Career
Labonté resides in Montreal with a Staffordshire bull terrier named Marcy. He is best known for his first book All City: The Book About Taking Space (2003) that documents the world of graffiti and includes interviews with celebrated yet anonymous graffiti writers. Labonté operates an independent publishing and book packaging company called Second Hand Projects (2002) and serves as a consultant and curator to major lifestyle, street, sport and cultural brands via the branding agency The Mill House.
Labonté has been a WeSC Activist since 2010.
Labonté’s ability to capture stories and images simultaneously both from the vantage point of an outsider-voyeur and insider-member informs much of the tension and uniqueness of his work. Turfizm, 2009 Ice T shot me in the face, 2009 Out for fame, Group Show - Out for fame exhibit, McGill Architecture, 1997 Never alone, Group Show Redbull/381 projects, Toronto Redbull gallery, 2008 Photographs inspired by the rap music that once inspired me, Solo Show, Ottawa, 2009 Getting Up, Group Show & Curator, Ecko getting up festival Toronto, 2009 Contrast Show, Group Show, Contact festival Toronto 356 king west, 2011 Sometimes I take the pictures, Solo Show, Catalogue gallery Vancouver, 2011.
