jacque marie.
i met jacque at summer camp 7 years ago this summer. we’ve been best friends ever since. here are some photos i took of her last summer i finally got developed from her cabin on lake simcoe in ontario.
August 26, 2008
August 19, 2008
vakante in afrika.
i recently spent several weeks driving through southern africa with my friends jasper and leah.
it seems that, as westerns, the only africa we are really ever introduced to is that of aids, poverty and warfare, but the thing is, africa is a continent full of beauteous vacant land accompanied by laughter and smiles of those who occupy it.
with this being said i really wanted to try and photograph a side of africa not many people get to see. the vacant landscape of africa.
okok.
here are a few of them i took on mamiya.
May 22, 2008
The Cheaper Show no.8
On june 21st at the old storyeum place in gastown my friends are hosting the 8th annual cheaper show.
you should go here. for more details.
May 21, 2008
the wrap up.
here are a few photos of the final product of my grad project from a couple of weeks ago. it feel pretty nice to be able to do nothing for the first time in quite some time i must say… pheewwww…..
may 3rd was quite a surreal day… between the ceremony and the show and it being my birthday i’m glad i managed to survive it all with contentment.
April 27, 2008
the baker’s disease.
my friends are in a band. it’s called white lung. last sunday afternoon i took some photos of them for their 7″.
this is what a uk music magazine called wire had to say about them:
“Great Vancouver punk quartet that combines a sort of classic West Coast punk vocal sneer with early Riot Grrrl articulation and sheets of throbbing post-core guitar. At their best they sound like Bikini Kill doing a cover of Minor Threat’s cover of Wire’s “12XU”
you can see all of them HERE if you wish.
April 20, 2008
thank you thank you thank you thank you.
i would like to thank everyone and anyone who helped out with my show on saturday night. jen for lending us the space. adam for helping us set up. pascale for the door. everyone for showing up.. friends family. and everyone else.. julie for coming to the absolute rescue in an emergency. tony and tyler for playing lovely music. and mostly meghan for putting the entire thing together and making everything possible!
merci
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April 15, 2008
typical vancouver skyline.
two years ago my father came to visit me from montreal. one of the things he remarked about vancouver was the number of cranes that were tossed in the middle of the city skyline…since then i’m sure that number must have at least tripled. this is a photo of where the athletes village is going. there are 12 cranes in a one block radius.
April 10, 2008
sometimes i like to write haikus.
i’m no writer. but i’m in this creative writing class and sometimes i just really like the aesthetics of what i write.
these are some haikus. on a polaroids… from a slides… i took in bellingham several years ago.
April 3, 2008
GANGofYOUTH.
back in the summer on a late tuesday night in english bay, meghan patterson approached me on the side of the street and asked if i wanted to be part of her opening show for her new gallery called Mercy Gallery… (she wanted to have big party to celebrate this new venture and thought the irony of having party photos at a party would be rather clever)
we got together in the fall and made a date in early december to have this event, however do to complications we now finally are going to make it happen. on saturday april 19th meghan’s nomadic gallery will present it’s first show at this really rad space on drake and richards.
it will not only be a solo show, but it will be my first show ever…i’d really like if you came. there’ll be music and beer and wine!!! and will probably go late!
ok great!
ps. i would like to inform all those people who have negative opinions towards what i do.. and most likely will dislike the idea of this show, i never, not once, said what i did was art. i never said, or ever thought that i had talent or was trying to prove some artistic concept, i simply documented the moments of our youth so you could go and post them on your facebook or myspace page…(it really doesn’t get much more deep than that) everyone has the right to their opinion and i completely respect that, but before you go into combat with this whole thing i’d appreciate you research your battle first. it doesn’t take much to see that every other kind of photography i do goes well beyond the wide-angle lense of a digital slr….
April 2, 2008
leah and jasper #2.
i decided, (even though i thought they turned out wonderful the first time. to re-shoot leah and jasper because they were slightly underexposed the first time around…. they turned out so wonderul yet again.
yesterday jasper left for africa for five month. he does things like that. leah plans on visiting him during the summer. she does things like that. they are perfect.
