His first series that gained a critical following featured wrestlers – shot in smudged blacks and cool greys – with their cheap costumes and carnival styling. A later series focused on celebrity impersonators who turn a party trick into something more compelling and weird and modern. The tones here are theatrical, all black shadow and flashbulb bright. For Howell’s latest exhibition – which recently closed at Winsor Gallery on South Granville in Vancouver – he photographed individual metal shopping carts filled with a curious array of objects collected by different binners, or dumpster divers. Howell bought the carts and contents outright at whatever price the seller asked in a fair trade effort between street-smart recycling and creative re- purposing. Howell made a good deal because this collection of photographs is superb.