“The 2010 Memory Festival is a collaboration between the Roundhouse Community Centre, the Simon Fraser University Writing and Publishing Program and Geist magazine.
The Vancouver Memory Festival was founded by the Vancouver Memory Collective in 2006 as a free-floating series of public events that focus on public and private memory. At the heart of this endeavour lie questions of remembering, forgetting and the nature of memory itself.
Past participants and past co-sponsors include the Listel Hotel, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacements, Vancouver Quilters’ Guild, TheTyee.ca, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and others.”

I just found out about this. It ended yesterday.

Visual Research as a Collaborative and Participatory Practice
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Traditionally, visual research has been framed as a representational practice, different from, but equally valid to other representational practices (scientific, literary, etc). The 2011 International Visual Sociology Association Conference provides an opportunity to explore what it means to engage in visual research as a collaborative and participatory practice rather than simply a representational practice. Considering visual research as collaborative and participatory suggests new ways of working together and offers opportunities to think productively about alternative inquiry practices, analytical frames, and dissemination possibilities.

I wanted to shoot portraits (glamour/fashion) as soon I got interested in photography… I only rely on natural lighting and I don’t have any studio lights not even a strobe (flash) I always use all those things as an excuse for me not to take portraits… When I see an outstanding portrait… I always tell my self that it’s only because of the awesome studio lighting, expensive camera equipment, kick ass make-up artist, stylist and photoshop artist working together with the photographer. My formula: awesome photo = awesome budget This weekend… I challenged my self to build my first studio… nope I didnt buy any lights at all… I will just use what I have in my pad and use natural light. I went to a school supply shop and bought: Paper Clips Pink Paper More Clips Double Adhesive tape Packing Tape More Tape Black Yarn Different Sizes of Styrofoam (Will be use as reflectors)