"The year is 2022, and the residents of Vancouver are experiencing an unseasonably warm summer – the sixth-hottest ever, to be precise. Jeremy Jude Lee, a photographer who lives in the Canadian city, remembers the time fondly. As he made his way through the balmy city, Lee would make a note of the beautiful scenes that he came across, noting down the places that he recognized from growing up in the city.
These locations then became the basis of Lee’s newest work, Pretty Boys. Although shot in the modern day, the photographs evoke a bygone era, like those captured in the nostalgia-tinged films of Richard Linklater. In Lee’s photographs, a bright and cloudless day steadily transmutes into a balmy summer’s evening, as four friends – James, Xin, Jason, and LongXi – make their way through a town lit by longing and warmth." -- Elliot Hoste, Dazed.
Below is an expanded selection of the series featured in DAZED and from the gallery exhibition "Where I'm From".
