Nathan Vass
Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night, where his community-building work has been showcased on TED, NPR, The Seattle Times, KING 5 and landed him a spot on Seattle Magazine’s 2018 list of the 35 Most Influential People in Seattle. He has shown in over forty photography shows is also the director of nine films, six of which have shown at festivals, and one of which premiered at Henry Art Gallery. His book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller and 2019 WA State Book Awards finalist.
We arrive twenty minutes late at the food bank on Rainer. It's just closed. A streetwise couple hoping to go there steps off, dejected...
"Hey, do you know what time it is?"
Southbound Third and Marion, as the world is going home. I love it when I know people's...
There she is. I'm swaggering onto the 7 at Genessee, like so many youngsters have done on my own bus. Just a humble passenger...
You're way out at the end of the route, just you and the bus, doing the turnaround in a residential setting. It's a different...
"Wait, what kinda music?"
There'd been a long pause lasting several stops. With some folks you can comfortably switch in and out of silence during...
On a long enough timeline, all clothes worn in the elements turn brown. It's a muted shade of that hue which cloaks these two...
I feel a sense of comfort when low-income or working class people get on. Maybe it's because I come from a similar background. It...
I'm telling them about 12th Avenue, by way of the microphone. "Okay here's 12th Avenue, 12th, good for Youth Services, Labor Union Hall, King...