{"id":17976,"date":"2017-08-01T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17976"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:00:56","slug":"all-you-need-is-love-stranded-photographers-want-to-document-your-moments-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/all-you-need-is-love-stranded-photographers-want-to-document-your-moments-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need is love: stranded photographers want to document your moments of happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

When a love is strong, it can be an unstoppable force \u2013 even if you\u2019re stranded in a van at Canadian Tire.
\nIt is helping to keep high the spirits of Portuguese photographers Sofia Alves and Ivo Tavares when their road trip across the Americas documenting love in all its forms hit a significant speedbump here in town over the weekend. But, every cloud has a silver lining and while they camp out in the Canadian Tire parking lot through the rest of this week, they want to hear from you.
\nDo you have a wedding in the next couple of days? Or maybe a birthday party for kid, or a new baby being brought home from the hospital? They are looking to document your love, free of charge, for their ongoing photography project World You Need Is Love.
\nThe couple loaded up their vintage white camper van in Sudbury, where Sofia was born and spent the first year of her life, in early July. Since then, they have been driving south, stopping in communities along the way, capturing moments of love throughout Ontario.
\nTheir journey, however, started much earlier \u2013 over two years ago when both swiped right on Tinder, the popular online dating app. They might have been separated by over 50 km at the time, but a connection is a connection and they pursued it \u2013 finding not only a love connection but a philosophical one as well.
\n\u201cIt is not very romantic, but it worked out!\u201d says Maria, making a statement with which, considering the growing popularity of the app, some might disagree. \u201cBut, we found that the news is always so bad. Every day there is news about war, people hurting \u2013\u201c
\n\u201cWalls,\u201d interjects Ivo.
\n\u201cAnd we decided love is all we need.\u201d
\nIvo says they are \u201cnot so na\u00efve to think all people are good, but most of us are good people, want to help, want to get along, and sometimes we forget that and the world becomes all dark.\u201d
\nSince they set out from Sudbury, they have been charting memories of a lifetime for people within the photographs, and sometimes images that, to some, might be fleeting moments.
\nThey just didn\u2019t expect to be on the receiving end of such help themselves. While looking for weddings and \u201cmoments\u201d in and around Aurora this week to contribute to the project, by Monday they had already been humbled by the generosity they experienced, whether it has been Canadian Tire making them feel at home or an area gym letting them use their showers to freshen up.
\nSo, if they set out to prove that sometimes we forget that \u2013 maybe it has proved that all is not lost.
\nTheir trip started up with a helping hand, reconnecting with friends in Sudbury who helped secure and kit out the van.
\nThey timed their journey just right so they could drive in Canada throughout most of July and into August, drive through the United Sates for the balance of this month and working their way through Mexico in September, before ending up in Brazil by December.
\nIn fact, they had already made it to Toronto by this past weekend but decided to double back to Aurora to catch a sunset when fate decided they should stick around.
\n\u201cThe people are fantastic,\u201d says Ivo of the journey so far. \u201cThe weather has been a little bit crazy, but so far so good.\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re happy to have started here in Canada, and even though we have had this problem, people have been amazing,\u201d adds Sophia.
\n\u201cThis van is my living room now!\u201d jokes Ivo. \u201cSo far, this van experience has been the most memorable.\u201d
\nIf you\u2019d like to top their van experience, have your moment of love documented for free and, in turn, share your love with the world, you can contact Ivo and Sofia through their website worldyouneedislove.com. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a love is strong, it can be an unstoppable force \u2013 even if you\u2019re stranded in a van at Canadian Tire.
\nIt is helping to keep high the spirits of Portuguese photographers Sofia Alves and Ivo Tavares when their road trip across the Americas documenting love in all its forms hit a significant speedbump here in town over the weekend. But…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2017-08-03-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4FW","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 04:38:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}