Independent documentary publishing
Founded in Kelowna, British Columbia
By Randy Millis

Personal Dispatches

Field notes, documentary journalism, photography, interviews, essays, and community voices.

Personal Dispatches is an independent publishing project documenting life as it is lived: housing, disability, homelessness, recovery, transportation, work, art, community, conflict, care, survival, and rebuilding.

The Third Man, a black-and-white documentary photograph by Randy Millis showing a person seated with a heavily loaded mobility walker at a Kelowna transit stop, hands clasped beneath a baseball cap.
The Third Man · Photograph by Randy Millis

About the project

The project began with first-hand reporting by Randy Millis from inside Kelowna's housing crisis, but it is built to grow beyond one person.

The long-term goal is a home for lived reporting, guest essays, interviews, photo stories, audio, video, and careful documentation of the systems and moments that shape ordinary life.

Current publication

New work is currently published through the existing Randy Millis site while this permanent home is being built.

Use the current site link to read the archive, recent dispatches, and project updates.

Coming soon

  • A permanent archive for Personal Dispatches
  • Guest articles and first-person essays
  • Interviews with people who want to speak on the record
  • Photography, field notes, audio, and video dispatches
  • Community reporting from Kelowna and beyond