I had let the Globe and Mail know I’d be available to shoot any street celebrations/reaction to the men’s ice hockey gold medal game between Canada and the U.S. at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics yesterday. Well, sometime into the third period I got an email saying they had an open page and needed it covered. Gear and laptop a couple feet away, I ran out of my friends apartment in Gastown and across to the Lamplighter Pub with only seconds left in the game. Thank god a timeout was called and I showed up with time to spare. (Props to the bouncers at the Lamplighter for letting me in)

It was unbelievable feeling the energy in the bar and was a roller-coaster of emotion after a devastating goal the USA scored to tie it up, and an epic OT goal by Sidney Crosby to bring home the gold. Then I was off to Granville St. to document the huge crowds celebrating in the streets, I don’t think I have ever seen anything quite like it…..

I think the photos speak for themselves……An epic day for all Canadians, especially the huge hockey fans such as myself!!!!!!!!

And here’s how the photos got played…A3 and BC Section Front.

Check them out in the free online edition of the Globe here http://eedition.globeinvestor.com/

I worked with journalist Johan Anderberg last week in Vancouver for Sydsvenskan newspaper out of Malmö, Sweden. We covered a bunch of issues dealing with the City of Vancouver and the Olympics.

Cover of the paper.

Thousands of people met outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on February 12th to protest the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Les Merson is the director and co-producer of the documentary film Street Sisters, which follows the lives on nine Aboriginal women on the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

David Eby is the Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Kate Kroll (left), and Melissa James made a film called “No Fun City” about the underground music scene in Vancouver.

Thousands of Team Canada fans take to the streets to celebrate Wednesday night on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver after Canada’s 7-3 over Russia in Men’s Hockey.

I shot the Olympic Torch Relay for a corporate client on its final day yesterday as it came down Broadway in Vancouver. It was so cool to see so many kids and families out celebrating. Despite everyone’s thoughts about the many issues surrounding the Olympics and how it will affect Vancouver for some time to come, it was great to see everyone together showing their national pride. I had a bit of tough job running along with the torch (other photogs were in a truck in front of the torch-runners) as the Olympic torch-protector guys made it clear I was not supposed to be running along with them, but managed to get off a couple of good shots before it was over.

Noted West Coast Architect Paul Merrick, pictured in his workshop at his home in Sooke, BC on January 12, 2010.  Brett Beadle for the Financial Times.

Paul was a really great person to have met and photographed and I fell in love with his home out in Sooke.  It’s rural, close to the ocean, has lots of evergreen trees, and has lots of space for his and his wife’s pets (A sheep, two goats, and 3 dogs).  Really an inspiration in terms of what I would like my future home to look like.

To learn about more about his background and specifically Vancouver architecture, check out this article from The Walrus: http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.09-architecture-almost-grown-vancouver-paul-merrick-melora-koepke/

Plaza de la Constitución – Huancayo, Peru

I feel bad for our North American pigeons sometimes.  Well not that often. Not when they are trying to steal my food at Granville Island. But man do those South American pigeons have it good with their beautiful town Plazas to hang out it at, where people feed them all day long. These photos really take me back to another man who fed pigeons that I photographed in Leon, Nicaragua this spring. It still pains me to think about the fact that those rolls of Tri-X I shot on my Hasselblad are probably rotting, undeveloped, in a dump in Managua somewhere. Losing three months worth of work that you love is a feeling I can’t quite relate to anything else.

Back in October, I had a magazine assignment for the January edition of Canadian Living Magazine the day I flew out to Peru, and it just came out on newsstands. It was a pretty crazy day, not only packing up my apartment for the sub-letter, but organizing my gear for the shoot and the 6-week trip I was about to depart on. But, you make it work….All shots natural light and either on 35mm 1.4 or 50mm 1.4


These two taken on my camera phone yesterday, and below a few of the shots I filed to the magazine.