Homeward

No profile, no sense of motion. Just the full face of it, steady and unhurried, filling the frame.

This series began with a simple compositional decision: photograph each ship straight on, strip away the background, and let the form speak for itself. Each one is a portrait. Bold shapes, graphic lines, unexpected colour. Ships that are woven into Vancouver’s landscape, still, centred, and worthy of a closer look.

Each piece pairs the ship’s face with a painted mountain range, sky, and water drawn from the landscapes these vessels pass through on their journey. The names on the hulls tell of distant places. The rest is left to the imagination.

Eight ships. Eight portraits. Each one a quiet traveller, carrying goods and distance and the stories of everywhere they have been.