What Are You Most Looking Forward to This Summer?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
(Sam Gehrke)

"I'm taking a bike tour with my sister and good friend. We're going to bike from Vancouver, B.C., back down here to Portland."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Being able to rock all of my heat that I couldn't wear during the winter."

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"I'm looking forward to going down to L.A. again."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Being outside as much as I can!"

(Sam Gehrke)

(Left) "Being able to skate more, and the shade." (Right) "Traveling!"

(Sam Gehrke)

"Just having fun—roller skating, music video shoots. As simple as that—just relaxing and having fun."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I'm looking forward to lots of shows!"

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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