Lane Finds and an emotional plea.

I have an episode of Lane Finds for you. It's the 16th one and I am truly getting exhausted. If you follow my feed you will see a post from the Downtown Eastside asking for donations of clothing and pet food.

The situation is dire so if you can donate, please do. Just go there directly, they are looking for any kind of warm, clean clothing. Pick one and just go and give.

My regular pick-up went on vacation for almost two months and I had so many bags to donate in my apartment I really got disheartened with the whole project. People have the way and means to get these donations to the people who need them. I do not have a car and I am physically lugging all of this back to my apartment, washing it (lugging it up and down 3 flights of stairs and paying $2.50 a load to wash and $2.25 to dry). I then bag it and get it ready for Gloria to pick up and she takes it to her garage and sorts it for the many places who either pick it up from here or she drops it directly to.

This is truly a labour of love.

The downtown East Side needs help and everyone is pledging to help in some way or somehow on social media. This is one way you can get involved, donate a bag to a shelter of good clean usable clothing that you are not using anymore. DO NOT THROW YOUR OLD CLOTHING AWAY.

I literally grabbed an armful from a lady who was just about to throw it into the bin last week.

I know she thought I was crazy and I don’t give a shit. Why throw out perfectly good clothing?

I am not talking about donating to Value Village - they are a for-profit company and are not doing anything to help the DTES please dispel this myth, If you don’t believe me please do some research and you will find what you need to know what they actually are and who they are currently supporting.

Want to buy something for them - they need socks, underwear and toiletries to get by.

Each day there are ‘sweeps’ at 8 am, the city is taking everything from people who are sleeping on the street and leaving them with nothing, rain, shine, cold or hot it’s constant.

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Ethan, Panorama editorial for Vigour Mag.

This was gold.

We shot on my rooftop and had to climb out of my kitchen window to get access, shhh, don’t tell anyone. Ethan is so fun to work with and brought a lot of the wardrobe we used for the shoot, I of course mixed in some of my wardrobe too. Overall the results are #Gold.

You can get a hard copy of the magazine here

Cheyenna for Selin Magazine.

What an incredible shoot, Cheyenna is hearing impaired and this was a first for me. I was concerned about how it would all come together and I didn’t need to worry at all. We connected and communicated easily with the help of an iPhone and Cheyenna taught me a few signs to help me along with giving instruction during our shoot.

The editorial was published in Selin Magazine Issue #32 Volume 28, you can get a print copy here.

Gathering, an editorial for Selin Magazine.

Featuring a trio of talent from Model Made Management, Amber, Diego and Fernando photographed just outside of Stanley Park on a bright sunny Sunday morning for this editorial spread for Selin Magazine Issue 30 Volume 19.

Get your copy of the magazine here

Coco and Jayda in studio.

The best part of my job is getting to work with incredible agency talent. Every time we get an assignment or a concept we pull it together and get it done. Often we have never worked together before but after a quick intro and orientation, we get to work. This is the result, a certain kind of magic happens and we share the result with you.

Coco and Jayda haven’t worked together before and I am really happy with the result.

Thanks to Off Town Magazine #29 Vol 6 for featuring our editorial.

Meghan G in studio for Off Town Mag Issue #29 Vol 5

Spent a Sunday with a wonderful new model from Alaeria Agency, Meghan.

Thanks to Off Town Magazine for publishing the editorial in Issue #29 Vol 5, grab your copy here.