DTES
These Photos Helped Me Understand My Dad's Overdose Death
Photographer Jackie Dives talks about the double exposures that helped her process the grief of losing a parent to addiction.
Life Inside Vancouver’s Most Notorious Housing Block
Meet the tenants living in the city’s most complained-about single room occupancy hotels.
Portrait of a Crisis
We talk to users at the heart of the opioid crisis in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Renovictions on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Aren’t Stopping Anytime Soon
The York Rooms, a longstanding SRO in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, were recently renovated, and promptly reopened at nearly double the original rent. Now longtime DTES residents are railing against "renovictions"—a process by which landlords...
Lincoln Clarkes's Vintage Photographs of Vancouver's Female Addicts Are Incredible
When Lincoln Clarkes's Heroines series was first published and exhibited, public reaction was split: praised as humanizing a forgotten sector of society, and also condemned as exploitative and voyeuristic. We wanted to look back on the amazing...
