What Would The Ideal View From Your Home Be?

Our favorite looks on the streets of Portland this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
By Sam Gehrke

"A view of a culturally diverse population having dance battles in vintage clothing."

"Really like the skyline of the city here. I love the nightlife and lights in Portland."

(Left) "My ideal view would be corrupt politicians being publicly humiliated."
(Right) "I want to say mountains but I'm also OK with seeing people doing
the thing that is life."

"Silence."

"My ideal view would be of Cherry Flat in the Trinity Alps. Perfect place to lay in the sun like a lizard."

(Left) "Water, definitely water." (Right): "A taqueria!"

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Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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