Padestrians passing though sidewalk filled with ice pallets during the rush hour, Vancouver, Canada

About two weeks ago I was browsing around events in town trying to photograph something unfamiliar to me........kind of giving myself a break after months of wondering through Vancouver's Chinatown. Then I received the email about a political fashion show called SCRAP organized by Kalayaan Center, a non-profit organization with it's purpose of serving the Filipino community here in Vancouver. So I placed a call for access........and days later there I was.

To understand the motive behind the SCRAP fashion show there is some background needs to be learned. Every year there's a significant amount of immigrants from the Philippines to Canada either through marriage catalogue, employment program or other means. With large portion of them women they are subject to abuse through workplace or in domestic settings. With this fashion show which using ordinary women with customs that has messages tailor to them the organizer hope bring the awareness to the public.

My original intent was using this event as a warm up for the bigger and purely commercial Vancouver Fashion Week which was happening last week but then, as happened so many times in the past, busy schedule with my day job just killed my personal plan. And there is also a lost of interest of photographing a commercial fashion show after done this one because of its uniqueness.

That being said, cat walk with tall blonde beautiful models on the stage for commercial and entertainment purposes was never really my thing I guess.

Exhausted shopper resting inside the clothing store at downtown, Vancouver, Canada