About

Stephen Quissy is a photographer, a ceramacist and a high school art teacher who lives in Vancouver, BC. He spent 17 years working in and around the Port of Vancouver as a Cargo Surveyor and during this time used his camera to document the visual world he worked in. He follows in the footsteps of his late father (Earnest Quissy) who also worked on and photographed the waterfront in the 50’s and 60’s. When viewed together the Quissy images span some 70 years, exploring connections between industry, environment, manual labour, automatization, and global trade.

All photographs are shot on various types of 35mm film.

Stephen also loves the beauty and practicality of pottery and has been working as a ceramic artist for over a decade. 

stephenquissy@gmail.com

Located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations / 'Vancouver, BC'