Welcome to Hope in Shadows

Hope in Shadows is a community project based around a photography contest for residents in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The prize-winning photos are featured in an annual calendar which residents themselves sell for a profit.

A big thank you to everyone for buying a Hope in Shadow calendar this year!

We are really happy to announce that street vendors sold 20% more calendars than last year (12,000 up from 10,000).

Several of the vendors are back on the streets to try to sell the remaining few hundred to visitors in Vancouver. So if you haven't picked one up yet, it's not too late! Keep an eye out for the blue caps and bags on the streets. 

Hope in Shadows book sells more than 5,000 on streets

Vancouver, February 23, 2010 - The Hope in Shadows book has now sold more than 5,000 copies on the streets of Vancouver. This makes it an unofficial B.C. Bestseller! An official B.C. Bestseller needs to sell 5,000 copies in bookstores.

In 2008, Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome's book Hope in Shadows, Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside won the City of Vancouver Book Award.

The book was produced jointly with Arsenal Pulp Press.

Fifty percent of all street sales go to homeless and low-incomes street vendors.