My work as a visual researcher for documentary filmmaking involves engaging with public and private archives to find photographs, films, videos and audio to help reconstruct an overlooked part of history:  communities under/misrepresented, forgotten stories,  and documented injustice, all buried deep within the archives.

Examples of areas of research I have worked with in the past:

• Visual of queer community and organizations in Vancouver 1970s-1980s-1990s

• Visual of the Chinese Canadian Community history in BC (Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, Richmond)

• Visual of Indigenous communities, Japanese Canadian, Chinese Canadian and Sikh in Richmond and Steveston.

• Visual of constructions of the Nechako Dam in the Nechako-Bulkley region.

Unarchived

Feature Film
Produced by National Film Board of Canada

Richmond Stories

Documentary Film Series - 10 Short films
Produced by Richmond Museum and Archives and Lantern Films

What moment did people choose to photograph? To be photographed?

I love feeling like getting to know someone from the past, to see their stories unfold through traces of images. My favourite archive moments always involve touching glimpses of joy from the past - these moments of warmth and happiness embedded within these spirits that lie within the emulsion of the images, despite the flow of time.