After 11 years of bringing you local reporting, the team behind the Vancouver Observer has moved on to Canada's National Observer. You can follow Vancouver culture reporting over there from now on. Thank you for all your support over the years!
Yukiko Onley is a portrait photographer. Her early training was as a painter. Her long association with the Canadian artist, Toni Onley, both during and after their marriage, has been a significant influence on her work.
Manabu Ikeda decided to come to Vancouver when he received a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture one year ago. He chose Vancouver, he says, because he wanted to see how people lived...
Kokoro Dance Wreck Beach Butoh performance is one of Vancouver's yearly summer events. I had the opportunity to photograph the rehearsal before the actual performance last month. It was a gray and...
He repeatedly said that what was most important to him was to explore his potential as an artist for the time left for him in this world, which he assumed would be about ten years.
She was so professional that whenever I pointed my camera at her, she changed into a performer. In other words, I could not photograph her just as a friend, a woman or a regular person.
He has much to say about the photographs I took of him. It's interesting to hear how he analyzes his own face, as if he is thinking of how he could paint it.
