Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
09/02/09 20:52 Filed in: Photography
Vancouver's downtown eastside is rough.
I spend a lot of time walking down there and
I've seen all sorts of madness from the bottom end of humanity.
Drug abuse makes people into husks. One
dimensional creatures with a simple agenda;
get more, do more, by whatever means. Crime is
rampant and the streets are full of characters
that you don't want to meet in an alley after
dark. I don't make eye contact often.
There is, however, a lot that I want to take pictures of. I've begun to get a little braver with the camera, and it comes out pretty much every day now, but I'm still not ready to take a picture of an addict in the middle of a psychotic speedball episode. It's not really what I'm interested in to be honest. It feels a little cheap to go looking for the truly depraved so that middle class folks can point at the pictures and say "that's the problem."
power.
cranes/lights.
rooms.
There is, however, a lot that I want to take pictures of. I've begun to get a little braver with the camera, and it comes out pretty much every day now, but I'm still not ready to take a picture of an addict in the middle of a psychotic speedball episode. It's not really what I'm interested in to be honest. It feels a little cheap to go looking for the truly depraved so that middle class folks can point at the pictures and say "that's the problem."
power.
cranes/lights.
rooms.