Los Angeles

Photography / Photoshop, 12 inches x 12 inches, 2025

Part of my Urban Portrait series . All photos used in this piece were taken in Los Angeles

I am a photographer , and specifically , a street photographer . I have wondered the streets of Seattle and other cities since I was in my 20’s and still do today , photographing anything that catches my interest . Over the years my focus , excuse the pun , has changed and evolved but one area of interest has remained constant for me : urban decay and finding the beauty in that decay . The images presented here consist of decaying billboards , posters , advertising , flyers , graffiti and street art . These can be found all around the urban environment trying to catch your attention . After they are posted , they rapidly decay with the help of mother nature through wind , rain and sunlight . Within
this decay I look for people looking out from it . I capture these decaying people , repurpose them into Photoshop , then layer , manipulate and create something new and , I hope , pleasant to look at ! I call these images Urban Portraits .

I am a self - taught street photographer who lives and works in Seattle . I have travelled extensively throughout the world and always with a camera in hand .
I shoot both film and digital with various cameras as well as my phone .
SHOWS :
08/1991 - King County Arts Commission solo show : Large format ( 4x5) abstract photographs of the Seattle building boom of the late 1980’s . The only photographer selected that year for a show .
04/1993 - Romper Room Gallery group show : Street photography
07/1993 - Torrefazione Coffee Shop : Street photographs from cities in Italy
09/2017 - Macrina Bakery , SODO and Belltown : Urban Portraits
05/2018. - Macrina Bakery , SODO and Belltown : Urban Portraits
07/2018 - Art / Not Terminal , Seattle Center : Two Photographers show with Mark Gordon
08/2021 - Macrina Bakery SODO and Belltown : Stop Hate . Street photography from cities I have visited . A commentary of eliminating HATE in our world
11/2022 - Macrina Bakery SODO and Belltown : Seattle in the 80's . Architectural photographs
Website : www.chrispoullos.com Instagram : chrispoullos