Behind a blue door sits The Pit: part smoking area, part workshop, part garden, part gathering place. A photographic exploration of the traces people leave behind and the community they build together.
Today I invited elected officials, BC Housing, and provincial leadership to spend 72 hours navigating homelessness in Kelowna using the same systems available to everyone else. The invitation remains open.
What’s Crazy? What’s Human? What’s Crazy? The stereotype. The caricature. The stigma. The version of homelessness many people carry around in their heads. Lazy. Dangerous. Addicted. Living on free money. Refusing to work. Choosing this. The version of homelessness many …
Results may vary. Housing definitely not included. Some people imagine homelessness as a single thing. It isn’t. Today it looked like a hot fudge sundae from Dairy Queen because I’m an adult and nobody can stop me. It looked like …
The pain woke me up again. At first it was my hands. Then my wrists. Then my forearms. Then my elbows, shoulders and neck. By morning I was trying to figure out whether I could brush my teeth, open a …
A few weeks ago I was housed. Now I’m carrying most of what I own in reusable bags, trying to figure out bathrooms, bus schedules, insulin supplies, charging cables, where to sit without being moved along, and whether I can …
2026-05-24 — Kelowna, BC A gallery from one morning around Richter Street North End. Parallel worlds existing within a few blocks of each other: sunlight, luxury towers, shopping carts, cold showers, harmonicas, security patrols, shelter beds, coffee entrepreneurs, and people …
This afternoon I stepped in. This evening, the immersion began. Not cinematic collapse.Not instant despair.Not the dramatic emotional freefall people comfortably imagine when they hear the word homeless. Just the strange psychological drift that happens when the word shelter stops …
2026-05-21 — Oasis Inn — Kelowna, BC It was midnight at the Oasis. Not a metaphor.Not some old song lyric. Just me sitting poolside in Kelowna trying to figure out where I might sleep tomorrow night while the smell of …
It was 6:17 AM on the last day I had a hotel room. By 11 AM, unless something changed, I would be checking out. The province had paid for two nights. My crisis support was complete. My file was closed. …