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First place “Woman & Son” by Jo Mangatal
and “Playground” by Russ Zillman. The top
prize of $500 was shared between a husband and wife
this year. Jo and Russ swapped their cameras by mistake,
and the top shots were on the same camera.
Lori Dunn reports on
the impressive Hope In Shadows Retrospective Exhibition
and how it tops off a successful calendar project.
The Hope in Shadows
retrospective exhibition of the best exhibition photographs
from the past three years opened at the prestigious
Pendulum Gallery on West Georgia Street with a gala
evening on December 8.
Speakers included Pivot Foundation’s
Deb Abbey, Ann Cowan, SFU executive director, and the
Honorable Mr. Thomas Berger O.C., Q.C. Berger also announced
the launch of a new B.C. Pro Bono Award which will recognize
the highest impact pro bono efforts of lawyers and law
firms.
The huge aluminum pendulum silently swings above the
Hope In Shadows Retrospective Exhibition in the HSBC
Building, 885 West Georgia Street.
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The
2006 Hope In Shadows calendar was launched
at the Downtown Eastside Photography Contest award ceremony
at the Carnegie Centre on September 26. Guest presenters
included DiVinci City Hall actors Venus Terzo and Stephen
Miller, who helped hand out $3,000 in prize money to
the top photographers.
Training for calendar street sellers began
in the Carnegie Centre after the ceremony. The training
took on a new local dimension this year, as one of the
top sellers from 2004, Thomas Cleough, was recruited
as a trainer. Between late September and the middle
of December, Cleough and Kathryn Colby did the street
sales training.
Cleough brought in many local people to
be trained, resulting in a 20 percent increase in sellers
from last year – a total of 120 people.
Thomas Cleough (right) teaches the calendar sales class
at LifeSkills. More than 120 people were trained between
late September and the middle of December.
Like previous years, new
sellers received training on how to sell, a free calendar
and an official photo ID City License – printed
from a laptop to a portable printer and laminated before
each training session ended. After the first day, training
was held twice a week at LifeSkills, who generously
provided the facilities to Pivot.
In November, the winning
photos from this year’s contest were shown in
a three week exhibition at the Portland Hotel Society’s
Interurban Gallery. More calendar street sales training
took place there during opening hours, giving the exhibition
an interactive feel.
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