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Isaac Sachs
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I take photos, often but not exclusively in Portland, OR
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Rainier #art #photography
A church stands behind a utility pole on a street corner at the top of a gentle hill above a river. Steam rises from a wood pulp mill across the river in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Shine-Gri-La #art #photography
Two fishermen stand on a rocky shore below a truss section of a bridge in the late afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Snohomish #art #photography
Two electrical transmission towers stand above a new housing development.
September 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Potlatch #art #photography
A hydroelectric powerhouse sits at the base of a pair of penstocks which cut through a wooded hillside.
September 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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St. Helens #art #photography
A drive-through coffee stand in the parking lot of a commercial fueling station has an electrical substation behind it. A line of trees is behind the the electrical substation.
September 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Shelton #art #photography
A Chinese restaurant with an aging neon sign and wooden siding stands in front of two electrical transmission towers.
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Tumwater #art #photography
A water tower with a forest treeline painted on it and a cell tower stand behind houses at sunset.
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Port Townsend #art #photography
New and under-construction houses are on the other side of a fence. Behind the houses is a line of trees and two cell towers. In front of the fence are a row of newly planted trees and freshly planted grass seed.
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Clackamas #art #photography
Three radio towers at sunset. Rows of houses are perched on a hill behind them.
September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Kent #art #photography
A law office building with a row of parking bollards in front of it sits immediately in front of a tall, cylindrical water tower that has stairs wrapping around it and a large mural of trees and Mount Rainier painted on it.
September 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Lynnwood #art #photography
An electrical transmission tower stands behind houses on a cul-de-sac.
August 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Sherwood
A high voltage electrical transmission line looms above a suburban house.
July 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Norwood/Tualatin #art #photography
Two houses in the foreground have water tanks and a cellular tower immediately behind them.
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Kelly Butte Substation #art #photography
Two cars are parked next to a residential building. The road the cars are on leads to the gate of an electrical substation, which is partly hidden by trees behind the residential building.
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Mt. Tabor Substation #art #photography
A Portland Craftsman bungalow has a substation and a cell tower in the lot next to it. There's a grey VW New Beetle parked on the street in front.
May 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Mummy's #art #photography
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Del Rancho #art #photography #nightphotography
The Del Rancho Motel has a 50s-style mostly-working sign with neon. It's on a wide street, and in the background there's a mountain with houses and radio towers on it. The sky is pastel with the last light of blue hour.
February 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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50th Avenue Salon #art #photography #nightphotography
A hair salon in a house with a brightly lit canopy over the entrance stands in front of a new-build apartment building at night.
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Rainbow Dragon #art #photography
A Chinese restaurant called Rainbow Dragon has a sign that looks like a stylized sailing ship, complete with anchor.
February 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Stay out! #art #photography
An abandoned house has boarded-up windows with "stay out" and "no trespassing" spray-painted on the boards. There is a utility pole in front of the house, trees behind the house, and a water tower in the middle distance behind the trees.
February 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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saw this and had to pull over to do a @christopherlhall.bsky.social #art #photography
A dull green 1965-1968 Plymouth Sport Fury sits in front of a Victorian house painted a similar shade of green. A pair of shoes hangs over the utility lines crossing the street in front of the house.
February 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Silver Lake #art #photography
A dirt road cuts through Central Oregon sagebrush forest on a cloudy day; multiple power lines cross in different directions through the landscape.
February 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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@paglen.studio : “Artificial intelligence” also doesn’t really mean anything, and it has a lot of ideological associations. It’s a term that lends itself to mystification. #IA #art #photography aperture.org/editorial/tr...
Trevor Paglen on Artificial Intelligence, UFOs, and Mind Control
The pioneering artist was one of the first to reckon with AI. Now he’s happy the rest of the world is catching up.
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December 9, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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another from the archives #art #photography #filmphotography #largeformatphotography #largeformat #4x5 #kodak #portra400
A well-manicured lawn with a fire hydrant on it separates two new-build houses. Behind the houses is a line of trees, and behind the line of trees are two large high-voltage transmission towers connecting to a substation underneath.
January 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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wishing for cloudy days and digging up more substations from the archive #art #photography #filmphotography #largeformatphotography #largeformat #4x5 #kodak #portra400
An electrical substation on a city corner lot is surrounded by rows of trees in front of a chain-link fence. The city corner lot that previously held the substation pictured in the other image in this post is now an empty space. A gate into the lot now stands unconnected to any fencing.
January 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM