Seattle photojournalist Karen Ducey | news and documentary photographer

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  • Ryan Henry Ward, an artist who specializes in murals and canvas paintings, is photographed in front of a mural he did at Dive Commercial International in Seattle, Wash. on July 24, 2013. Ward, describes his work as {quote}magical pop surrealism{quote} and receives commissions from businesses, schools and individuals to help brighten interior and exterior spaces and provide an effervescent {quote}hip and cool{quote} look to their business. His client list ranges from the Fred Hutchinson to banks to pet portraits. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Elizabeth Jones received the Google SVA scholarship at the University of West Florida while pursuing a bachelor's in electrical engineering. She now works as a work as a systems engineer for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, in Keyport, Washington. (© Karen Ducey)
  • Author Jonathan Raban photographed in his home in Seattle, Washington for The Guardian on October 26, 2016. (© Karen Ducey Photography)
  • Johnna Bouker, from Dillingham, Alaska, rides a four-wheeler with her dog as her father, John Paul Bouker, looks on, in Ekuk, Alaska on July 4, 2019. 964 setnet permits were fished last year in Bristol Bay. Approximately 60 of those are fished on Ekuk, where fishing families set up seasonal camps. (Photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Larry Harvey, the creator of Burning Man, photographed in Seattle. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Washington state Attorney General, Bob Ferguson photographed in Shoreline, Wash. on September 29, 2019. More than half of Ferguson and his teamís litigation against the Trump administration involves environmental protections. He is an avid mountain climber, backpacker, and birder. Ferguson has filed 50 lawsuits against the Trump Administration and has not lost a case. Ferguson has 22 legal victories against the Trump Administration. (photo by Karen Ducey for the Los Angeles Times)
  • Artist Haruko Shimizo and her son, Mike Shimizo at her home in Seattle, Wash. (Photo © Karen Ducey)
  • Sabrina Jones shares a moment with her son Traveonte Glover, age 19 months, in the daycare center at Southwest Youth & Family Services. Sabrina is studying for her GED in a class for teen mothers at the center. She takes a bus about 4 days a week to get here and likes coming to the center because there is always someone there to talk to about family issues if you need it. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • King 5 photojournalist Doug Burgess is the 2015 Best Of Photojournalism Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year. (photo © Karen Ducey)
  • Henry Lo looks out the window of his business and home in Seattle. A woman had been shot outside his doorway last night leaving a bullet hole in the front window of his office and blood on the sidewalk in front. (© Karen Ducey/Seattle PI)
  • LYNNWOOD, WA - APRIL 02: Tiffany Teasdale, owner of Lynnwood Gun, says guns and ammo have been flying off the shelves, as she stands in front of empty gun racks on April 2, 2020 in Lynnwood, Washington. Washington State Governor Jay Inslee did not list gun stores as essential businesses that can stay open in his Stay-at-Home order to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). However, Teasdale and some other gun retail shops say they are following orders by President Trump and state Republicans who advise that the firearms industry can remain open. As a result guns and ammunition has been Second Amendment gun rights advocacy groups are challenging governor’s orders around the country to remain open. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
  • Angeline Johnston, yoga instructor and owner of Richmond Beach Yoga, poses at a beach in Edmonds, Wash. on July 31, 2015. (photo © Karen Ducey)
  • Sal's Barber Shop owners Brian Rauschenbach, left, and Marcus Lalario have groomed their business to cater to the hip-hop crowd, with music in the air and memorabilia on the walls. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Mercedes Yaeger of Market Ghost Tours says ghosts have been seen in the Market Theater in Post Alley behind her in Seattle, Wash. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Junior Renteria, one years old, celebrates Mexican Independence Day with his family at St. Patricks Church in Indianapolis, IN. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • From the series {quote}You are My Home{quote} – {quote}I travel.