Nicole Bazuin

Nicole Bazuin is a Canadian photographer and documentary filmmaker, most noted for her creative collaborations with Andrea Werhun.[1]

The daughter of Dan Bazuin, a former owner of the Toronto independent bookstore This Ain't the Rosedale Library,[2] she began her career as a photographer and director of short films.

She first became widely known for her photographic illustrations in Werhun's book Modern Whore, a memoir of Werhun's time as a sex worker.[3] She then collaborated with Werhun on the short films Modern Whore and Last Night at the Strip Club, which further documented Werhun's sex work.[4]

In 2022, Werhun and Bazuin published an updated edition of the book version of Modern Whore.[5]

In 2023 she directed Thriving: A Dissociated Reverie, a short documentary film about artist Kitoko Mai.[6] The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.[7]

A full-length feature film expansion of Modern Whore is slated to premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

References

  1. ^ Wilson Kwong, "Fantasia Film Festival 2021: Interview With Director Nicole Bazuin Of LAST NIGHT AT THE STRIP CLUB". Film Inquiry, August 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Andrea Werhun and Nicole Bazuin, "Street Meat Stories". Hazlitt, June 9, 2022.
  3. ^ Patricia Kozicka, "Andrea Werhun: 'It’s a really good time to talk about sex work'". The Guardian, December 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Juan Barquin, "Fantasia 2021: The subversive erotic shorts of Botanicum Eroticorum". The Spool, September 1, 2021.
  5. ^ Radheyan Simonpillai, "All new Modern Whore is like The Godfather Part II of sex work memoirs". Now, May 3, 2022.
  6. ^ Gisselle Palomera, "Artist Kitoko Mai explores dissociative identity disorder through art". News Is Out, April 13, 2023.
  7. ^ Pat Mullen, "TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire". That Shelf, December 6, 2023.
  8. ^ Etan Vlessing, "Ben Proudfoot’s Obamas-Backed ‘The Eyes of Ghana’ to Open Toronto Fest Doc Program". The Hollywood Reporter, August 6, 2025.
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