The writer and singer-songwriter Rodney DeCroo discusses his new book Night Moves: The Street Photography of Rodney DeCroo (Anvil Press, 2025), with Joseph Planta.
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Night Moves: The Street Photography of Rodney DeCroo by Rodney DeCroo (Anvil Press, 2025).
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Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.
Rodney DeCroo joins me now. The author, poet, singer-songwriter has just published a new collection of photographs. It’s a collection that largely reflects the world that Mr. DeCroo sees in East Vancouver. It’s often ironic, whimsical, serious, tense, but always real. The images he captures with his camera, largely self-taught, evoke a Vancouver that’s not what people immediately see when they Google for images of Vancouver. This is the Vancouver that’s on Commercial Drive, or Main Street. This isn’t Kerrisdale or Kits, Yaletown or Champlain Heights. It’s a Vancouver that’s trying or barely trying to make ends meet, that’s crushed by the world around us. The evocative photographs feature people as they go about trying to get to work in the heat, in the snow, and since it’s Vancouver, the rain. Sometimes there are photographs of people just taking a rest on the curb or the bus stop bench, or guys shooting the shit at a coffee shop on The Drive. I’ll ask Mr. DeCroo about this collection, how he goes about taking pictures, and more. Rodney DeCroo is the author of two previous books of poetry Allegheny, BC, and Next Door to the Butcher Shop. Also, a well-known, touring singer-songwriter with eight albums to his credit. His solo plays Stupid Boy in an Ugly Town and Didn’t Hurt have toured across Canada and the US. The full title of the book is Night Moves: The Street Photography of Rodney DeCroo. It’s published by Anvil Press. The foreword is written by Mike Usinger. I talked to Rodney nearly two weeks ago. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Rodney DeCroo; Mr. DeCroo, good morning.
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