In 2015, East Van was changing fast. I lived there and was studying the gentrification that was taking place at the time. As an offshoot of my thesis work I took photos of almost every storefront from Cambie to Templeton over a span of one year. I thought that the whole area would be replaced by condos within the decade. That was true on the margins, but what took place in the core of the DTES area was nothing like what I’d expected. These photos display an inflection point in the history of East Van.