Progressive Street

Size: 29,7 x 21 cm / 56 pages

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22/11/2022

“I met Jess Golden on DeviantArt years ago when Progressive-Street hadn’t become what it is today. I can say that he was my first collaborator. Together we created a space for photographs that told of something more than what we usually see, this we called ‘On the Other Side'. To define him I would use a quote from Alfred Stieglitz that he loves: “I am interested in putting an image down only of what I have seen, not what it means to me. It is only after I have put down an equilavelent of what has moved me that I can begin to think about its meaning.” Batsceba Hardy

Fragments of life, on the streets of Seattle

Jess Golden is 31 years old. He has been interested in photography since he was a kid and has used a variety of cameras. He started with Polaroids when he was around 10 years old. Eventually, he started experimenting with analogue photography during the Lomography craze of the early 2000s when he was a teenager and from Russian rangefinders to cheap plastic Holgas, Jess has been in love with black and white film ever since. He loves his Leica 35mm rangefinder and a good portion of the photos in this book were taken with it. He shoots digital too and has no problem admitting cell phones are amazing portable cameras these days, and one photo in this book was actually taken with an iPhone. He has no dogma or verbal philosophy, but if he does propose a belief it changes from one moment to the next. He considers this is why he is a photographer. He likes still images. He is a still photographer. He is a photographer of the scene.

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