My Favourite Graffiti Alley’s are still alive and well in Vancouver’s Gastown District.

My Favourite Graffiti Alley’s are still alive and well in Vancouver’s Gastown District.

May 23, 2025

Brick wall with green and yellow graffiti reading “GROW UP” — “GROW UP” graffiti painted on a brick wall.
Camera: Hasselblad 503CXI with its 100 megapixel CFV 100 digital back
Lens:Carl Zeiss Distagon C 50mm f4

Close-up of a sticker-covered pole with graffiti in the background — A pole covered in stickers with graffiti on the wall behind it.

Close-up of a sticker-covered pole with graffiti in the background — A pole covered in stickers with graffiti on the wall behind it.

Discarded mattress and belongings with someone having a Nap in graffiti-covered alley — A discarded mattress with a napping Hobo in front of graffiti-covered walls in a Gastown Alley.
Camera: Hasselblad 503CXI with its 100 megapixel CFV 100 digital back
Lens:Carl Zeiss Distagon C 50mm f4

Kay standing in front of a graffiti-covered garage door — Kay stands facing the camera in front of a wall covered in colourful graffiti. Captured using a Hasselblad 503CXI and CFV100C Digital Back. Camera: Hasselblad 503CXI with its 100 megapixel CFV 100 digital back
Lens:Carl Zeiss Distagon C 50mm f4

Kay posing in front of a blue and orange graffiti wall — Kay stands in front of a colourful graffiti wall wearing sunglasses

Kay standing in front of a graffiti-covered garage door — Kay stands in front of a colourful graffiti wall wearing sunglasses

A pole with a weathered “STUDENT STRIKE” poster in front of city buildings — An old and torn up collection of posters on a city pole just off of W. Hasting Street.
Camera: Hasselblad 503CXI with its 100 megapixel CFV 100 digital back
Lens:Carl Zeiss Distagon C 50mm f4

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