Local photography project protests BC’s environmental policy

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Would you cover your body in an oil like substance to protest the response to the English Bay fuel spill? That’s exactly what a local group of artists are doing in an effort to raise environmental awareness with the message “Oil destroys all that we hold dear.”

David Chin with EastWest Productions says the pictures for the project were taken by local photographer Hubert Kang. “The [models] were selected based on diversity and how to best represent the message of our shoot. So we had about a dozen different ethnicities represented by the six models that were selected. We had a six year old boy to a 63 year old grandmother.”

“We protest to the fact that there is tanker traffic, that there is such tanker traffic in our waters, that there are pipelines being drilled into our mountains. That there are LNG plants being proposed up and down the coast by the Liberal government. We protest the oil spill that was poorly allowed to occur poorly cleaned up and poorly dealt with and the response time was seriously lacking”

“We won’t stand for this anymore. As artists and as concerned citizens, and as photographers, this is how we feel we can best portray that message. To say that we have all come together and donated our time and energy to say that we protest, so this is our artists protest,” he adds.

A future exhibit at Beaumont Studios and a behind the scene documentary is in the works and the plan is to auction off the “Dark Water” pictures to raise money for environmental organizations

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