Eastside Alleyway
Vancouver, 2012.
Bicycle Portrait: Paul Tolme
Paul Tolme – journalist, editor and Gates Carbon Drive media director – on a Trek District. Photographed in Bootleg Canyon, Nevada, 2012.
Urban Cowboy
Vancouver, 2012.
Rise Above the Necropolis
Here’s another shot from The Necropolis Cristóbal Colón in Havana. A stone city of almost one million dead, the Necropolis is an incredible place where life, death, art and spirituality converge.
Havana, Cuba, 2011.
Hastings / Carrall
Gastown, Vancouver, 2012.
Interview on Canadian Photography Online
Canadian Photography Online has posted a feature interview and gallery of my work. Have a read! Many thanks to T for the post.
Abandonment Issues
Some urban exploration in one of my favourite neighbourhoods in Vancouver – Strathcona – with my new camera, the Fuji X-E1. This house, at the end of a cul-de-sac and right off the tracks, fascinates me in it’s metamorphisis. I always wonder who lived here, what happened to the house, who lives there now and what is to become of this property. It’s a sweet spot in East Van…but it might be a tear down at this point. Curious about the history of this, and other properties like it, in a place where people clamour to live.
Strathcona, Vancouver, 2012.
El Caballero’s Electric Beard!
The “El Caballero de Paris” statue by José Villa Soberón at the Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis in La Habana Vieja. They say good luck comes to those who stroke the beard of this statue, a bronze representation of a famous street person (known locally as The Gentleman of Paris but whose real name was José María López Lledín) who roamed the streets of Havana in the 1950s. Looks like a jolt of existential electricity for the lucky few as well.
Havana, Cuba. 2011.
Bats in the Necropolis
The Bacardi family may have fled Cuba during the revolution, taking their rum making ways with them, but their plot at The Necropolis Cristóbal Colón in Havana remains an impressive collection of mausoleum, tombs and stone carved statues. All bound together by their trademark bat icons on the surrounding fence posts.
The Necropolis Cristóbal Colón, Havana, Cuba, 2011.
Renovations
Gastown, Vancouver, 2012.
Meeting Fires Creative 