As he wandered the city, he started to capture images that documented the eclectic, the unusual, and the everyday lives of the people around him. In the early 2010s, Australian Jack Scrine found himself in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with plenty of travel experience but little more than a camera to his name. He shares his inspiration for the project, his tactics for approaching strangers and helping them to open up, the responsibility of being entrusted with people's intimate stories, and how those stories evolve over time. Journalist and Photographer, Jack Scrine, joins Lindsay remotely to chat about his book HALIfolks: The Faces and Stories of Halifax, a compilation of stories and images from his popular blog/social media project of the same name. Synopsis of The End of the World as We Know ItS10 - E2 - JACK SCRINE - HALIFOLKS: THE FACES AND STORIES OF HALIFAX There are no easy happy endings, but somehow the journey eventually makes the pain worthwhile. Together the two teenagers struggle to work out how they are going to live in an imperfect world. Once focused on someone other than himself, he begins to notice the world around him and realize that there is beauty as well as hopelessness, love as well as hate. Christine struggles to get by, living in a trailer by herself, abandoned by her mother and father, so desperate that she has become almost immune to the pain and loneliness.Ĭonfronted by her deep sadness, Carson starts to care for her and she for him. Then Carson meets someone who is even less optimistic than he.
"Flunk Out Academy" is the last resort for Carson and his classmates, in a small town where its deeply troubled students are decidedly unwelcome. Stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out elsewhere, Carson knows he's got nowhere lower to sink to.
And that includes me."Īsked to write something for English class that expresses who he really is, 16-year-old Carson takes pleasure in blistering the page with hate for everything in his life. Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee 2009 Overview of The End of the World as We Know ItįoreWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards finalist (Juvenile Fiction category), 2007Īlberta Children's/Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee, 2008
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