Black Lives Matter

Beware the ides of March

This post won't live up to that title. I had my reasons, though. It is March, I'm anxious about the competing trajectories of COVID variants vs. vaccinations (that's a lot of v's...I think I prefer vees), and I'm going to post a link to an opinion piece about the

Out of the Shoebox

Out of the Shoebox: Black Lives Matter

It's always strange going back through a photo archive. I have over 100k photos in the archive, and most of them suck. But there are pleasant re-visited surprises. There are a lot of I don't remember taking that. There are a lot of photographers who remember every photo they took.

Photojournalism

The rearview mirror

I'm racing against the clock on this post. If I don't make it, there will be calamitous repercussions, the likes of which this apartment has not seen in at least several hours. AKA there will be an extra series of f-bombs and gawdammits uttered. I was going through the archive

On the Streets

Hello helicopter my old fr...

[Note: In August 2020 I moved from Squarespace to Ghost by way of Wordpress. That wreaked havoc on my photos. I'm slowly trying to repair some of the links, but I'll inevitably miss or skip many.] I’m posting some observations from yesterday’s protests. Very light on documentary photography.

Black Lives Matter

Timing is a funny thing

I’m not a planner. It’s not a boast. 95% of the time I’m dropping an f-bomb followed by “I wish I was a planner.” I also used to stress about the subjunctive, but that’s wasted time. Go with what sounds better. That doesn’t mean you

Anti-racism

A Tense August 2017

The Patriot Prayer group held a rally on 13 August 2017 at Seattle’s Westlake Park. It was bound to be a tense day even on a normal Pacific Northwest weekend. But this was not a normal weekend. On Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, James Alex Fields killed Heather Heyer when

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter, Seattle, 9 July 2017

On Sunday 9 July 2017, people marched through Capitol Hill, Seattle, in support of Black Lives Matter. I didn’t know about the march until I noticed police motorcycles blocking the intersection at Broadway and Mercer. I grabbed my camera and took some photos of participants delivering impromptu remarks just

Activism

Seattle: Boom town (with side effects)

Breaking news – Seattle is booming. The anecdotal evidence is compelling: cranes dot the skyline, new apartments and condos are going up on every other block, and tech firms are hiring like mad. The Emerald City is also doing well in the press, a progressive hub on a Northern California – Pacific