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Dear Diaries are Stupid…
My name is Chris Blakeley, I live in Seattle and I take pictures. A lot of them.
Where to start?
I’ve been using cameras ever since I recognized what they were and what they were capable of, although I never took it especially seriously. I got my start with a 110 format camera when I was in first grade, graduating to 35mm and APS in high school, but it was always so expensive and so finicky to get just so. So I forgot.
Then digital became affordable and I remembered what I liked about the art again. Then Flickr made it easy to share what I was doing. Then I figured that maybe, just maybe, I could consider myself something of a photographer.
So here I am, 1800 miles from my hometown in a city that keeps me interested almost all the time, spinning in its wake.
A body could get used to this.
Tools of the Trade
Canon 50D – The workhorse. This is the camera I use for all my burlesque work and a lot of other odds and ends.
Canon SX200IS – The walkabout camera. It’s always in my bag, although it’s still new enough that I sometimes need to remember that, yes, I do have a camera.
Canon AE-1 Program – An FD model 35mm, hardly “program”, but revolutionary in its day. Film is still expensive, it’s still a luxury, but I love the way it looks and feels.
CV
Staff Photographer, Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy of Burlesque, 2007 – Present.
Staff Photographer, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School (Seattle), May 2007 – May 2009.
Work Published in: Seattle Times, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, Kitsap Sun, Washington State Tourism website (ExperienceWA), NPR, Useless Magazine, Shimmy Magazine
Work Featured in: The Unlikely Career of Waxie Moon (film)
Author: Tassels and Emeralds: A Guide to Seattle Burlesque (book, ongoing periodical)
