Research note
Chinatown fieldwork
Observations and conversations from my walk through Chinatown. Three shopkeepers, one gate, and a lot of rain.
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Research notes, reflections, and process documentation. Short, dated, and written soon after the walk.
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ReflectionWhat is cultural identity?
Thinking about identity through the visual environment in the city, and why the question keeps resisting a clean answer.
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ProcessBuilding the archive
How I research, select, and structure each archive entry, and what I leave out.
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Reading noteVisual culture
Notes from a first pass through the introductory literature on visual culture and the image as evidence.
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Research noteRobson Street at dusk
Watching how people dress for the street when the street is the destination.
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ProcessPhotographing without staging
A rule I set myself, the times I nearly broke it, and why it matters for an archive.
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ReflectionWhose monument?
Standing in Victory Square and thinking about who the plaques address and who walks past them.
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Research noteHand-painted signs, Fraser Street
Six shops, four languages, and the signwriter who painted most of them.
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