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Hope In Shadows 2011
TITLE: Still Running
PHOTOGRAPHER: Norman Hall
Honourable Mention
Photographer Norman Hall is a passionate artist, so when he saw illustrator Norm Hale drawing in Oppenheimer Park one day, he was compelled to take his picture. “I love his detail drawings,” Norman says of Norm’s work. Norm is a regular fixture at Oppenheimer Park, where he does artwork and plays piano twice a week with his blues-rock band, Still Running. “It’s a good place,” Norm says of the park. “That’s exactly where I started and that’s where I got involved [in the community] there.” He met his band mates at Oppenheimer’s Saturday music sessions. “I happened to luck out and meet four guys who [are] pretty good and stuck together,” he says. Between sessions, Norm practices on a small digital keyboard at home.
Norman Hall (Nuxalk First Nation) is an avid artist who practices in a variety of media, including embroidery, painting, iron castings, carving, pottery, and making beaded baskets. Photography, therefore, is a natural extension of his creative work. The 30-year Vancouver resident produced two winning photos in the Hope in Shadows photography contest this year. Norman’s other winning photo is a self-portrait in Oppenheimer Park, where Norman regularly goes to work on an embroidered blanket that has been an ongoing project for over two decades. “It’s filled with all my crests. Eagle, thunderbird, blue whales, and the sun,” he says of the blanket, which speaks to his First Nations roots in Bella Coola. “It’s taken me 20, 25 years to work on it, as long as it’s taken me to grow my hair!”
From the Hope in Shadows collection
COPYRIGHT: Pivot Legal Society, 2011
Hope In Shadows 2011
TITLE: Still Running
PHOTOGRAPHER: Norman Hall
Honourable Mention
Photographer Norman Hall is a passionate artist, so when he saw illustrator Norm Hale drawing in Oppenheimer Park one day, he was compelled to take his picture. “I love his detail drawings,” Norman says of Norm’s work. Norm is a regular fixture at Oppenheimer Park, where he does artwork and plays piano twice a week with his blues-rock band, Still Running. “It’s a good place,” Norm says of the park. “That’s exactly where I started and that’s where I got involved [in the community] there.” He met his band mates at Oppenheimer’s Saturday music sessions. “I happened to luck out and meet four guys who [are] pretty good and stuck together,” he says. Between sessions, Norm practices on a small digital keyboard at home.
Norman Hall (Nuxalk First Nation) is an avid artist who practices in a variety of media, including embroidery, painting, iron castings, carving, pottery, and making beaded baskets. Photography, therefore, is a natural extension of his creative work. The 30-year Vancouver resident produced two winning photos in the Hope in Shadows photography contest this year. Norman’s other winning photo is a self-portrait in Oppenheimer Park, where Norman regularly goes to work on an embroidered blanket that has been an ongoing project for over two decades. “It’s filled with all my crests. Eagle, thunderbird, blue whales, and the sun,” he says of the blanket, which speaks to his First Nations roots in Bella Coola. “It’s taken me 20, 25 years to work on it, as long as it’s taken me to grow my hair!”
From the Hope in Shadows collection
COPYRIGHT: Pivot Legal Society, 2011