Later this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit the White House.
Trade and climate issues are expected to be the focus of his trip, which is the first official visit to the building by a Canadian prime minister in several years.
Whatever happens between Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama, one Kitchener man will be there to document it all.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Taylor Jones said Monday in an interview.
On a whim, Jones entered an online contest for an invitation to photograph the meeting between the two leaders.
A week later, he received an invitation from Obama in his inbox.
“It’s really an honour, and I’m really looking forward to taking some good shots at the White House,” he said Monday.
“It’s an honour just to be able to stand on the grounds of the White House – let alone being encouraged to take photos.”
Jones is the founder of Dear Photograph, a website which invites people to hold up their old photographs in the locations where they were taken, then snap a shot showing the old and the new.
He says he hasn’t been given any specific directions of what to shoot, and says he’ll be ready for whatever happens – both with his camera, for taking the photos, and his social media accounts, to publicize them.
