I’m honored to be featured in the Spring 2025 issue of Pamplemousse Magazine—The Balance Issue #11. Pamplemousse is a new, innovative photography magazine devoted to film photography, published by Nora Lalle in San Francisco. It’s beautifully designed, printed on quality paper with excellent production values. This issue is particularly intriguing for its dual covers. Instead of a back cover, which is typically an advertising page, there’s another front cover, with another masthead, editor’s statement, contents page, etc. Like a double album from 2 different bands. My feature is one of the two cover features in the issue. The work is from a color film project I did while I was a student at the recently shuttered San Francisco Art Institute, which focused on the Outer Sunset, the westernmost neighborhood in San Francisco south of Golden Gate Park. This was my first color project, shot on Kodachrome and Ektachome color slide film with a Leica M4 camera. Though the work is now almost a half century old, this is the first time any of these photographs have been published. At 22 pages it’s one of the biggest magazine features of my career. It brings back many memories of where I was as a photographer in the late 70s, refining my craft, hoping for a meaningful career, and still uncertain of how to get there. But I was certain about this subject, the Outer Sunset, a neighborhood, which at that time was a place apart.
The slideshow below includes the cover and spreads from the feature. You can find out more about Pamplemousse here.
Photographs from my spread in Pamplemousse Magazine will be on display at Black Bird Bookstore and The Last Straw Gallery, which are both located in the Outer Sunset neighborhood very near the site of the Surf Theatre. The opening reception and talk is Friday, May 30, 7-9PM.
An invite to the reception is available on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-sexton-outer-sunset-tickets-1339147669729?aff=oddtdtcreator
A podcast interview hosted by Nicole Meldahl, director of Western Neighborhoods Project, with Nora Lalle, publisher of Pamplemousse, and yours truly, can be listened to here: https://outsidelands.org/podcast/WNP563_Nora_Lalle__Richard_Saxton
