The King County Fair was the first fair of the summer. I have felt a great deal of excitement about going to photograph this fair because it represents the third year of work on this Fair Season project. Reflecting on last year, there were many days I spent out photographing a fair in an awful […]
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This year was the 50th anniversary of the Seattle pride parade and there was an absolutely huge turnout in the crowd but also in the length of the parade – massive. Parades are challenging for me. I enjoy myself the most when I work the edges of the event as opposed to photographing the parade
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In Chinese tradition, the cabbage represents wealth and prosperity. During Lunar New Year, it’s customary for the lion dancers to visit numerous local businesses to perform “cai qing,” which translates to “plucking the green.” Their rhythmic and acrobatic dance from business to business hunting for the prosperous cabbage, followed by a dragon, drums, firecrackers, and
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As a good friend of mine put it (while photographing the event completely sober) “I felt like a small boat of sobriety floating in a sea of drunkenness.” SantaCon in Seattle, is not really a convention – not even a little bit. It’s a bit of a festive bar crawl where people dress up in
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As fair season is winding down I find myself feeling a bit like it’s the temporary pause on a meaningful project that has taken me all over the western part of Washington. This isn’t the end of my work on the project – I see at least another year of collecting images. Until then, I
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As part of a larger project, I have been traveling around the state photographing different county fairs. The West Valley Community fair has been happening just about every summer since 1951, and is one of the best small town fairs in the state of Washington. The fair took place in the West Valley end of
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This is the second year I have photographed the naturalization ceremony that takes place at the Seattle center on the 4th of July. This phenomenon happened to me during the ceremony; this year and last year. While watching the people cheer and take the oath of citizenship, I felt myself setting aside my own mixed
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In mid June in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle is the Solstice parade. This annual event brings large crowds that line the the mile or so stretch of street of the parade route. I have photographed the parade before, but only from the side of the street – trying to push my way through the
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The first weekend in June brought a large gathering of FFA and 4-H to the Skagit Valley Fairgrounds for the Puget Sound Jr. Livestock Show. This show is primarily a competition amongst these young people to raise the prized animal with the best “finishing” characteristics. Finishing as in – right before slaughter. Numerous large belt
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The beautiful weather on the weekend of May 20-21 brought out a large crowd to University Ave (which is commonly called The Ave) for the U-District Street Fair. The street fair is a celebration of community, art and music and is packed into about 8 city blocks. Saturday was much warmer and sunnier and felt
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