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2023 - Vancouver _ Chinatown Mural

            A Smokey D. mural mural  painted on a Vancouver Chinatown alley off East Pender Street in 2022.

The mural pays tribute to "Chinatowns First Photographer", Yucho Chow. 

Yucho Chow was born 03 June,  1876, in Hoy Ping (now called Kaiping), Guangdong province, China.

Leaving his wife and two children behind, he arrived in Canada in February 1902, with the requirement of paying the $100 head tax. 

It is rumoured that he worked as a house servant while apprenticing with an unknown photographer.  By 1906, he had the money to buy equipment and open up a photographic studio.

With a photography studio in the heart of Vancouver’s Chinatown, between 1906-1949 Yucho Chow captured a unique aspect of the neighbourhood’s history.

He photographed during a tumultuous and transformative period: Through two world wars; the Spanish Flu; and the Great Depression. Chow’s studio survived despite escalating racial tensions and laws that targeted Chinese and other non-white immigrants. 

Although he was Chinese, Yucho Chow was one of the few commerical photographers willing to take photos of non-white customers. 

Chow chronicled the lives and special moments for early Sikh and Hindu immigrants; Black residents; mixed-raced families; Indigenous families; and newly-arrived European immigrants from countries like Poland, Croatia, Ukraine, Italy, Germany, Sweden to name a few.

1906, Yucho Chow opened his first studio at 68 West Hastings. He later moved to the top floor of 5 West Pender (1909-1913); then to a street-level storefront at 23 West Pender (1914-1929) where his business thrived.

Finally, in 1930, he settled in at 518 Main Street and remained in that location until his sudden death in 1949. (His two sons Peter and Philip then took over and operated the studio a few doors down – at 512 Main — until their retirement in 1986.)

SMOKEY D:
James Hardy, also known as 'Smokey the Devil', is a graffiti artist living in Vanvouver's Downtown Eastside.

While a few decades ago, the North-Vancouver-born artist spent eight months in jail for graffiti, he has since worked to legitimize the messages behind his art.

Hardy is one of the founders of a DTES Artist Collective that pushed the city to commission its first legal graffiti wall in 2022.

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Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Vancouver / Chinatown de Vancouver (show map)

Taken on: August 3, 2023

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