1. A Room in the City PHOTOS by GABOR GASZTONYI ANVIL PRESS FALL 2010

2. coming in fall 2010 from Anvil Press: Text photographs by foreword by GABOR GASZTONYI GABOR MAT

3. A ROOM IN THE CITY presents Gabor Gasztonyis ve-year project of photographing the residents of the Cobalt, Balmoral, Regent, and Sunrise Hotels in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside, the poorest postal code in the country. They are represented in private moments, with respect and dignityin their rooms and on the streetsas they wish to be seen.

4. These pictures of life in the drug gulag of the DTES are not easy to look at, but they are not meant to be. Nor are they intended to evoke pity or gloom. Depicting neither some bizarre otherwordly inferno, nor a place of helpless doom, these pictures represent a scenario of suffering and triumph. The human beings inhabiting this world bear qualities we all possess. from the foreword "Images of our shadow side" by Dr. Gabor Mat

5. GABOR GASZTONYI is an award-winning photographer. His work has been exhibited across Canada, from Vancouver to Montreal, and most recently in the ARTA Gallery in Toronto in 2008. He operates a photography studio and gallery in New Westminster, BC. DR GABOR MAT has treated addiction in the Downtown Eastside for over a decade. He is the author of multiple books and a contributor to The Globe and Mail. His most recent book is the bestseller In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.

6. Art Book/Photography 7 x 11 IN cloth 160 pages $40 CAN / US ISBN 978-1-897535-28-8 Publication date (on sale date): September 7, 2010

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