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The headshot event was a success. That’s the most important thing, I have to say about it, so I’ll say it first. In one day, I happily serviced about 50 people, taking their portrait, so they could use it on LinkedIn, Facebook, with their acting agent or where ever a headshot might come in handy. [...]

My side project of offering up 100 headshots for free has quickly become my main project, thanks to the media taking an interest in it. The story was first picked up by West Seattle Blog, a hyper local news site for my neighborhood. This was quickly followed by a post on the Seattle PI’s ‘Big [...]

The recession has meant that a large number of people have lost their jobs, and it occurred to me that many of these new job seekers would probably like to have a nice head shot of themselves to attach to linkedin profiles and similar. However, being unemployed also means not having a ton of cash [...]

I finally shot my first series of images for the “12 Seattleites” project. In short: the goal is to portray the city of Seattle through portraits of 12 of its inhabitants. Each subject is being shot over multiple sessions, to capture different aspects of that persons’s life. And this was the first session of the [...]

It was Kelly who suggested I create a retrospective photobook, centered around my arrival and settling in the United States of America, more specifically Seattle. I am already working on another Seattle based book, but that one is taking longer than anticipated, so I thought I might take a look at her idea in the [...]

Readers of my blog over at Zoom In Online will have heard of my “12 Seattleites” project already, but the time has come for me to spread the word here as well. In short, I am putting together a book and a show, where I seek to portray Seattle through 12 of its inhabitants. I [...]