More Paint
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
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
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