Inside the span of an hour past weekend, I went from getaway shopping at several little firms in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood to getting my COVID-19 booster shot at Amazon’s headquarters downtown.

In one particular community I saw nevertheless yet another reminder of how some people today see the e-commerce huge in their midst. In an additional, I confronted my possess generally vacillating viewpoint of the firm. The length involving the two was a very short generate, but it is been a lengthy journey.

I have been in Seattle for a minor additional than 25 several years. Amazon arrived just before me. In the time due to the fact, I’ve witnessed the wonderful transform Seattle has undergone, considerably of it around the final ten years as Amazon and other tech providers have grown enormously in the metropolis.

I’ve expended a good deal of that time documenting the modify as portion of my personalized passion as a photographer, and much more recently as a reporter for GeekWire. I appreciate avenue photography —  capturing previous companies, signage, architecture and scenery. I like images that illustrate the juxtapositions involving what was and what’s now.

I also get a kick out of a wide range of so-named avenue artwork these types of as stencils, stickers and posters that are very well developed or express a message that’s really worth a double-just take. In Capitol Hill, and in significantly of Seattle, it is all portion of the landscape. Due to the fact of the business and individuals I now produce about, I can not support but see and ponder the anti-tech and anti-Amazon messages. There have been a great deal.

Final weekend I was drawn to yet another variation of the ubiquitous “Go home tech bro” sticker, slapped to a mild pole in close proximity to Pike Road. This sentiment has made me imagine for many years about who may be sticking it, and whom they are sticking it to. 

The cry to go away is not exceptional to Seattle. “Tech bros” are certainly staying explained to to go home in San Francisco and Austin and New York and in other places. Tech changes a…