5+ Single Photo Category

In my project "Remember Me: Vancouver's DTES," self-directed, I documented homelessness and drug/alcohol addiction in Vancouver, Canada where I spent valuable time with individuals taking portraits of them within their familiar environments. These were more often than not the streets of downtown where working residents try hard to avoid. My aim was to try to help outsiders understand the difficulties these people face in daily life and how important their community is to them at a time when their community homes were being threatened by demolition due to the Olympic clean up. Most recently in my new work ‘Godhūlikāla: India’s forgotten Elders’, I travelled Northern India’s tribal villages and towns to seek out elders abuse, where I led my own group of translators and assistants to interview and photograph elders which ranged from government run care homes and personal homes to the streets. The work looks at the contrasting realities of elders with the traditional Indian home-life of younger generations looking after them, and in opposition elders who are forced out into poverty by their own children, or already in poverty and struggling families with hidden abuse situations. The work I completed over 2 months in 2014 only scratched the surface of what I want to achieve and so it is a long-term and ongoing piece of work. 'Malana Village' in India is another separate project which is also ongoing, documenting and taking interviews of people living in the village steeped in history and fascinating stories. A relatively unknown part of the world entirely isolated from the rest of India, hidden in the valleys of the Himalayas.