What Do You Want Most For the Holidays?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
(Sam Gehrke)

"As I get older, I think less about material gifts for Christmas and the holidays. I guess I want to be able to cook something for my mom, 'cause she's always cooking for me."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I want everyone to have a place to go and be welcome for Christmas."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Just to spend time with friends since my family is gonna be out of town for Christmas and the holidays."

(Sam Gehrke)

Left: "Right now, I want a car really bad." Right: "Probably a trip to the Bahamas."

(Sam Gehrke)

"This year, not really any type of physical present. I just want my whole family under one roof for the holidays."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I've already got everything I want, so good health for my family and me."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Definitely Donald Trump's impeachment. I want that motherfucker out of there. It'd be the ultimate Christmas gift for me."

(Sam Gehrke)

"For me, I only wish for civility to be more widespread for the holidays. It's hard to think of anything material these days."

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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