When journalism was alive and well in Vancouver in that last century and in a bit of this one I was present to photograph many activities and people in this city. In many respects I may be one of the last witnesses now that I am 84.

Social media is full of people acknowledging the death on August 25 of choreographer Chick Snipper. I looked in my dance files and I did not find her. I put her name into Google and was rewarded with a photograph I took for the Georgia Straight of Snipper with dancer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg.

I distinctly remember having gone to see Snipper’s Slab in February 2003. In my files I had had Slab. It seems that I never wrote a blog about it as I did not begin my blog until 2006.

I am now happy to place here my witnessing of Slab. At the time, it was a shocking performance for Vancouver as the three dancers did not wear anything. It was all there to see it. Somehow I managed to take 9 photographs were nothing is showing to offend those keen on community standards.

I looked at the photographs again and suddenly I noticed that  they were all taken with my unwieldy and heavy medium format Mamiya RB-67. I also noticed the tile floor of my studio. Conclusion? The dancers came to my studio, I lit them and they posed sans private parts.