{quote} says Katie Harris from Ohio as she describes her life on the road with her companion Molly, a five-year-old black lab mix in Seattle, Wash. Harris had found Molly on a farm in Indiana. {quote}Me and her hitch hike across the country and ride the trains.{quote} she said. Harris says its easier to find rides when you have a dog. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Volunteers of the night watch group in the Chinatown - International District in Seattle, Washington on July 20, 2020. The group numbers between 6 - a dozen volunteers a night who patrol the neighborhood (Photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Tristan Hedrick photographed in Bellevue, Washington on January 17, 2019. (photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Layla Bush poses for a portrait with her bullet wounds and scars at her home in Seattle. Bush nearly died after being shot in the Jewish Federation building. (© Karen Ducey/Seattle PI)
  • A poodle models an elegant dog collar. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Anna Oxygen describes her performance as a psychedelic 80's dance adventure. (staff photoo/Karen Ducey)
  • Jennifer Powell poses with an American flag for the photographer in Bothell, Wash. Her husband, Sgt. Christopher Powell with the 181st support batallion of the 81st Brigade will be returning home soon from Iraq. They first met on Jan. 23rd and were married on March 9, 2005, a day before he left for the Middle East. {quote}Everyday we fall in love more and more.{quote} (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Katrina Spade, founder and CEO of Recompose, photographed in Seattle, WA on May 6, 2019. Spade started her business around five years ago with the notion that when she dies, ìI didnít want to be cremated or buried,î preferring natural organic reduction instead. Washington is expected to become the first state to legalize human composting, an environmentally friendly burial alternative that advocates say is not as icky as it sounds. Gov. Jay Inslee is likely to sign a bill authorizing the practice, given that reduced carbon emissions from cremation fit with his climate change platform as a presidential candidate. (photo by Karen Ducey)
  • From left to right: Weber Family Farmsí managers and family members, Deven Johnson, Josh Lyebert, and Adam Weber stand on $1.1 million worth of ready-to-eat russet potatoes in one of their refrigerated potato storage bays in Quincy, Washington on May 1, 2020. That particular bay holds 16 million pounds of potatoes, 20 feet deep in a building 340 feet long -just slightly less than the length of a football field. Weber Family Farms is a a third-generation farming family, started by Adam's grandfather, Bill Weber, in the late 1960s.A billion pounds of excess potatoes in Washington state, second largest potato producer in the country. About 70 percent of its crop usually goes to overseas, to Pacific Rim countries primarily, in the form of french fries, but with so many restaurants/food service closed in U.S. and internationally, they have way more potatoes than they can sell. Last year they didnít have enough to meet demand; now growers are facing the prospect of losing it all. (photo by Karen Ducey)
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  • Chuck Holmes of the Edmonton Flyers, a minor-league Canadian hockey player, played against the Seattle Totems from about 1955-1963 and recieved a full share of animosity from Seattle fans. When he was traded in 1965-1972 to the Totems the fans grew to love him. In 1972 he became coach but the Totems had the worst season in WHL histtory. He now lives on Bainbridge Island. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • K.C. Herren plays baseball for Auburn High School. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Laser light artist, John Borcherding, poses for a portrait at the Pacific Science Center. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Ryan Henry Ward, an artist who specializes in murals and canvas paintings, peers out the window of his colorful van in Seattle, Wash. on July 24, 2013. Ward, describes his work as {quote}magical pop surrealism{quote} and receives commissions from businesses, schools and individuals to help brighten interior and exterior spaces and provide an effervescent {quote}hip and cool{quote} look to their business. His client list ranges from the Fred Hutchinson to banks to pet portraits. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Angela Lee, stands in the kitchen of the home she grew up in in the Kong Yick Apartments in the Chinatown - International District in Seattle, Washington on July 15, 2020. The apartment now belongs to her aunt. Donnie Chin, director of the International District Emergency Center (IDEC) was murdered on July 23, 2015. The murderer was never found. (Photo by Karen Ducey)
