Seattle, one neighborhood at a time

Seattle is not one place. Ballard is not Georgetown, and neither one is Rainier Beach. The city's own atlas divides it into ninety-four neighborhoods, and I'm working through them with a camera. Properly, not just the postcard vantages.

Every shape on this map is a real neighborhood boundary. The colours sort them into the city's twenty districts, which is nearer to how people here actually talk; nobody tells you they live in Briarcliff, they say Magnolia. A warm dot marks the ones I have photographed. Click any shape, including the empty ones.

These first posts are from my personal archive. I have been photographing this city for years and planning this site for a few of them, so there is a backlog to put up before any of my new stuff gets posted. That was deliberate. Waiting on perfect new light is a good way to never launch anything in a city that hands it over about twice a year.