“It is not easy to capture on film the spirit of a modern metropolis like Vancouver. Compared to an historic city, the scale can be daunting, the spaces between the buildings often have less coherent form and the simple lines of contemporary architecture offer less detail for the camera. Yet Mike Chadwick has found a way, and the results are remarkable. He zeroes in on the rhythms, the textures, the intricacies. He discovers the best moments of our watery light and deep shadows. He shoots the arresting angle. And he finds the interfaces that matter: old and new, building and landscape; water and land; sky and skyline. The result is an intelligent story about several generations of city planning and urban design, and a delicious feast for the eye.”
- Larry Beasley, Vancouver Planning Director and recipient of the Order of Canada for lifetime achievements in urbanism
“An elegant photographic survey of downtown Vancouver, Vancouver in Focus adds to the growing visual library of Vancouver’s emerging urban environment, with a comprehensive collection of evocative black and white photographs.”
- Lance Berelowitz, author of Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
“A city is like a child that can grow up right before us yet we fail to recognize all its qualities and accomplishments. But visiting friends and family notice, and remark how tall, smart or entertaining our child is becoming. As parents, we quickly dismiss this as mere politeness.
Well, Mike Chadwick has forced us to re-examine our child ‘Vancouver’ and re-evaluate the architecture that has grown up right in front of us. A friend to Vancouver, he lets us all witness the growth of our child. Mike makes Vancouverites acknowledge a job well done.”
- Bob Rennie, Principal of Rennie Marketing Systems
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