Tassels and Emeralds started as a book and has turned into a periodical.
The book is a collection of photographs taken from two years of extensive and intensive work documenting the explosive growth of Seattle’s burlesque scene, ranging from the intimacy of the Pink Door to the extravagance of the Triple Door, capturing respected pillars of the community and a host of up and comers.
It started as a personal project, a private artifact of the work I’d done shooting the local scene. I had a sizable archive and I wanted some thing that I could hold and show to people that would be more memorable than just another business card or website that could be lost in the shuffle. At best it was a haphazard project, something I worked on after hours. I didn’t know that when I started showing it around, it would develop a life of its own and that it would take up many more hours in the process of releasing something more fitting of public consumption. It was exhausting work but I am very proud of the final product.
Tassels and Emeralds is a 160 page book and is available at Blurb, $55 for hardcover, $35 for paperback.
In 2010, I started a new project under the same masthead, a magazine of my favorite pictures, and available from MagCloud.
The first two issues are 24 pages each and cover events in 2009. Future issues will be slightly larger and cover a three or four months at a time. I’ll keep updating on this as it comes.
