The Local Blog

Winnipeg Love Hate

Kevin Legge

1. Winnipeg Love Hate
2. Girl About Town
3. TIE Rise & Sprawl/Witchpolice

Five years ago, local photographer Bryan Scott decided to move pictures off of his Flickr page and start a photo blog called Winnipeg Love Hate, which is still updated regularly with various shots taken throughout the city.

“I’d say downtown is probably my favourite area to photograph,” Scott, 39, says. “There’s a panorama of Albert Street that I took about four or five years ago before the buildings [War on Music and Ken Hong Restaurant] burned down and that’s probably my most popular shot by far. People really seem to like Albert Street and after the fire people seemed to be more interested in that shot than before.”

Through the blog Scott also sells prints of his photos and back in 2010 he self-published a book containing pictures he had previously uploaded online.

Winnipeg Love Hate also caught the attention of Winnipeg Free Press journalist Bartley Kives, who asked Scott to contribute photos for his book Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg, which was released through Great Plains Publications last month.

“He was a fan of my photos and he just had the idea to partner up,” Scott says. “Lots of the photos in the book are pre-existing, but I also went out and took some new photos to accompany his writing as well.”

Even though he’s taken hundreds upon hundreds of photos, Scott doesn’t see himself slowing down the blog anytime soon.

“I take photos when I’m inspired and it just takes a few minutes each day to post them,” he says. “I’m starting to feel like the time might be coming when I want to update the actual layout and design of the blog, but we’ll see if I get around to it or not.”

Part of the series: The Uniter 30

Published in Volume 68, Number 14 of The Uniter (December 4, 2013)

Related Reads