The Fremont Solstice Celebration

Fremont is a Seattle neighborhood just north of the city center. It was traditionally a blue-collar neighborhood of fishermen, ship chandlers and boatyards. It became the hub of a thriving arts and crafts community and is host to an annual Solstice Celebration -- music and dancing, food and drink, a huge street fair, and a wonderfully goofy parade that allows only human-powered floats and no commercial sponsors, and features lavish costumes (or lack thereof). Alas, Fremont is evolving into a trendy city neighborhood and each year I fear that the Solstice Celebration will be the last one.

Tech Notes
Canon AT-1 SLRs, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm lenses
Ilford HP5+ and Kodak Tmax 400 film

About Ron Hammond

Most of my work is street photography. I am not interested in events and places as much as in people.

“I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life. . . . I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.”
—- Willy Ronis

I wish I had written these words. My photographic hero, one of the great French humanist photographers, said it all for me. I want to show the joy and beauty of what is all around us every day.

Most of my work organizes itself into open-ended projects that are rarely finished but often stop in interesting places for a show or a hand-made book.

Contact:
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Also contributed to:
- Issue 14: Seattle&s Pride Parade