Photography
Seattle Startup Turns Your Smartphone into a Camera with Cinema-quality Lenses
Moment is capitalizing on the rise of mobile photography, and now has millions of dollars in sales.
Moments story is straightforward. There was this massive cultural movement happening around the smartphone, says Marc Barros. Everyone was using it as their camera, but no one had said, Hey, thats a camera. Lets make a family of accessories around it. So, in 2013, Barros, who previously created the Go-Pro rival known as Contour, launched…
Celebrating the Photographer Who Chronicled Seattles African-American Community for Six Decades
"On the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith" opens this month at MOHAI and will run until June 2018.
FOCAL POINT: Al Smith photographed singer Vivian Dandridge (above), older sister of Dorothy Dandridge, at Seattle’s China Pheasant restaurant in 1953. This article appears in print in the November 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Albert Joseph Septimus Al Smith grew up above a grocery store in Seattle, the son of a couple…