Vancouver Street Photography Collective’s First Magazine
We would like to introduce you to our very first Magazine showcasing some of the many talented members of the Vancouver Street Photography Collective. The VANSPC started in 2019 with a small group of photographers with a shared interest in street photography. In the past year, we have grown to over 30 members, have had both gallery and virtual exhibitions, and created a website. This is our latest effort to showcase the work of our members and celebrate street photography in Vancouver.
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Zine #2: Film Street Photography
This Zine is a celebration of street photography shot using film. From black and white images to vibrant colour, film provides a tactile experience that is impossible to achieve through digital photography. The VanSPC members who appear in this Zine have varying reasons for shooting with film. For some, it’s a call back to their childhood and memories of film cameras used to record family milestones and events while others are finding new inspiration with film. In some instances, the appeal of film is centered around the process of matching a particular film with a camera; an exploration of how the two interact. In other instances, film itself has magical qualities that can transform an ordinary scene into something noteworthy and evocative. Indeed, the imperfections and grain common in film photography can provide another layer of interest and uniqueness that are absent in digital images. While each photographer has their own reasons for using film, there is a shared affection for analogue photography that we hope comes across in the images selected for this Zine.
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Zine #5: Street Photography as Performance
Street photography is about the relationship between the photographer, their camera and the environment. In the words of Alex Soth ‘I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.’ Every time we pick up a camera, be it digital, film or phone, we engage in this performance. We encounter people, buildings, light, shadow, movement, stillness, gestures, and emotion and record those encounters in the form of an image.
Our fifth photo magazine features 42 VanSPC members, each with their unique approach to street photography. Some of the images are documentary, recording a specific time and place, the people in that space, their actions, relationships and emotions. Other photos are more abstract, disconnected from a specific time and place, evocative of a mood or atmosphere. In the end, it is the street that we use as our model, playing with colour, light, movement and expression in order to capture an image that represents our unique vision. In this sense, street photography is more than simply creating images, it is about that ever changing performance of encountering the everyday through the lens of a camera.