  • Team SoloMid (TSM) competes against Team Dignitas in the finals at the Riot Games League of Legends NA Regionals during PAX Prime at the Convention Center in Seattle, Wash. on September 2, 2012. eam SoloMid: Shan Huang, Chaox), Brian Wyllie, (TheOddOne), Andy Dinh (Reginald), Alex Chu (Xpecial), Marcus Hill (Dyrus). Team Dignitas: Michael Santana (Imaqtpie ), Christian Rivera (I Will Dominate), William Li (Scarra), Jordan Blackburn (Patoy), and Alberto Rengifo (Crumbzz) (Photos by KarenDucey.com)
  • When David is taken swimming each week, he just floats, sometimes for the entire session. In the water he experiences what hydrotherapists call {quote}body awareness{quote}, a realization of his physical nature. David Pyle was born both deaf and blind. Considered {quote}uneducatable{quote} by his pre school teachers, David never learned a formal sign language. Today, at age 32, David is considered developmentally disabled. He uses minimal gestures to communicate. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Kathy Bentson, a former research scientist in the Primate Center at the University of Washington, stands in front of a tall, blue wooden wall bearing No Trespassing signs that blocks the public's view of the construction of the new underground animal research lab in Seattle, Wash. on September 21, 2016. In the rear is the William H. Foege Building for Bioengineering and Genome Sciences. Bentson is trying to submit the results of a study she did with others on how to reduce the prevalence of abnormal behaviors in laboratory monkeys to peer review journals, but has met a lot of resistance from the university. (© Karen Ducey Photography)
  • Jarvis and Elmer, from the Grinners and Pickers, on their front porch in Indianapolis. (© Karen Ducey)
  • A couple offers $5 parking spaces in their yard outside the Indianapolis 500. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Paula Jean Stierns (left) lies passed out on her husband's lap. She had lived in a shack with her husband Donald Raymond Stierns (right) for almost four years off N. Skyview Dr. in Sultan,WA. After their shack caught on fire the pair moved into a trailer which someone had donated to them. About a dozen people live in makeshift housing on the Skyview Dr. upsetting many in the city. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Evan Fink, lead tech from the Washington state Department of Transportation, from Twisp, WA, leans out of his car window to watch a plow shovel snow as he talks with Jeff Adamson (left), DOT communications manager for NW region. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Wanda Bryant smokes a cigarette while halibut fishing in Alaska. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Katie Merwick shows lots of affection to her horses on her ranch, the Second Chance Ranch in Elma, Wash. on December 12, 2007. Merwick has 23 rescue horses, most of whom were discarded form the race horse industry, and 11 dogs and a wolf sanctuary. She had no power for 4 days during a recent storm and her fields are still muddy from all the rain. Today one of her horses suffered from cholic (sp?) and had to be walked constantly so he couldn't lie down and possibly roll over moving his intestines and killing him. The vet came to visit and friends of hers showed up to help.
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  • Comtesse Suzanne de Paris, President and CEO of Suzanne de Paris Prodits waits for speeches to begin at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. Suzanne, a resident of New Jersey, is a {quote}staunch supporter of G.W. Bush{quote} and proudly wears her pin picturing she and the president taken in 2002. (© copyright Karen Ducey)
  • Howard Bates, age 92, sits in front of a 1932 Auburn 8 cylinder convertible at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum where he works as a docent. Indiana's luxury car industry flourished through the depression but didn't survive the industry trend toward inexpensive, mass produced vehicles introduced afterwards. (© copyright Karen Ducey/ Indianapolis Star)
  • THIS IS NO PIGNIC. {quote}Rocket{quote}, the Indiana State Fair Grand Champion Market Barrow who likes to eat marshmellows and Lucky Charms eats the set during his photo shoot. The 264 pound, 8 month old pig raised by Jamey Albrecht of Crawfordsville, IN sold for $10,000 at the 4H Sale of Champions and will go towards Jamey's college education where she wants to be on a livestock judging team. (© Karen Ducey/Indianapolis Star)
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