words by dustin godfrey

Writer | Journalist | Researcher | Editor | Photographer

Photojournalism

Throughout my career as a journalist, I have gone beyond the written word and made the best of my old, affordable DSLR, a Canon Rebel T6i bought in 2016. Here are some samples of the work that has accompanied my reporting and others that didn’t make it into publication.

Pro-Palestine protesters wave flags at a rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. (The Maple)
The Vancouver Art Gallery filled with people expressing solidarity with Palestine. (The Maple)
Green smoke pours out of a canister held high by a protestor at a pro-Palestine rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, with a Free Palestine poster held up behind it. (The Maple)
Hundreds march in solidarity with the Drug User Liberation Front shortly after their compassion club is raided by VPD.
Kendell Yan and Jaye Simpson attend a rally to support the Drug User Liberation Front shortly after two of its founders were raided and faced criminal charges. (Filter Magazine)
A three-storey walk-up building sits derelict in Burnaby’s Metrotown neighbourhood, awaiting redevelopment for years.
Harvey Clause sits along Gladys Avenue in Abbotsford, next to the rail line that runs through the city and near the Salvation Army where much of the local unhoused population gets meals. (Abbotsford News)
Observers watch as Vancouver park rangers give notice to CRAB Park campers that they will be evicted from the park if they don’t move into the new designated area by deadline.
Surrey Union of Drug Users board member Peter Woodrow stands among hundreds of flags in Surrey’s Overdose Awareness Day event. Each flag represents the roughly 1,800 people who have died in Surrey since 2016 from the toxic drug supply. (Filter Magazine)
A man prunes plants in his space in the Baraga community gardens in south Burnaby. (Burnaby Beacon)
Peggy Allen stands in the long driveway to her home along Gladys Avenue. She lives next door to the Salvation Army, and for years, she railed against the local unhoused population — until one day, she joined them in fighting for their rights. (Abbotsford News)
Mike Munther, owner of the Living Room Cafe, says Burnaby’s bylaw department harassed him and other hookah lounge owners. (Burnaby Beacon)
Douglas Copeland holds up a piece of fordite next to his sculpture outside a Metrotown development in Burnaby. The sculpture is also made of fordite, an homage to the sites history as a Ford manufacturing plant. (Burnaby Beacon)
Tim Takaro films as police remove protesters against the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project from their tree-sit that blocked work on the project. (Burnaby Beacon)
A tree is cut down bit-by-bit to clear the way for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. (Burnaby Beacon)
Luka Kovacic stands atop a fallen tree over a tributary to Stoney Creek. Kovacic is a young member of the Stoney Creek Environment Committee, where he and others work to preserve the urban creek. (Burnaby Beacon)
Anti-pipeline protesters wait as another protester is extracted from a tree-sit blocking work on the Trans Mountain expansion. (Burnaby Beacon)
Bill Winder was released after being extracted from his tree-sit blocking work on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a U-lock he’d used to secure himself to the tree still around his neck. (Burnaby Beacon)

Personal

On top of photography to complement my work as a reporter, I have enjoyed photography as a hobby, taking photos of cities and architecture and the little intricacies in nature — and, of course, my cat.

Cities

Nature

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