Analog photography from East Vancouver

I’m inspired by our built and lived in environment. I enjoy finding scenes that show the beauty of the human habitat as it degrades, is repaired, and is repurposed. Each piece looks at the beauty of the every-day parts of living in a city, and the battle between order and chaos that is taking place in the space we are all living in. There is an order and structure to a city, which at times seems to be barely holding together. The structure of a city is carefully built in and planned, neighbourhoods are zoned for certain uses, and streets are laid in carful grids. However, the inevitability of change and the chaos of life will have a great effect on this perfect plan. A successful space comes when these two forces form an equilibrium; a space planned at a human scale and molded by the people living in it. I hope to capture the merging of these two forces through my photography, while also evoking a feeling of wonder in a scene that you may have walked by dozens of time without giving it a second thought. My photography has made me feel more connected to the cities I’ve lived in, and I hope to share that feeling with others. My process is completely analog; using a variety of old cameras and analog processing. I find the intangibles of film can create a feeling of nostalgia in a modern scene. Using equipment of varying quality and age also allows me to experiment with different styles as I adjust to work with the limitations of my equipment.