Vancouver 100- a photography collection by James M. Wise, explores Canada's premier Pacific coast city. Pender Street, Coal Harbour, Gastown, Yaletown, Granville Island, and Stanley Park, are just a few of the names that come to mind for those familiar with the city. The modern buildings provide for geometric subsets in photographic composition. The historic neighborhoods anchor the city in time. With previous experience taking and selecting one-hundred color photographs in Denver, Seattle, Lima, Santiago, Peru, and Chile, the work Vancouver 100 delivers a consistent style that both represents the subject and dismantles it into visual structural elements. For most places in the world, a single picture cannot embody the range of its nature. One-hundred photographs is perhaps the minimum and is still challenging to incorporate the maximum content of the subject area.
The pictures selected in Vancouver 100 spans a decade of exploring the city, taking images through the seasons. If pictures are like raindrops then many comprise a storm- and it does rains in Vancouver.