What’s Your Favorite Summer Snack?

Our favorite looks on Portland's streets this week.

(Sam Gehrke)

[Drops guitar] "Oh fuck…peppers and Coke!"

(Sam Gehrke)

(Left) "Watermelons are the best in the summer. Anything fruit really." (Right) "Salami, cheese and crackers is a good summer spread, and some sort of fruit drink."

"The food they give the koi fish at the Japanese Garden!"

(Left) "I live on cantaloupe in the summer." (Right) "Tacos! Summer and otherwise."

"Vegan soft-serve ice cream."

(Left) "Pickles and whiskey." (Right) "I'd have to go with cantaloupe."

"We both think orange cream ice pops."

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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