I thought this project by photographer/filmmaker Sean Desmond, which is having it’s opening exhibition this Friday at the office/gallery of branding group The Medicine Agency (who were also behind one of my favorite shuttered print magazines, Swindle), was worth sharing.
1. It was about one of my favorite neighborhoods in San Francisco, the much maligned Tenderloin, which combines the grime of any innercity skid row, with classic San Francisco early 20th century architecture, a handful of great dive bars/restaurants/galleries and borders (like, literally across the street from) SF’s main tourist districts. So any time you go drinking in San Francisco, you’re bound to find handfuls of terrified conventioners, desperate to make their way back to Union Square, which is a sight I enjoy.
From Wikipedia, here’s a story about how the TL possibly acquired it’s name:
There are also some legends about the name, probably folklore, including that the neighborhood earned its name from the words of a New York City police captain, Alexander S. Williams, who was overheard saying that when he was assigned to another part of the city, he could only afford to eat chuck steak on the salary he was earning, but after he was transferred to this neighborhood he was making so much money on the side soliciting bribes that now he could eat tenderloin instead.
I’m saying. Hood is grimey.
2. They made very cool short video about the project, which is as intimate a look into TL as I ever seen.
3. The opening is this Friday in SF. Details here.
@MedicineAgency presents the Tenderloin Project (updated)
1. It was about one of my favorite neighborhoods in San Francisco, the much maligned Tenderloin, which combines the grime of any innercity skid row, with classic San Francisco early 20th century architecture, a handful of great dive bars/restaurants/galleries and borders (like, literally across the street from) SF’s main tourist districts. So any time you go drinking in San Francisco, you’re bound to find handfuls of terrified conventioners, desperate to make their way back to Union Square, which is a sight I enjoy.
From Wikipedia, here’s a story about how the TL possibly acquired it’s name:
There are also some legends about the name, probably folklore, including that the neighborhood earned its name from the words of a New York City police captain, Alexander S. Williams, who was overheard saying that when he was assigned to another part of the city, he could only afford to eat chuck steak on the salary he was earning, but after he was transferred to this neighborhood he was making so much money on the side soliciting bribes that now he could eat tenderloin instead.
I’m saying. Hood is grimey.
2. They made very cool short video about the project, which is as intimate a look into TL as I ever seen.
3. The opening is this Friday in SF. Details here.