Jake Pitre

Jake Pitre is a journalist living in Ottawa. His writing can also be found at Movie Mezzanine, Sound On Sight and elsewhere. He doesn't think filmmaking can get any better than the "Everytime" sequence in Spring Breakers and he listens exclusively to Lana Del Rey.

Photography by Jake Pitre We all want to be noticed. We want to create and share, and receive recognition for our creations, if we can. When Rupi Kaur uploaded a picture on Instagram in January depicting a woman lying in bed with blood staining her pants, it didn’t seem likely that it would become the moment when the whole world noticed her.