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In the spirit of 60 Minute Photo, you can now drop your film at this 14th Ave coffee shop

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It has been more than a decade since 60 Minute Photo, the last dedicated photo shop on Capitol Hill, wound up its final roll and made way for demolition and redevelopment on 14th Ave. One of the businesses that survived that 14th Ave change has added a new element that might be of interest to neighborhood shutterbugs.

There is now a new Moody’s Film Lab drop box inside the street’s Porchlight Coffee and Records shop. The box joins a collection point at Sonic Boom in Ballard as the brand new photographer-run company’s first as it grows a boutique drop-off and by-mail film development, printing, and more business in Seattle. Continue reading →

‘Come Get Shots Here’ — Tips from a Capitol Hill street fashion photographer

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Earlier today, CHS visited with Lady Krishna, a Capitol Hill character who brightens the streets of Pike and Pine with her love, art, fashion, and music. You can thank another neighborhood character for the images of the Lady in motion.

Orlin Nedkov works at a hospital on First Hill in a job that requires him to stay in close proximity. His time on call, therefore, is spent mostly on Capitol Hill — with a camera in hand.

Nedkov’s hobby currently takes shape in @caphillstreetfashion2022, an Instagram account chronicling Capitol Hill street fashion looks.

“I have 3,000 pictures of people,” Nedkov said. “I don’t know what it is going to morph into.” Continue reading →

Three Days at Standing Rock fundraiser opens during Capitol Hill Art Walk

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(Image: Alex Garland)

(Image: Alex Garland)

Two photographers who have captured images of life around Capitol Hill have collaborated on a project to capture scenes of protest from the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline and in defense of the Lakota Nation. Three Days at Standing Rock opens at 11th Ave’s Vermillion Thursday night as part of the monthly Capitol Hill Arts Walk.

http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/event/three-days-at-standing-rock-opening/

Frequent CHS contributor Alex Garland and freelance photographer Kelly O were drawn to the cause and teamed up for a North Dakota road trip:

On September 19th, with a rented mini-van and some donated food and clothing, we set out with our cameras. While nothing as violent as the incidents on September 3rd took place, we were grateful for this opportunity to stand, even for a short time, with Standing Rock—to see and hear what the water protectors were saying and what they were doing to fight for their rights. And the fight isn’t over. Winter is coming, and water protectors are being arrested, daily, at an alarming rate.

All proceeds from sales Thursday night will be donated to the Red Warrior Camp at Standing Rock, the artists said. The show runs at Vermillion through December 3rd.

 

CHS Pics | From Capitol Hill drag queens to the Clinton-Trump campaign trail

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Gowdy in front of the Comet earlier this week (Image: Alex Garland for CHS)

Gowdy in front of the Comet earlier this week (Image: Alex Garland for CHS)

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The 2016 presidential election has us all questioning what we see and hear. Through the sometimes bizarre race, Seattle photographer Nate Gowdy’s starkly contrasted images of the candidates have found a wide audience. What truths can we find in the lines of Donald Trump’s face that we can’t find in his words? How deep of a sympathetic response can we form from the turn in Hillary Clinton’s lips? Thursday night, a new exhibition of Gowdy’s works will go on display inside E Pike’s Retail Therapy as part of the storm-defying October Capitol Hill Art Walk. CHS talked with Gowdy about his start chasing drag queens and documenting gay events and culture in the neighborhood while trying to pay the bills as a working photographer. Stop though to see the images in person and buy a Gowdy photo mug or two to help keep the close-ups coming.

Any experiences shooting around Capitol Hill prepare you for your experiences with the campaigns? Yeah, definitely. I learned photography in this neighborhood. I got in with Seattle Gay News as staff photographer at the start of 2011. As a straight cisgender man from Indiana, Seattle’s LGBTQ scene was so new and different for me. I didn’t see anyone else documenting it passionately, and so it was under-represented at an important time, when marriage equality was just beginning to make the rounds across the country. I regret not having the means to cover the movement beyond Seattle, so I focused on developing my style and aesthetic here and, in doing so, was able to create a niche and community for myself. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Vintage Capitol Hill

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If you aren’t following what Vintage Seattle is doing these days on Facebook with historic photography of the city, you should join the conversation. It’s an instant education in Seattle’s long ago — and not so long ago — past.

CHS has come to follow the discussions connecting to the various images of Capitol Hill past that are being shared in the Vintage Seattle stream. Up top, the image of Pine and Boylston was surfaced in this recent VS post. “Pine and Boylston – Seattle 1975,” the photographer writes about the picture. “Found an old roll of BW film, so I had it developed and scanned. It took a while for me to date this, but it was Seattle 1975.”

“I bought my first car in 1978 and it was exactly like the 66 Chevelle in the picture,” a VS follower replies.

Especially interesting have been recent finds of imagery showing Seattle and the base of Capitol Hill’s transformation during the project to build I-5 through the heart of the city. Continue reading →