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Adam PW Smith is a Vancouver-based photographer with a highly regarded reputation for live event photography using available light. He has been called “the best concert photographer in the country,” and can be found hiding in the wings of concert halls or crouching behind speaker stacks in theatres, clubs, and bars all over Vancouver, England, and, more recently, Poland.

In 2011 Smith published his first book - This Place Is Awesome - an account of the week he spent touring Britain with Vancouver's gypsy-klezmer-celtic-cider-polka-punk band The Dreadnoughts. The book is a combination of photographs and stories, and attempts to provide a glimpse into the real world of touring at the bottom end of the music industry food chain.


I don't mean the content - although it's undeniably true that the lowering of the barrier to entry will result in a flood of mediocre work to trudge though. No, I'm referring to the eBook format.

It's just such a poorly executed standard. Here's just a few of the things that drive me crazy.

Too Many Font Sizes

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Average rating: 4.25 · 4 ratings · 3 reviews · 1 distinct work
This Place is Awesome
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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" Redemption Song " by Chris Salewicz
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Adam Smith said "yes" to attending the event: This Place Is Awesome - Ottawa Reading
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date: January 05, 2012 09:00PM
location: Collected Works, 1242 Wellington Street West, Ottawa, ON, Canada
description: Adam PW Smith will be at Collected Works in Ottawa to read from This Place Is Awesome, accompanied by photographs, possibly a showing of the Polka Never Dies video. Bring cookies.
This Place is Awesome by Adam P.W. Smith
" A thrilling page turner on the travails of traveling with a band through the wilds of English pub gigs. At times anthropological and in others archaeological; it's an exploration of a particular microsociety as seen through the eyes of a photograp... "
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