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An old eating establishment in a rapidly gentrifying area of San Francisco.
Today you get a San Francisco photograph — since that’s where I’ve been hanging out for most of the past week or so. I am a member of Studio Nocturne, a group of photographers who do night photography. The group has a history going back several decades, and I’ve been working with them for the past decade or so. My night photography has evolved over that time — back in about 2003 when I first explored the genre I was photographing what I think of as “industrial landscapes” of abandoned industrial sites. More recently I found that small digital cameras allow me to photograph with a handheld camera in urban settings, and I’ve been adding night street photography to the mix.
To get back to this building… our open studio was in the Potrero district, at the edge of an area that has long housed things like warehouses, industrial concerns, and so forth. Like pretty much all of San Francisco, this area is rapidly losing its former character as it is taken over by condominiums and newer business that serve the new residences. This place, whose signs describe it as a place to get sandwiches, undoubtedly once served the working folks in the area, and time will tell whether or not it manages to find a clientele among the new residents. Meanwhile, when I’m in “The City” I make a point of photographing these places, many of which may no longer be there in a few years.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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