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2007 SF Pride Portraits : 2007 Gay Pride Yearbook

On Sunday June 24, 2007 between the hours of 10am - 1:30pm, during San Francisco's 37th Annual Gay Pride Parade, a photo project ensued capturing just some of the vibrant and diverse faces that make up the gay community. The goal was to see who would want to show their pride for the camera - and the world!

With a lot of help from my friends and family, we set our backdrop against the Art Institute building in the UN Plaza between 7th & 8th Streets on Market St. Before we could even complete setting up people were gathering to see what we were up to. Within 2.5 hours we captured hundreds of smiling, proud faces (with some straight folks too!).

Since many times the media is unable to do it for us, we have here now a small collection of what our community REALLY looks like. Take a look, you may just find yourself.

The photographs have now been assembled into a coffee table book by My Publisher.com and it's now available for purchase online at the following link (copy and paste this link into a new browser window, minus the quotes).
Gay Pride Yearbook: "http://www.mypublisher.com/bookshelf/bookviewer.py?d=cppl%60je%3E3372798-tq%3E2"

And due to popular demand, we'll be expanding this project in 2008 and possibly in other locations around the US and the world - so stay tuned!!!!

2007 SF Pride Portraits

2007 SF Pride Mug Shots : 2007 Gay Pride Yearbook - Mug Shots

We needed a way to tie faces to names for the portrait project. So we came up with the plan to have all participants fill out the white board with their name and sexuality. As you can see, we had some straight folks show their pride, too!

2007 SF Pride Mug Shots

2008 SF Pride Portraits : "United by Pride, Bound by Equality" - The 38th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade Yearbook
Photography by Colton Weeks

OK Let me start by saying this wasn't the best year for pride portraits. First, we arrived much later than last year. Second, for some odd reason, the sunshine was not shining on our spot the same way it did last year (global warming or something? not sure...). And lastly, my damn backdrop is too small for all the people who like to squeeze together for their pictures.

So I'm not terribly impressed with this set of pictures, I'm sorry to say. Not because of the models, as you can see there was plenty of enthusiasm. But I'm all about the finished product and this collection of pictures is not as compelling as 2007. But I'm not giving up either. Now I'll get busy working in Photoshop to clean up the backgrounds and make it all about the faces.

Keep checking back for updates, over time these pictures will be improved to look more like those taken in 2007. For 2007, the photographs have now been assembled into a coffee table book by My Publisher.com and it's now available for purchase online at the following link (copy and paste this link into a new browser window, minus the quotes).
2007 Gay Pride Yearbook: "http://www.mypublisher.com/bookshelf/bookviewer.py?d=cppl`je>3372798-tq>2"

Thank you all for your participation! Thank you for showing your PRIDE!!

Colton

2008 SF Pride Portraits

2009 SF Pride Portraits : Here are the portraits from San Francisco's 2009 Pride Celebration - "To Form a More Perfect Union". Now I'll start working on post-production work and editing these shots down to the keepers. Keep checking back for updates! And THANK YOU ALL for showing your pride for the camera - we have our largest collection yet!!!

2009 SF Pride Portraits

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