A person will never know everything about a city. My project will let people learn more than they currently know about Vancouver structurally(static) as well as how it operates. (dynamic) Examples of city characteristics are; people, business, buildings, houses, road infrastructure, products, transportation, nature etc.

WHY?

1.Because;

- a city undergoes change all the time (construction, environmental change etc.)

- people can’t access everyone’s personal space 

- social class (some people will never enter a million dollar apartment in Vancouver) 

- people experience life at different heights (wealthy Yaletown apartment owner vs. homeless person sitting on Hastings St.)  

- censorship of the media prevents us to see everything

2. People who do not live in Vancouver can learn more about the city before they come to it (travel tool)

3. Everyone is unique and there for see things differently. This creates value and the opportunity to learn 

4. Individuals have a free online space to start their own photography portfolio and be noticed

 HOW?

By uploading pictures to the internet so people within in the city as well as people outside the city can learn more about Vancouver. Everyone will have their own space (facebook, myspace, youtube etc.) to upload pictures to however, people can also search by an area of the city (Strathcona, Marpole etc.)  Within an area of the city people will be able to search within certain categories (street, nature, interior, people etc.) If a person searches within a community of the city, the pictures with the most views will show up descending to the least viewed (google search engine)

Chicago, like many urban centers throughout the world, has recently undergone a surge in new construction, grafting a new layer of architectural experimentation onto those of past eras. In early 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Photography‚ with the support of U.S. Equities Realty, invited Michael Wolf as an artist-in-residence. Bringing his unique perspective on changing urban environments to a city renowned for its architectural legacy, Wolf chose to photograph the central downtown area, focusing specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.

This is Wolf’s first body of work to address an American city. Whereas prior series have juxtaposed humanizing details within the surrounding geometry of the urban landscape, in The Transparent City, his details are fragments of life—digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged—snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses: Edward Hopper meets Blade Runner. The material resonates with all the formalism of the constructed, architectonic work for which Wolf is well-known, but also emphasizes the conceptual underpinnings of his ongoing engagement with the idea of how modern life unfolds within the framework of the ever-growing contemporary city. 

http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/citation.cfm?Catalog=AP565The Transparent City