MORE PAINT
$60.00
A meditation on place and power, MORE PAINT sketches a portrait of Seattle in the midst of unraveling and reassembly. Brandon Bye’s photographs are sharp and disquietingly familiar—scenes we pass without seeing. Paired with spare, unsentimental prose, Bye captures a city grinding against itself, a city where homelessness, policy, and civic identity crash and splinter.
Between permanence and erasure, ownership and displacement, this debut photobook is a study in tensions. It invites us to question the forces shaping our environment, to stop and look again at what gets covered up, and why.
Item Description
Photographed over two years and spanning 160 pages, MORE PAINT documents a pivotal moment in Seattle’s history, following as it navigates the layered politics of public space. Across seven chapters, Bye offers an unfiltered reflection of the city’s shifting identity, tracing graffiti, encampments, and the architecture, and aesthetics, of erasure. Printed on uncoated stock and bound with care, the book stands as both object and archive—a still-point amid the motion, preserving the textures and patterns of a city remade.
Specifications
Format
10.5 × 10.5 in hardcover
7/8 in spine thickness
Navy linen spine with exposed 3 mm chipboard
7.5 × 5 in tipped-in photograph set into a debossed panel
Spot UV gloss varnish on cover image
Foil-stamped cover and spine text
Interior
160 pages
Uncoated matte stock
Spot varnish applied to all interior images
Credits
Photographs & Text: Brandon Bye
Editor: Lisa van Dam-Bates
Design & Print Production: Nate Gowdy
Acknowledgment
This project was supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.
MORE PAINT is a meditation on place and power — a portrait of Seattle's shifting landscape amid the tide of civic control. Layered, lonely, and disquietingly familiar images pair with spare, observational prose, as Brandon Bye documents a city at a crossroads. A city where homelessness, public policy, and urban identity collide. With painterly composition and a documentarian's eye, Bye turns his lens to alleyways, overpasses, and graffitied walls — spaces often overlooked or erased. The result is a study in tensions: permanence versus erasure, ownership versus displacement, and the quiet struggle for visibility and survival. This debut photobook is an invitation-to pause, to observe, and to notice the forces shaping our environment.
Item Description:
In one 160-page hardcover volume, MORE PAINT documents a pivotal moment in Seattle’s history—photographed over three years, as the city grapples with rising homelessness, expanding civic control, and the layered politics of public space. Through seven chapters of street photography and prose, Brandon Bye offers an unfiltered reflection of Seattle’s shifting identity, tracing graffiti, encampments, and the architecture of erasure. Printed on uncoated stock and bound with care, the book serves as both object and archive—a quiet record of a city in flux, and the systems that shape it.
• 160 pages, 4-color throughout
• 8.5" × 11" landscape format
• Printed on 150gsm Magno Volume paper (FSC-certified)
• Smyth-sewn, square-backed binding
• Satin-laminated hardcover with gloss brown foil stamping
• Produced by Pristone in Singapore
• Published by Pigeon Editions, 2025
