Jordan Matthew Yerman has been around the world almost three times, and has cultivated a love of photography as a storytelling tool. He documents cities through the lived experiences of their inhabitants, be they human or otherwise.
Yerman’s work has been published by the Vancouver Observer, APEX Experience Magazine, Akihabara News, Tokyo INSIGHT Magazine, Love Meow, Vancity Buzz, Vancouver Courier, Gripped, and Canadian Avalanche Journal; as well as being featured on Buzzfeed. He takes high-stakes cat photos for Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue, helping stray cats find new homes. He has presented on street cat photography at BIL2015 in Vancouver.
The talk — BIL 2015 Vancouver
The Street Cat Project explores the relationship that we as city-dwellers have with our nonhuman neighbors. Jordan Matthew Yerman has traveled to Japan, Iceland, and Israel to meet their local street-cat populations. Profound differences emerged in how these feline street urchins behave around humans, and how they interact with one another. This exploration has come full circle, as he encountered Metro Vancouver’s own carefully-hidden feral cat population.
Talks
- Street Cat Photo Booth: Fame, Compassion, Machine Learning, and Curious Cats — BIL:Vancouver 2016 ▶ video
- Talking with Broken Machines — BIL: Vancouver 2017