This fantastic project is ready to launch again this year in the DTES. Kudos to everyone involved:
Downtown Eastside photo contest participants hope to portray unique side of community
Straight.com
June 2, 2011When Lillian Fletcher returns her camera to Hope in Shadows organizers this weekend, she hopes it will paint a unique picture of the Downtown Eastside.
“I want to portray beauty, I want to portray the potential, I want to make people see beyond what’s immediately obvious,” she told the Straight.
Fletcher was one of 200 recipients of single-use cameras Tuesday (June 1) as Pivot Legal Society launched their annual Hope in Shadows photography contest.
The competition is intended to portray the Downtown Eastside through the eyes of low-income residents of the neighbourhood.
Top photos in categories such as best landscape, best portrait and best community photo are chosen, and a selection of prize-winning images are featured in a calendar sold by homeless and low-income vendors around Vancouver.
Portraying aspects of the neighbourhood that other Vancouver residents may not be familiar with is a key goal of the project, according to project coordinator Carolyn Wong.
“Of course there are a lot of struggles that this community experiences, and there’s a lot of brokenness down here,” Wong told the Straight. “But there’s a lot of dignity, respect for one another, working together for social justice, and things like that.”
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Check out his photo essay of the main handout on Pivot's Flickr page
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