Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Bus shelter poster for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Curator Catherine Clement (second from right) and the team who helped developed the first-ever solo exhibition of the work of Yucho Chow, Vancouver’s first and most prolific Chinese commercial photographer. Left to right: Fay Roth; Susan Mah; Leilan Wong; Catherine Clement; and June M. Chow. Photo was taken on the opening day of the Yucho Chow exhibition called ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ The exhibition was on for a month at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver's Chinatown.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd floor gallery). Reception launch for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ First ever solo exhibition of the work of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese commercial photographer. Addressing the crowd is curator and exhibition designer, Catherine Clement.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia St., 2nd floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Volunteers for the Chinese Canadian Military Museum help with the reception duties. (Left to right): Terri Mew and Donna Woo.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia St., 2nd floor gallery). Cupcakes for the launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Photo of curator Catherine Clement (left) with 98-year-old jazz legend Eleanor Collins.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ 98-year jazz legend Eleanor Collins points to a portrait her father, Richard Proctor (top left).”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Vancouver Sun arts reporter, Kevin Griffin, with 98-year jazz legend Eleanor Collins. Directly above Kevin Griffin's head is a portrait of Ms. Collins' father: Richard Proctor.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd floor gallery). Photo of jazz legend Eleanor Collins (middle) with her daughter Judith (Collins) Maxie and son Robert Collins. They are standing in front of 1944 photograph of Judith and Robert as children with their paternal grandmother. Photo was taken on the opening day of the Yucho Chow exhibition called ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ First ever solo exhibition of the work of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese commercial photographer. The exhibition was on for a month at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver's Chinatown.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Launch reception for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Musqueam elder Larry Grant with his wife Gina Grant. The Grants had submitted an early family photo which was displayed in the exhibition. The photo showed their Chinese father and Musqueam mother with the three eldest children: Helen; Larry and Gordon.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor Gallery). B.C. provincial Minister George Chow. Photo was taken on the opening day of the Yucho Chow exhibition called ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ First ever solo exhibition of the work of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese commercial photographer. The exhibition was on for a month at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver's Chinatown.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 4, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd floor gallery). Reception launch for the Exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ First ever solo exhibition of the work of Vancouver's first and most prolific Chinese commercial photographer. Shown here is Tommy C.G. Wong, a WWII veteran whose portrait with his mother and sister is shown just above his head.”

Curator's original description reads: "May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Photo of community curator Catherine Clement (right) with Ben Chow (grandson of photographer Yucho Chow) and his wife Almira. Photo was taken the day the Yucho Chow exhibition was being dismantled after a month-long run at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouver's Chinatown.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition “Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.” Part of a series of six photos."

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition ’Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Part of a series of six photos.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition ’Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Part of a series of six photos.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition ’Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Part of a series of six photos.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition ’Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Part of a series of six photos.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Volunteers John Restakis (left) and June Chow (right) remove the main mural from the exhibition ’Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Part of a series of six photos.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 31, 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Project volunteer June Chow (right) during the teardown of the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ She is sitting on a ceramic stool that was used in Yucho Chow Studio.”

Item is a photograph showing curator Catherine Clement (second from right) with visitors to the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.'

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This photo was taken early in the day and is one of a series taken on the same morning.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This photo was taken early in the day and is one of a series taken on the same morning.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This photo was taken early in the day and is one of a series taken on the same morning.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This photo was taken early in the day and is one of a series taken on the same morning.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This photo was taken early in the day and is one of a series taken on the same morning.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitor to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor is Howard Grant, a Musqueam elder whose photo, as a young child, appeared in the exhibition.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Three members of the Grant family visit the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ (Left to right): Howard Grant, Helen Callbreath and Gordon Grant. One of their family photos was on display during the exhibition and was an example of a mixed-race couple (a Chinese father and an Indigeneous mother.)”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Judy Zesko (left) and Nettie Klimec visit the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Behind them are several photos from their family taken by Yucho Chow over a 20-year period.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Henry (left) and Michael Fair visit the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ Behind them is a photo of their father, John Howard Fair, as a child tap dancer in the 1930s.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitor to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor is Michael A. Machacek from Toronto, Ontario.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Veronica (Chow) Kagestsu (granddaughter of photographer Yucho Chow) being interviewed by the media during the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitor to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor is Rose Hardbattle whose mother and father, Walter and Mary Sierpina, appear as the bride and groom in the photo on the wall. The dress is the same one that appears in the image. The wedding photo was taken a few days after Yucho Chow suddenly died.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Curator Catherine Clement (left) with Mamie (Ng) Fung, the granddaughter of photographer Yucho Chow. Taken during the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow,’ the two women pose in front of a mural of the Main Street store.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). The Chong sisters showing curator, Catherine Clement, some of their original photos taken by Yucho Chow. They were visiting to the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ A long-lost photo of their father and paternal grandparents appeared in the exhibition.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). The Chong family pose next to a Yucho Chow photo shown in the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ The photo was not submitted by the family but was discovered by an artist while rummaging through a thrift store. It was when the photo was featured in a Vancouver Sun story on the exhibition, that one of the daughters recognized her father, as a child, in the photo.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Joanne Enchelmeir visits the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ She submitted an old family photo that showed the same woman, wearing the same outfit, but posing with Joanne’s grandfather and great grandmother.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). The Benedetti Family, owners of Bennies [Benny’s] Market in Strathcona, visit the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ The woman in the front holding the cane, Irma (Miotta) Benedetti, had her 1947 photo on display in the exhibition.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Pamela Siefert and an unidentified man pose next to a Yucho Chow photo shown in the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ The photo was of Pamela’s parents taken on their wedding day.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. These visitors are the descendants for Yucho Chow.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. These visitors are the descendants for Yucho Chow: his grandson (right) and great grandson.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre: 555 Columbia Street). Curator Catherine Clement with businessman/philanthropist Jack Gin. Photo was taken during the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitor to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor was Michael Quon whose family had run the Ho Cho Chop Suey Restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown. A photo of the family appeared in the exhibition.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitors to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor was Colin Preston, a former archivist with CBC Vancouver.”

Curator's original description reads: “May 2019, Vancouver. Visitor to the month-long exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’ This was the first solo exhibition of Chow's work: he was the first and most prolific Chinese photographer in Vancouver. This visitor brought in a photo of her mother taken at Yucho Chow Studio sometime in the 1940s or early 1950s.”

Curator's original description reads: “April 2019, Vancouver (Chinese Cultural Centre, 555 Columbia Street, 2nd Floor gallery). Volunteers (left to right): Peter Judd, Graham Judd and Leilan Wong setting up the displays for the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”

Curator's original description reads: “April 2019, Vancouver (East Pender Street). Project volunteers (left to right): Fay Roth, John Ko, Leilan Wong and Graham Judd transporting display items from Bamboo Village on East Pender Street to the exhibition ‘Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow.’”