A book featuring portraits of people who sing karaoke at Lottie’s Lounge in Seattle. Read the interview about the book in The Stranger here.
Every Tuesday night for the last year, hosts DiaboliCOLE and The L Word have attracted an eclectic blend of folks eager to sing, drink and hang, many of them now memorialized here in close-up glory on crisp medium-format film.
I shot these portraits over one night in spring 2023 in a makeshift outdoor studio set up across the street from Lottie’s. I handed out disposable cameras for the bar patrons to pass around, the results of which make up the other part of the book. In place of typed captions for each photo are scans of the paper slips on which the singers write their name and chosen track.
Lottie’s first lured me into its cozy corner spot on Rainier Ave back when I was just knee-high to a grasshopper and it was still a cafe. I shot the portraits on a Mamiya C330, an old medium-format film camera, whose frames are much larger than the standard 35mm.
I was particularly inspired by Lee Nye’s portraits of bar patrons at Eddie’s Club in Missoula, MT, as well as the likes of Nan Goldin, Jim Goldberg, Roy Decarava, and local photographer West Smith, among many others.
Edition of 150
All copies purchased here will be signed by me!
Tax Included - FREE US SHIPPING
ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY IN-PERSON AT: Elliott Bay Book Company, Lottie’s Lounge (Columbia City), Andaluz (CC), Paper Portal Used Books (Madrona) Third Place Books Seward Park, Ophelia’s Books (Fremont), Moody’s Film Lab (Burien), Quimby’s Books (Brooklyn, NY), and Librairie n'était-ce pas l'été and Librairie Raffin Plaza St-Hubert in Montreal.
A book featuring portraits of people who sing karaoke at Lottie’s Lounge in Seattle. Read the interview about the book in The Stranger here.
Every Tuesday night for the last year, hosts DiaboliCOLE and The L Word have attracted an eclectic blend of folks eager to sing, drink and hang, many of them now memorialized here in close-up glory on crisp medium-format film.
I shot these portraits over one night in spring 2023 in a makeshift outdoor studio set up across the street from Lottie’s. I handed out disposable cameras for the bar patrons to pass around, the results of which make up the other part of the book. In place of typed captions for each photo are scans of the paper slips on which the singers write their name and chosen track.
Lottie’s first lured me into its cozy corner spot on Rainier Ave back when I was just knee-high to a grasshopper and it was still a cafe. I shot the portraits on a Mamiya C330, an old medium-format film camera, whose frames are much larger than the standard 35mm.
I was particularly inspired by Lee Nye’s portraits of bar patrons at Eddie’s Club in Missoula, MT, as well as the likes of Nan Goldin, Jim Goldberg, Roy Decarava, and local photographer West Smith, among many others.
Edition of 150
All copies purchased here will be signed by me!
Tax Included - FREE US SHIPPING
ALSO AVAILABLE TO BUY IN-PERSON AT: Elliott Bay Book Company, Lottie’s Lounge (Columbia City), Andaluz (CC), Paper Portal Used Books (Madrona) Third Place Books Seward Park, Ophelia’s Books (Fremont), Moody’s Film Lab (Burien), Quimby’s Books (Brooklyn, NY), and Librairie n'était-ce pas l'été and Librairie Raffin Plaza St-Hubert in Montreal.