WINNERS

Vancouver Art Gallery

  • Photographer
    Joanne White, Canada
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention

The Vancouver Art Museum is a beautiful neoclassical building. It used to be Vancouver’s Provincial Courthouse, and a pair of granite lions were placed on either side of the old Courthouse entrance. On November 4, 1942, two dynamite blasts damaged the rear end of the western lion. It also shattered windows of the surrounding hotels and people thought the city was under air attack. Stonecutters who had worked on the original carvings were hired to carve and fit new hindquarters. The join line is still visible and the culprits were never found. Holga 120S on Black & White 100 ISO film