is the colour version of that shot. And finally, an image of a patron bidding during a particularly enthusiastic lot. While the bidder has a cool, calm expression, the woman behind her shows an expression of surprise which captures that particular moment in the bidding - the bids were increasing rapidly, beyond the estimated value of the work, an excitement was growing. Seconds after this image, the bidding went beyond this particular patron's appetite, and the lot eventually went to someone else.

12/03/2023

World AIDS Day, December 1 2023.
Casey House hosted Voices for Hope at the Toronto Reference Library. We were there photographing guests on the "red carpet" before the evening of storytelling got under way.
Check out the gallery here.

Photo collection by Glenn Bell Photography

09/29/2023

Casey House Art with Heart - celebrating 30 years! Last night the lots for this year's auction were previewed. Here are some impressions of the evening.

Head over to the gallery for more. https://gallery.glennbell.ca/artwithheart2023preview/

12/03/2022

An Evening of Story Telling, Voices for World AIDS Day 2022 - Guests and story tellers on the "Red Carpet"

Head over to the gallery if you want to see more images from the evening.

https://gallery.glennbell.ca/voicesforworldaidsday/

12/03/2022

An Evening of Story Telling - World AIDS Day 2022

For more images of the evening, check out the gallery.

https://gallery.glennbell.ca/voicesforworldaidsday/

10/19/2022

Art with Heart auction at AGO October 18, 2022.
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https://gallery.glennbell.ca/artwithheart2022auction/

Photo collection by Glenn Bell Photography

10/14/2022

Art with Heart is back! Photos here from last night's preview held at Cowley Abbott Fine Art. The auction will be next Tuesday at the AGO. I hear tickets are almost sold old. More information is availalbe at https://artwithheart.ca/
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Photo collection by Glenn Bell Photography

12/03/2018

10/21/2018

the Pride and Remembrance Run held a small event at Women's College Hospital in September, to distribute cheques from this year's run to some amazing community programmes. Here is a group shot. Head over to the gallery to see more at

Photo collection by Glenn Bell Photography