Words and Pictures - Photojournalism by Jerome Wakeland

This audio slideshow originally appeared on CanadianImmigrant.ca. And the 411 Senior’s Centre Society website has the complete interviews of all the participants.

I did the photography, audio and production of this piece.

Enjoy

I spent the last month working on Sherry Wiebe’s campaign in Vancouver - Mount Pleasant. It ended up being a lot of work, but I enjoyed meeting some very dedicated people in the community and in the campaign. I’m working on a piece that will be added to my projects page shortly.

I said I could take some pictures and write some stuff. So here are some pictures.

Broken Promises, about work-at-home and pyramid schemes has just been added to CanadianImmigrant.ca

Another of my articles, Business101 has been on for awhile.

Enjoy.

I miss mix-tapes.

I have only owned 4 vinyl records in my life, and I’ve never had to buy a record player, machine, turntable, whatever it was called.  I really entered music consumption as it turned from records to CDs, before we could burn a CD. So we had mix tapes.

The thing with a tape is that you couldn’t change the order of songs, couldn’t skip directly to the song on your mind. You had to go through the other songs, everything happened in a personalized version of its own time. So creating a mix-tape required some planning. One song had to flow into the next, a mood established, then sustained.

I also entered music consumption at about the same time I got my first car. So for me, a lot of good songs are linked to memories of places on the highway just outside the city.

New songs, new memories, same highway.

I’ve also just finished an article for the Canadian Immigrant print magazine on gangs in Vancouver. It should come out in the April edition. One of the things I didn’t get a chance to talk about in the article is a movie called ‘A Warrior’s Religion’ by Mani Amar. It’s a great documentary about the violence that has occured in the south asian community and taken the lives of over 100 young men.

To see some photos that I took, but that won’t be in the magazine

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Early in the morning of Friday March 20, the new year will begin for Persians (like my wife) around the world.
I wrote an article for Canadian Immigrant about the event.
It’s online now at : Celebrating Nowruz

A project that I did this past winter for Canadian Immigrant.ca is now online. In addition to writing an article, I got to put together a multimedia project joining my pictures with audio of the interviews. The story is about the Voices of Wisdom project that the 411Seniors Centre started in Vancouver to record the stories of people in the community.

It is online here : Voices Of Wisdom

My article on Goji berries and the Apollo Hollistic Centre in Lansdowne Mall is now online at CanadianImmiggrant.ca.

Tibet’s Best Berries

I went to the False Creek construction area with a fellow photographer today. The area is supposed to be called the Olympic Village or Millenium Waterfront or something like that, but the final name for the area is probably going to come from New Orleans.

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So it was cold, windy and wet. But quiet.

Boredom in Black and White.

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