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In Focus: Homeless Voyeurism

August 5, 2010

homeless-voyeurism-06_waferboardPerhaps 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

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In Focus: Personalizing Space

June 17, 2010

InFocus: Personalizing SpaceCity 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

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In Focus: Vancouver City Nights

April 15, 2010

infoucs_vancouvrnightsThese photos showcase some of the areas around the city of Vancouver at night.

Images and Statement by Kirk Takei

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In Focus: Margins of the Functional

March 18, 2010

aXoThis 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

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In Focus: Faces

December 24, 2009

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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

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In Focus: Buildings and signs from the Downtown East Side and Vancouver

December 3, 2009

18_denofreoThese photos are my favourite buildings and signs from the Downtown East Side and Vancouver.

Statement and Photos by David Denofreo

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In Focus: A note to let you know I got this far - Postcards, West End

September 30, 2009

in-foucs_a-note A visual essay looking at the associations between the physical environment and memory within the West End.

Statement and Photos by Dave Semeniuk

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In Focus: The Built Landscape

August 13, 2009

the-built-landscapeStatement 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

vancouver-fountainsStatement 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

ivan-oyarzun_cover…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

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