I grew up near Vancouver and in the early 1970s started wandering the city and making my first photographs. Parts of the city -places and also the people- appeared to be suspended in the 1940s or 50s. I photographed in both colour and black and white, deciding by some sort of now forgotten intuition whether to use one or the other. This body of early work ends in 1982, when I left on a trip to Asia, and, as it turned out, didn't return for decades.