Vitality: Iconic Images, Hidden Stories

From the 1950s through the '70s, Fred Herzog walked Chinatown, Strathcona, and Hastings Street with a camera, capturing an era in Kodachrome colour. His photographs are iconic. What they couldn't capture were the names, the families, and the histories inside the frame. The Chinatown Storytelling Centre spent years finding those stories. In Vitality, each photograph is paired with the account of someone who was there: personal recollections, family histories, cultural context. Many of the archival images were shared by families directly, and have never been seen publicly before.