SInce the 1940's, Vancouver's ubiquitous H-frame power poles have been a gritty downtown fixture. Banged up by garbage and delivery trucks, blackened by the soot of coal furnaces long gone and towered over by scyscrapers they were never meant to service, they stand strong and proud, and interconnected, Soon these elevated transformers and their hundreds of kilometers of power lines will be a thing of the past.
Over the next few years, Vancover will lose almost all of them and install services underground. Only a handful will be left standing, almost exclusively in Chinatown and Gastown, to preserve the ambiance for back alley movie shoots.
I try to capture their personality before they are gone, in a series called "Urban Lanscapes".
Over the next few years, Vancover will lose almost all of them and install services underground. Only a handful will be left standing, almost exclusively in Chinatown and Gastown, to preserve the ambiance for back alley movie shoots.
I try to capture their personality before they are gone, in a series called "Urban Lanscapes".
