US PACIFIC NORTHWEST
I said I would never move back to the Pacific Northwest. I lived here in the early 2000s, sharing a house in the Fremont area of Seattle with a gang of skip-diving anarchist radicals, my girlfriend was a Lance Bass impersonator and I baked in a veganfriendly coffee shop. I filled my free time by taking part in a rogue marching band and silk-screening political patches for my friends to wear on their thrift-store denim jackets. My life was basically one long Portlandia episode when I decided to leave; I was ready to grow up and be taken seriously and I felt like there was no way that was possible in the Northwest. So I moved to London and became a little disparaging about my hometown, a city many Londoners seemed to swoon over. But nearly 15 years later I’ve some how found myself back in Washington State and I decide it’s time to see if, like me, this place has grown up.
Seattle’s skyline, ranging from the Space Needle to the Seattle Great Wheel, can be seen on a clear summer day from Elliott Bay
PHOTOS ALABASTRO PHOTOGRAPHY, HOWARD FRISK