Due to the pending holiday this church I do work for needed a special photo for their downtown seattle front window. A big part of what they do is keep people off the street and feed them…. so the idea for a homeless nativity scene…
It was of course pouring rain… so with a crew of light stand handlers, camera bag guards, prop assistants, and actors we proceeded to the garbage filled alley….
A Native American Musician performing at a church in Seattle.
These images are from a magazine CCS published for a time.
Retiring Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seattle Alexander Brunett hands off his crozier to his successor J. Peter Sartain 11-30-10.
Tony is a Catholic Priest in Seattle….He runs a parish and a “club” for merchant mariners who find themselves halfway around the world on a ship and no place to go.
Christmas 2010 I photographed him delivering some presents to a Ukrainian crew on Panamanian ship just in from China and waiting to load up with soybeans for a trip to Bangladesh. They have been at anchor for 10 days already… no one is allowed to leave the ship since they don’t have visas. A typical situation.
This assignment was for the University Magazine at George Fox College in Oregon. Quotes used are gleaned from various reviews of books written by Sweet or from Leonard Sweet himself.
About 90 people a year are killed or die from exposure on the streets of Seattle. This shelter keeps crosses for each them to be remembered.
