Anthem
I’ve woven through the streets of Seattle, spending time with people or being ignored. Sometimes I take a picture or two. This is a glimpse of life in the thriving and troubled city. It’s a series of moments, frozen while the city is undergoing massive flux while new residents arrive and the landscape changes.
The city has been a combination of tranquility with a frenetic and pained underbelly, but the disparities have increased during this project. Much of the population keeps the lights on in public service and the service industries, among other professions, while technological giants dominate commerce.
A city as it struggles and prospers…enjoined to fate on the horizon of the frontier, against the ocean with nowhere to go.
A young woman waits for the bus in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA on February 8, 2010.
Scooter at the Cinerama movie complex in Seattle, Washington, USA on February 15, 2010.
Curt Homan (Left) and Matt Love enjoy a coffee on Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, USA on April 20, 2010.
Long distance runners from Seattle University stop for a swim in Lake Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA on May 31, 2011.
An Occupy Seattle demonstration approaches Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, USA on October 15, 2011.
Bus driver Laury Minard, a driver for 27 years and born and raised in Seattle, Washington, USA, heads through downtown on November 2, 2012.
Seattle police work during a torrential downpour in downtown Seattle, Washington, USA on November 19, 2012.
Portrait at Westlake Park in Seattle, Washington, USA on November 1, 2013.
Young man skateboards in Seattle, Washington, USA on October 19, 2014.
Protesters block an intersection to raise awareness about police violence in Seattle, Washington, USA on December 7, 2014.
A flock of pigeons careen through the International District of Seattle, Washington, USA on January 23, 2021.
A boat crosses under the Fremont Bridge in Seattle, Washington, USA on July 18, 2021.
Men walk east on Pike Street on the evening of July 22, 2021 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins greets the Seafair Torchlight Parade crowd on July 30, 2022 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
The sun sets behind Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, USA on July 15, 2023.
A union office and pedestrian are seen from a bus traveling south through downtown Seattle, Washington, USA on October 5, 2023.
The annual Trolloween party takes place in Fremont, Seattle, Washington, USA on October 31, 2023.