Street camera gang fights the good fight
Posted on November 14, 2014 By Dave Fraser culture, Front Slider, Visual Arts
“We are out there to fight crime,” says Hugh Lee, co-founder of Hobos With Nikons, a group of Edmonton photography enthusiasts some may mistake for a homeless camera club. “That crime, of course, being people taking bad photographs.” Lee, a Edmonton apartment building manager, talks about the time he gave unsolicited tips to tourists in […]
MORE ART, LESS POP: Art Bergmann returns to Edmonton
Posted on November 25, 2013 By Dave Fraser Entertainment, entertainment, Front Slider, Music, music
Art Bergmann and William Burroughs have a lot in common – they both suffered the plight of heroin addiction, and they both had the tendency to make people uneasy. They showed you sights you’d rather not see, tried to expose the unpleasant underbelly of society. And both of them did their very best to fling […]