Brandon Fleming Urban Studies Graduate Student | GIS & Policy Analysis

Film

Nikon FE · 50mm f/1.8 · 28mm f/2.8

Shot on a Nikon FE with two primes. Black and white developed and scanned at home; colour is lab-processed negative film.

A green-shingled heritage corner building housing Arbutus Coffee, with a striped awning and a garden out front — Corner store that survived the block Arbutus Ridge

An empty sports hall with a single blurred figure mid-stride on a badminton court — Court one, mid-rally Surrey

Looking up at night between two recently built residential towers with curved stacked balconies, their undersides lit orange against a black sky — Two new towers, uptown between Martin and Foster White Rock

A BNSF locomotive approaching a level crossing beside the sea, tide out, pier in the distance — Southbound freight at the Cypress Street crossing White Rock

A small catamaran under sail close to shore, with people standing on the rocks watching — Catamaran coming in on the tide Boundary Bay

A SkyTrain arriving at an elevated platform, motion-blurred, destination sign reading Waterfront — Waterfront-bound, pulling in Gateway Station, Surrey

Wooden salmon cut-outs painted by schoolchildren wired to a fence above still water at golden hour — Painted salmon on the estuary fence Blackie Spit

The geodesic dome of Science World against a grey sky, a thin crescent moon above it — Science World as seen from the Expo Line False Creek

Downtown Vancouver glass office towers seen past a trolley bus at an intersection, an orange car in the foreground — Glass towers and the 44 UBC Express Seymour & Pender

Passengers descending a long escalator through a tiled vaulted tunnel lit by a single strip light — Down to the platform SkyTrain

The vertical neon sign of the St Regis Hotel photographed from below against a bright sky — Neon holding on Dunsmuir & Seymour

An orange excavator parked beside a boarded-up character house with a detached bucket on the lawn — Excavator waiting on a boarded-up bungalow Surrey

Two tall carved poles standing either side of a pair of stone interpretive plaques, with the sea and a long pier behind them — Coast Salish house post and Haida pole, above the pier White Rock