Timothy Brenton Memorial

I took these shots almost a month ago at the memorial held for Officer Tim Brenton, an officer shot to death in the Leschi neighborhood of Seattle.
I hadn't thought much about them accept that they were good practice, but in light of current events surrounding police officers, I came back to these. I thought it appropriate to post my photo-journalistic approach to the reaction of the death of just one police officer in the city of Seattle.
The center was packed with police-officers, firemen, bike cops, SWAT members, emergency care vehicles, and literally any government sponsored workers. Otherwise, the place was deserted. I was the only person there not in uniform, and was thankfully ignored in my jeans and slippers as people paid their respects. These are my favorite shots.
50mm 1.2 lens

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Photo Essay - New Media

November 13, 2009

This is my second new media project. Our concept was to photograph local

business owners on Capitol Hill to capture the essence of our neighborhood through the hard working people who bring us all of

the localized services we need. I don't have the official intro but I will try to post it later. We ended up only exploring the businesses on East Pine Street, which was fine because there is a really diverse community on that one street alone. I hope you enjoy these.

• Capitol Club owners Lou and Lisa
• Le Frock owners Sharon and granddaughter
• Juliano's Pizza owner Juliano Cabrini
• Wall of Sound owner Jeffrey Taylor

Photographs by Christina Russo

Design and layout by Sam Bae

Printing and Design by Oliver Diaz

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FRIENDS

Sorry I haven't posted for a long while, I developed a nasty case of mononucleosis just a week before school began and have been religiously sleeping/studying since. Now that I'm all healed I'll be back at Starbucks this Saturday and will definitely have something more interesting to say. I thought it might be difficult to keep this blog all film because my classes are primarily digital, but we are doing some work on 4x5 cameras that I really enjoy. I should have some of those photos up soon. I would tell you

all the nerdy details of the photography program I'm in and totally geek out, but I value your time much more than that. Until next time, christina.

Above are some photos of me AT school, not taken by me.

I've got some friends

Taken sometime in August, this is a portrait of Ben in my kitchen on Mercer.

Welcome to the neighborhood, by the way.

Minolta XR-7

Listening to: Love is Simple by Akron/Family

(wishing i was seeing them today)