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Most of my work organizes itself into open-ended projects that are rarely finished but often stop in interesting places for a show, CDRom, or hand-made book. I work mostly locally -- near my home town of Seattle. Robert Doisneau, said "I like it when I go out and then, all of a sudden, where I've been a hundred times and never seen anything, something appears and I capture it." These galleries are a selection from some of my projects. Click on a photograph to enter the gallery.
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Bless the Children
I'm a sucker for cute little kids. Recently a local gallery asked me if I had photographs of children for a large group show they were planning. Silly question. |
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The Seattle Pride Parade Seattle's Gay Pride Parade is held in late June in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. It is an amalgam of civil rights rally, goofy neighborhood parade and Carnival in Rio. I have never been at an event at which the participants take the issues so seriously … and themselves so lightly.
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The Fremont Solstice Celebration Fremont is a Seattle neighborhood just north of the city center. It was traditionally a blue-collar neighborhood of fishermen, ship chandlers and boatyards. It became the hub of a thriving arts and crafts community and is host to an annual Solstice Celebration -- music and dancing, food and drink, a huge street fair, and a wonderfully goofy parade that allows only human-powered floats and no commercial sponsors, and features lavish costumes (or lack thereof). Alas, Fremont is evolving into a trendy city neighborhood and each year I fear that the Solstice Celebration will be the last one.
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The Thomas Street Garden The Thomas Street Garden is tucked into a formerly vacant lot in the middle of Seattle’s densely populated, eclectic Broadway neighborhood. It is one, doubtless the smallest, of the Seattle Park Department’s numerous Community Gardens (P-patches).
I am grateful to the gardeners for allowing me to share both their garden and their love for it.
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Forgotten But Not Gone (with poems by Judith Skillman) These photographs were taken in and around my home town in central Illinois. They are posterized in the darkroom using litho film.
To my delight, Judith Skillman was moved to write a short poem to accompany each of the 25 prints in this project. Even though she has never set foot in central Illinois her insights were so accurate as to be positively scary. We had been looking for a collaborative project and then this one just happened (the best kind).
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Ecstatic Dancers
These photographs are of
people dancing -- not professional dancers (even I love Seattle’s festivals and street fairs. I make prints like these to remind myself of the energy, joy, and celebration that I find there. I hope they do the same for you. |
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On Reading People reading are nearly as oblivious as dancers. Seattle is a great town for books and reading (although this image is from Hawaii). As soon as the sun comes out, people come out also -- and often bring their book with them. |
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The Face of the Market Seattle's Pike Place market is a magnet for photographers. Most of them, however, photograph the piles of Dungeness crabs and heaps of fresh produce. I photograph the people, especially the merchants.
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Hangouts
I love neighborhood hangouts, both as
places to tie up for a meal or coffee and as a place |
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