Rodney DeCroo's street photography project, Night Moves, is a gritty, touching, poignant, and truthful portrayal of contemporary urban life. With his poet's eye for detail, he faithfully captures the living character of East Vancouver, especially the life and pulse of the Commercial Drive area that he has called home for the past thirty years.

In a style reminiscent of Mary Ellen Mark's Streetwise, the street photographer Vivian Maier, or Fred Herzog's chronicling of the urban flaneur, DeCroo observes and records present-day city life as it unfolds on the streets and alleyways of his neighbourhood.

We see the light and the dark of the world reflected in these photos. In this largely working-class part of Vancouver DeCroo introduces us to the wage-earners, the labourers, the residents of the street, the troubled and the transient. They are all here in his black and white images, never exploited or dehumanized, but always viewed through a compassionate lens.

Rodney DeCroo is a Vancouver-based singer/songwriter and poet. Born and raised in a small coal mining town just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has called Vancouver home for years now. He has released a previous collection of poetry, Allegheny, BC (Nightwood, 2012) and seven music albums that have received critical acclaim in Canada, the USA and Europe. Music critics have named him one of Canada's best folk/alt-country songwriters.Next Door to the Butcher Shop is his latest collection of poetry.

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"Rodney DeCroo's photography reveals as much about the man behind the camera as it does his subjects, which acutely depict life in East Vancouver. These raw, deeply human portraits connect desolation to revelation, showing us a side of the city we typically ignore. Humane and humanizing, this is beautiful yet urgent work."