Refuge Jacques Henri Lartigue | Louise Baring Greg Girard’s photographs of Vancouver

Greg Girard’s photographs of Vancouver from the 1970s and early 1980s show us the city’s final days as a port town at the end of the railway line

but they always keep a watchful eye on her

Going through these negatives again I found new images that I now liked

as explored by the unrivaled talents of the Magnum membership

The constructions also reference the makeshift ‘homes’ of homeless people

Refuge Jacques Henri Lartigue | Louise Baring Greg Girard’s photographs of VancouverFirst edition of Refuge by Lara Gasparotto (2024). Large format hardcover in new condition. About Refuge delivers a subtle narration without chapters, without page numbers, where the rhythm is changing, where the subtle tension of the sensitive montage created by the artist bewitches and moves. Joined on the cover by an illustration by Lissa Gasparotto and inside, by a poetic text by Eva Mancuso, the almost five hundred images that populate the book