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IT'S SPRING AGAIN, PART I
Saturday,
April 23, 2005 - Christopher DeWolf
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : TRIPLEX LIFE,
ESPLANADE STREET, MILE END.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : EASTER SUNDAY AT
JEAN-TALON MARKET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : CHEAP STRAWBERRIES
AT JEAN-TALON.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : PONDERING THE
PEACHES, JEAN-TALON.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : AN EARLY SPRING
TRADITION: TIRE D'ÉRABLE.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : BASKING IN THE
SUN, ESPLANADE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : CELEBRATING PURIM
ON HUTCHISON STREET.
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last month's posts.
POSTERS, SIGNS AND GRAFFITI
Thursday,
April 15, 2005 - Christopher DeWolf
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : POSTER ON
ST-LAURENT BOULEVARD.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : POSTERS ON
ST-LAURENT BOULEVARD.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : SEGAL GROCERY
STORE, ST-LAURENT BLVD.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STENCIL GRAFFITI
ON A PLATEAU DOOR.
MONTREAL, Feb. 05 : POSTER ON
ST-LAURENT BOULEVARD.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : GAS STATION AT
ST-DENIS AND PINE.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : ST-DENIS STREET
NEAR CARRÉ ST-LOUIS.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : GARAGE DOOR, DE
GASPÉ STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : POSTER ON
ST-LAURENT BOULEVARD.
Head to the archives for
last month's posts.
SHANGHAI
vs. SHENZHEN
Tuesday,
April 5, 2005 - Christopher DeWolf
Shanghai. Photo by Bradley
Glass.
Shanghai is the new urban
frontier. Its days as a treaty port shrouded in the smoke of
vice and opium left it with a legacy of mysterious old streets
and hybrid architecture, not to mention a reputation as a pulp
fiction paradise. But years of vengeful rule under Mao Zedong
― Shanghai was not the Communists' favourite city, to say the
least ― left it a pallid and emaciated shell of a city. Since
economic liberalization, however, it has reemerged as en
epicentre of culture, commerce and, well, greed. Forget the
dishearteningly sterile new development of Pudong: the real
heart of the city is Puxi, a wire-filled mess of luridly
ornate old buildings, new skyscrapers and pretentious hipsters
clad in ironic black Mao suits.
 
Shenzhen. Photos by Bradley
Glass.
In stark contrast to
Shanghai's clamour is Shenzhen, the border metropolis of
several million that has arisen almost entirely within the
past twenty years. China's initial free-market experiment ―
Hong Kong is right next door ― it is an almost surreal
assortment of lego-block housing estates, massive big box
stores and theme parks (of which Shenzhen has the most in the
world). Bradley Glass, a graduate student of urban planning at
the University of Albany, captures the divide perfectly in his
ongoing series of photos taken in China's cities on the
Skyscraper Forum, a portion of which can also be seen at
Bradley's PBase gallery. Bradley, who previously attended
school in Boston, is also responsible for a very thorough and
comprehensive collection of Boston neighbourhood photos.
The last featured
photographer was Segun Dent.
Head to the archives for
last month's posts
STUDENTS EN GRÈVE!
Monday,
April 4, 2005 - Christopher DeWolf
For more than a month,
hundreds of thousands of students across Quebec have been on
strike to protest a cut to student bursaries. Students from
some universities and most cégeps (a two-year college that
replaces the last year of high school and the first year of
university) have organized dozens of marches and protests in
Montreal, venting their anger against the premier of Quebec,
Jean Charest.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Mar. 05 : STUDENTS ON
STRIKE, SHERBROOKE STREET.
MONTREAL, Feb. 05 : ST-LAURENT CÉGEP,
ON STRIKE.
MONTREAL, Feb. 05 : STUDENTS OCCUPY
ST-LAURENT CÉGEP.
Head to the archives for
last month's posts.
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