The year is 2022, and the residents of Vancouver are experiencing an unseasonably warm summer – the sixth-hottest ever, to be precise.
@jeremyjudelee, a photographer who lives in the Canadian city, remembers the time fondly. “The skies were a rich blue, like a gradient that falls all the way to the ground,” he recalls ☀️
As he made his way through the balmy city, Lee would make a note of the beautiful scenes that he came across, noting down the places that he recognised from growing up.
These locations then became the basis of Lee’s newest work, Pretty Boys. Shot during that beautiful Vancouver summer, it’s the latest chapter in an ongoing series that, according to Lee, “explores ideas of Asian-Canadian belonging through the lens of nostalgia”.
Made in collaboration with the art director
@megankwn, the project sets out to tell a story of their shared memories of Vancouver and their experiences growing up Chinese-Canadian.
"Whenever I thought of photographing a fellow Asian man,...