Since 2003, the Hope in Shadows photography contest has chronicled life in Vancouver’s hard-bitten Downtown Eastside community — celebrating the souls that inhabit the area in an annual calendar. The ...

For more than two decades, the annual Hope in Shadows calendar has showcased photographs taken by residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This year’s theme is: “It’s a beautiful day in ...

“After conducting a scan of VPD policy and training materials, there is nothing directing members to employ or adhere to ...

Back in the 1990s, when the Downtown Eastside was breaking under the AIDS epidemic and the arrival of intravenous cocaine, Ann Livingston cofounded the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU ...

The Hope in Shadows photo contest began Tuesday (June 1) with the distribution of 200 cameras to Downtown Eastside residents.

Residents of the Downtown Eastside were given disposable cameras and asked to document what they saw—the experiences, the love, the loss… but most of all the persistence of the human spirit.

1:43 Downtown Eastside residents pose for family photos as annual tradition returns People living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside got the chance to smile for the camera and get their picture ...

It's become a Christmas tradition: photographers and make-up artists volunteering to take portraits of some of Vancouver's most vulnerable people. For 2016, it came at a dark time in the history ...

Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis. When Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside became the subject of international press coverage last week, locals snapped to attention.

The City of Vancouver says it has come up with funding to keep two programs that help keep the Downtown Eastside’s streets free of human waste — at least until the end of the year.. Earlier ...

Since 2003, the Hope in Shadows photography contest has chronicled life in Vancouver’s hard-bitten Downtown Eastside community — celebrating the souls that inhabit the area in an annual calendar. The ...