In Focus: Homeless Voyeurism
August 5, 2010
Perhaps the fascination is the difference from our normal day-to-day lives. We’re repulsed, but we feel sorry for them. We don’t want them around, but feel we should help. Somehow. Some of them are very resourceful in their use of materials. Some are plain crazy, or have priorities very, very different from ours.
Images and Statement by waferboard
In Focus: Personalizing Space
June 17, 2010
City spaces are at once permanent and ephemeral. This photo essay looks at the how our spaces are used in unexpected ways.
Images and Statement by Lisa Parker
In Focus: Vancouver City Nights
April 15, 2010
These photos showcase some of the areas around the city of Vancouver at night.
Images and Statement by Kirk Takei
In Focus: Margins of the Functional
March 18, 2010
This series of photos was taken in and around Vancouver over the last two years. Filtered from over two hundred images, I selected these as the core of an exhibition I called “Development: A Pedestrian View”, my first solo showing of photographic works which was mounted at Britannia Art Gallery in January 2010.
Statement and Photos by aXo
In Focus: Faces
December 24, 2009
I’ve had the idea of doing wide angle, unflattering portraits for a while now. It’s an interesting way to see a version of yourself.
Statement and Photos by David Denofreo
In Focus: Buildings and signs from the Downtown East Side and Vancouver
December 3, 2009
These photos are my favourite buildings and signs from the Downtown East Side and Vancouver.
Statement and Photos by David Denofreo
In Focus: A note to let you know I got this far - Postcards, West End
September 30, 2009
A visual essay looking at the associations between the physical environment and memory within the West End.
Statement and Photos by Dave Semeniuk
In Focus: The Built Landscape
August 13, 2009
Statement and Photos by Sean Orr
I’m not a photographer who readily predetermines defined areas of focus or themes, however since I always have my camera with me, those areas tend to reveal themselves with any change in my daily routine. Ergo, after getting a new job in the downtown core, my focus has shifted away from the back alley bricks of Gastown and towards the curious spaces found in the CBD. Read more
In Focus: Photos of some of Vancouver’s fountains at night
August 6, 2009
Statement and Photos by the Fountainman
Many, if not most, of Vancouver’s fountains have their own lighting which can really change their appearance after the sun goes down, sometimes quite dramatically. Read more
In Focus: Ivan Oyarzun/Selected Images
June 25, 2009
“…the sectors of the city are to some extent decipherable but the personal meaning they have had for us is incommunicable…we are seperated from the city by our own non-intervention.”
- Guy Debord
(Critique de la Seperation: Paris 1961)
You can approach the city as a Flaneur, capturing images and engaging with the city in a way that places the changes you see in a ‘romantic’ light. Navigating through spaces with some visual intention gathering ’scenes’ to define the city in your own image or you may feel that the city should be understood anonymously as a ‘passer-by’ creating a visual language that forms a narrative of urban life: As a ‘Usager de la Ville’ who acts similarly to the Flanuer. Read more
