Fotoeins Fotografie

In 1941, about 2 out of every 3 of farmers’ stalls in Seattle’s Pike Place Market were operated by Japanese-Americans. Today, there are none. The United States government’s Executive Order 9066 forever changed the Pike Place Market and the lives and families of 120-thousand Americans. This tragedy is illustrated by paintings above the entrance.

Northwest view from Seattle’s Discovery Park, along South Beach to the waters of Puget Sound and West Point Lighthouse; also in Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike”. The Lushootseed word for Puget Sound is x̌ʷə́lč (hwultch/Whulge/Whulj), meaning “saltwater” or “sea”.

Pearl Jam recorded their debut alum “Ten” in this recording studio in Shoreline near Seattle (IG).

Facing southwest near the Alki Beach Park Bathhouse, this area north of present-day Alki Point was relatively flat, known to the indigenous Duwamish as “sbaqʷábaqs“, which is the Lushootseed word for “prairie point”.

In Seattle’s Licton Springs Park, the natural spring shown here was the first native landmark recognized by the city of Seattle as an official historic landmark in 2019. The Lushootseed word “líqtəd” means “red paint” (IG).

“Soujourner Truth”, in a series of paintings by artist Hiawatha D, highlighting and honouring black women in American history and exhibited in Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum.

Seattle’s Pioneer Square district, at the corner of S Washington St at Occidental Ave S. Facing northeast, clockwise from left: Seattle National Bank Building (1890-1892), Columbia Center (1982-1985), Smith Tower (1911-1914), Seattle Seahawks’ 12s (team 1975-present).

Just after sunrise, a family of raccoons (Procyon lotor pacificus) is on the search for breakfast. Simon Fraser University campus on the summit of Burnaby Mountain (IG).

Facing northwest on Burnaby Mountain, I made this nighttime image of Comet Neowise’s nucleus and tail, both illuminated by sunlight; the comet was about 206-million km from Earth. Also visible at bottom left are noctilucent clouds high in our atmosphere. How our planet developed a water-rich environment has likely origins in comets delivering a significant fraction of water during the early evolution of the Earth (IG).

In downtown Vancouver, at the corner of Howe & West Hastings.

Will everything be all right in Vancouver’s Chinatown? Who’s asking, and who decides? (IG).

In Vancouver’s Chinatown, at the corner of East Pender & Columbia (IG).

Bicoastal connections, in an exhibition in Vancouver’s Chinatown about the history of Chinese-Canadians and their rightful place in the city’s and nation’s history (IG).

From Lumberman’s Arch (left), facing north across Burrard Inlet to the North Shore mountains. As evidence of indigenous settlement thousands of year before European colonization, large middens filled with the detritus of discarded shellfish were found in this area.

Indigenous Coast Salish peoples once lived here and dug for shellfish along the peninsula’s shoreline (IG).

Upper pitch at Brockton Oval, which typically sees league matches on summer weekends, but remained quiet for the entire summer in 2020.

Left: Victory Square, 1886; Cenotaph WWI memorial, 1924. Right: Dominion building, 1910 (IG).

“The city before the city”: Musqueam village and burial site.

Afternoon, 3 days before Christmas: check-in area for U.S. flights at Vancouver international airport during the global Covid-19 pandemic.