Monthly Archives: September 2013

Portrait: The pipe maker

When I was first getting into street photography, and truth be told back into photography after a short hiatus in the early 2000s, I took my old Konica SLR with kit lens and expired Minolta film down to the DT East Side often, taking portraits and capturing some unique insights into the people who live and work there. In this case, an elderly man who may be long passed away now, some 7-8 years later. He sat quiet, carving pipes with a dollar store x-acto knife.

“I also fix watches, but I prefer to work with wood”

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Design: Promotional work for artist Tasha Zimich

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I’ve worked a little with Tasha in the past as she has supplied artworks for previous issues of ABORT Magazine (Namely #20, #21, and upcoming Issue #22). Having booked a table in New York next month for ComicCon, she needed some promotional materials for her table, and contacted me to do three separate designs with her artwork as the feature, much like the cover designs of the past, I was more than happy to work on this project.

Promotional poster

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Concert: DJ Eclectik – RedBull Thre3style Qualifier: Vancouver2013

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I’ve worked with DJ Eclectik for the past few years, but this was the first time during his work as a world class DJ. He runs Mount Pleasant Optometry by day, and is an exceedingly talented musician by night. He gets the crowd going, and has a LOT of fun doing it. When I shoot DJs or clubs, it’s usually a departure from my regular style, but all images are still straight from camera.

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Concert: Snoop Dogg and Snoop Lion

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Over the years I have been fortunate enough to photograph Snoop three times in concert, and once, quickly during an interview after the only show in Vancouver I haven’t shot in the last six years. The first was when I was still cutting my teeth, and my first BIG hiphop star back at the Commodore Ballroom. He came again, to the Pacific Colliseum, and didn’t sell out, so next time it was back to the Commodore twice in two years, and to the past outing, reincarnated as a Lion, at The Malkin Bowl in Stanley park, which I have usually covered acts in pouring rain. No such luck this time, though the rain came later that night.

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