Words and Pictures - Photojournalism by Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog Insightful Articles. Compelling Images. Complete Stories. Mon, 25 May 2009 17:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en Voices of Wisdom - Audio slideshow http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/voices-of-wisdom-audio-slideshow/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/voices-of-wisdom-audio-slideshow/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 17:58:21 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=227 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

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/voices-of-wisdom-audio-slideshow/feed/ Working on a campaign http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/working-on-a-campaign/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/working-on-a-campaign/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 02:02:33 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=218 sherrywiebe_cherryblossoms.jpg 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.

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/working-on-a-campaign/feed/ Two new articles on CanadianImmigrant.ca http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/two-new-articles-on-canadianimmigrantca/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/two-new-articles-on-canadianimmigrantca/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 02:53:01 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=214 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.

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/05/two-new-articles-on-canadianimmigrantca/feed/ One day on the road http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/one-day-on-the-road/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/one-day-on-the-road/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:05:18 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=206 One hand on the wheel 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.

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Replica handguns and submachine guns that have been seized by Vancouver's Youth/Gang squad

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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I wrote an article for Canadian Immigrant about the event.
It’s online now at : Celebrating Nowruz

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/happy-nowruz/feed/ Voices of Wisdom Photo Essay now online http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/voices-of-wisdom-photo-essay-now-online/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/voices-of-wisdom-photo-essay-now-online/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:30:44 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=193 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

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/03/voices-of-wisdom-photo-essay-now-online/feed/ Tibet’s Best Berries now on CanadianImmigrant.ca http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/02/tibets-best-berries-now-on-canadianimmigrantca/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/02/tibets-best-berries-now-on-canadianimmigrantca/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:19:22 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=191 My article on Goji berries and the Apollo Hollistic Centre in Lansdowne Mall is now online at CanadianImmiggrant.ca.

Tibet’s Best Berries

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/02/tibets-best-berries-now-on-canadianimmigrantca/feed/ False Creek, but true colours http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/01/false-creek-but-true-colours/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/01/false-creek-but-true-colours/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:45:47 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=177 Cranes

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.

In the Garden District of New Orleans are a group of houses called ‘Freret’s Folly’. Freret was a developer who sunk a bunch of money into the construction of one block of five houses in 1861. Then the U.S. Civil War stopped construction. By the time the houses were completed, after the war, all his projected profits were gone.

Great idea, bad timing, all the money gone. Freret’s Folly.

So ‘folly’ should definitely be in the area’s name, now it’s just a matter of who gets attached to it. Vancouver’s Folly? Sullivan’s?

]]> http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/01/false-creek-but-true-colours/feed/ A day at the beach http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/01/a-day-at-the-beach/ http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/2009/01/a-day-at-the-beach/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:23:48 +0000 Jerome Wakeland http://jeromewakeland.com/blog/?p=153 So it was cold, windy and wet. But quiet.

Boredom in Black and White.

Click on any picture to get into the Gallery

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