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Hope in Shadows: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in photos
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by Rob Peters | April 24, 2008 at 05:15 pm
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This Girl Is Passed Out In Alley Behind Hasting St. most likely from drugs
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Hope in Shadows began five years ago as a fund-raiser for Pivot. The premise was simple: distribute disposable cameras to Downtown Eastside residents for an annual photography contest. The winning images were published in a calendar, which residents could sell, and displayed in local galleries. Now, some of those pictures, along with the stories of their photographers, have been compiled by Geist magazine contributing editors Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome in the book Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (Arsenal Pulp Press.)
Working in collaboration with Pivot, Cran and Jerome hoped to continue the project's mandate of accurately representing the reality of the Downtown Eastside, which is most often seen through the perfunctory lens of a mainstream media eager to perpetuate the worst possible stereotypes about Canada's poorest postal code.
Book LaunchThe book launch for Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will be held tonight, April 24, in Vancouver at Gallery Gachet (88 E. Cordova) and will feature some of the original images from the original exhibitions from the past five years.
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at 18:18 on April 24th, 2008
Rob Peters, I like this story. It's good stuff.
It is a great project. I get the calander. Pictures you will not see anywhere else.
at 18:27 on April 24th, 2008
Unfortunately I've missed the calendar until this year...I'd like to get the book though. Thanks for the flag.