Twenty-Odd Squares

A project collecting monochrome images taken with a worn Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera from the late-1940s.

A woman waits for the bus, her striped top echoing the shadows and geometry around her.
Commercial commuters No. 1
Detail of an automotive shop window, with the shadows of the letters stating hours cast on a flowing curtain.
Open 10am - 5pm
Rock formation, Joshua Tree
Rock formation, Joshua Tree
Artwork and ephemera left over from an exhibit.
Cattle Depot Artist Village
A man waiting for a train eyes a woman walking down the platform.
Commercial commuters No. 2
A pedestrian waits at a busy crossing. The traffic seems almost eerily organized.
Crossing
A dog waits at a gate. Or is it taking the view of the valley in?
Postcards from Salmon Arm No. 1
An older gentleman takes in the last light of the day on a bench on a pier in Vancouver.
Last rays on the pier
A woman and dog sit on a beach beneath a tire swing. The scale of the items in view is slightly compressed and hard to discern.
Lazing by the tire swing
An old boat is moored in a covered boathouse surrounded by barbed wire.
On River Road
A man with broom and dustbin is reflected in a mirror on Pender Street in Chinatown.
Keep Pender clean
Overlapping train flyways are reflected in shallow puddles.
Overpasses by the casino
An excited customer opens his bag of food at a classic burger joint. Pedestrians stand outside around the drive through menu to get a little of what he has.
Drive Thru
The layered structures of a wooden rollercoaster as seen through a tear in a blind.
Coaster
A woman carefully navigates the sidewalk in front of a shop window.
Watch your step
A rugged coastline viewed from a stand of trees.
Heceta Head Lighthouse
Layers of pedestrians pass at a busy Vancouver intersection.
Granville traffic
A weathered Joshua tree greets the desert morning.
Gamma Gulch
A an intersection in the oldest part of Vancouver
Gastown after the rain
Mannequins bare all. One wears a 50% off sign.
50% Off
People loiter casually under looming architectural features—bridges and a public art installation.
Evening at Westminster Pier Park
Pedestrians lazily proceed down a block festooned with neon signs and graffiti.
700 block East Hastings
A woman enters an intersection surrounded by older buildings. The Vancouver skyline is in the distance.
Under the Jack Chow sign
A lone person rides down a sunlit Gastown alley.
Gastown is pretty quiet these days
A battered and hastily repaired closed side hangs in a shop window.
Please Call Again

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