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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people, some pushing shopping carts with their belongings, lined up on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Saturday morning hoping to enter a photography contest. They were vying for one ...

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 ...

Downtown Eastside photo booth gives Alberta man hope of finding lost brother. ... Bruce Sauer is photographed on East Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Wednesday, Feb, 13, 2013.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city’s troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new supportive housing units. Updated Jan. 23, 2025 ...

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 ...