news! 'architects are assholes' stickers are now available at the concept design store, Vancouver Special at 3612 Main Street in Mount Pleasant. history
architects are assholes....because they have to be Picture it: Ottawa, 2003, I was in my second year studio at Carleton University's School of Architecture when I realized, architects are assholes. My first silk-screened tee shirt made its debut about a year later.
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My photography series Drive In will be installed at Main SkyTrain Station until spring/summer 2015! Statement:
Drive In is a series that was photographed during a 15 000km North American road trip in 2010. The series is a documentation of rural areas straining to keep up with current shifts in society, due to technological innovation and environmental effects. With an interest in the history and psychology behind place and popular culture, this series depicts overlooked landscapes and objects that struggle to retain their purpose within an evolving consumerist culture. Drive In examines the role of architecture in the modern world, its playfulness and the complex role it represents within North American culture and the natural environment. The architectural forms create a dialogue with the topography; while witnessing the fading pulse of an ideology that was based on an unsustainable model. This photography series is curiosity-driven, revealing echoes of what is left behind over time. Drive In explores the dialogue between architecture and its environment from a social perspective; of literal and metaphorical structures and the spaces it can unavoidably create around itself. Last month I photographed an outdoor installation for Matthew Soules Architecture in West Vancouver installed for this years Harmony Arts Festival. I went down to UBC for a site visit for an upcoming shoot and on the way home stopped at the Museum of Anthropology designed by Arthur Erickson to get a shot of the building as the sun was setting.   I made it over to two of the nearby islands this month for shoots.
Trying to make these trips a regular occurrence because it's nice getting away from the city. I had some time after a shoot today so I went down to Finn Slough in Richmond. I'd heard about this "shantytown" a few months ago and wanted to check it out. It was settled in the 1890s by some Finnish miners and loggers. An interesting bit, in keeping with Finnish tradition, one of the first buildings they constructed was a sauna. This place gives me ideas about design/build communities. It'll be cool to go back once everything's blooming again and see how it changes.  ArchDaily published a project last week that I photographed last summer for Public: Architecture + Communication. They designed transit shelters on campus at UBC. Check out more of Public's work, they're cool people.
The fine folks from Coast Modern sent me a copy of the newly released DVD. The packaging looks and feels great, and I'm looking forward to checking out all the extras. Get your own copy here.  I have a few photos of the Staples House in West Vancouver in an exhibition this month at the Charles H. Scott Gallery at Emily Carr University. The reception is Tuesday, August 6th at 7pm and is open to the public so please come by and check out the work!  Photography and the
West Coast Modern House August 7 to September 5, 2013 The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present Photography and the West Coast Modern House an exhibition that examines the relationship between photography and architecture from the 1950s to the present through the work of nine prominent photographers. The exhibition presents the work of Jim Breukelman, John Fulker, Arni Haraldsson, Krista Jahnke, Jack Long, Selwyn Pullan, Simon Scott, Martin Tessler, and Graham Warrington. Since the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century architecture has been a favoured subject as photographers documented the ever-changing urban landscape. Photography has continued to play and important role in promoting and popularizing architecture especially in the post-war period. Photographers were able to capture the innovations of modernist design such as post and beam construction that allowed for large open interior spaces, the emphasis on the flow between indoor and outdoor spaces and the relation of the modern house to its site. Beginning in the nineteen fifties, magazines like Western Homes and Living, commissioned photographers Graham Warrington, Selwyn Pullan and John Fulker to document the houses featured in the magazine. The photographs and accompanying texts allowed the average person to vicariously inhabit the spaces of these private residences and introduced them to the idea of modern living. Photographers not only popularized the new style, they also contributed to the success of local architects and helped West Coast residential architecture become internationally recognized. The exhibition Photography and the West Coast Modern House, brings together a selection of mid-century works by Graham Warrington, Selwyn Pullan and John Fulker with works by contemporary photographers Simon Scott, Martin Tessler and Krista Jahnke who continue in the tradition of Vancouver architectural photography. The exhibition also includes works by Jim Breukelman and Arni Haraldsson both of whom have produced photographic series' that explore a more intimate view of the modern house . In the late 1980's Breukelman produced a series of photographs of post-war Vancouver bungalows entitled Hot Properties. While Haraldsson photographed three important modern houses inhabited by Vancouver artists BC Binning, Jack Shadbolt and Gordon Smith. Exhibition curated by Greg Bellerby Opening Reception: Tuesday August 6, 2013 at 7:00pm Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/166256466891086/ |
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