photography

Do you have super-bad allergies this year?

April 13, 2010
By Susan Main

This drooping cluster of catkins is a culprit in your allergy suffering. I photographed this piece of a weeping birch tree in my parents’ yard in Marpole (which, in case you don’t know, is a neighbourhood in south Vancouver, B.C. near the Oak Street Bridge to Richmond). It took me a good bit of...

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Hope in Shadows book offers first-hand stories of life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

March 16, 2010
By Susan Main

Thanks to Vincent and his fellow vendors, people are getting an opportunity to learn about life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from folks who actually live there. All too often, especially during the Olympics, we hear stories from media outsiders who visit the neighbourhood for a short tour and then report all the bad things...

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