View a set of New York Street Portraits.

View a documentary of Seattle's Banya 5.

 

Collaborations:

July 2003 marked the release of a new CD by Stephen Yerkey, titled Up From Mo's. For the art and design, I collaborated with Renee Harcourt and Alicia Buelow, and the production and mastering was a collaboration with David Paulson and BZ Lewis. You can purchase a copy from me using the Paypal link below
 

You can also buy a copy of the San Francisco Song Cycle CD, the 32 best tracks from the two and a half years of my San Francisco Song Cycle concert series.

If you are interested in custom art prints of any the images on this site, you can order them by clicking one of the paypal buttons below. In the comments window, be sure to specify which image you would like.

For Black & White 8x10s:

For Color 8x10s:

 

OR you can send me a check to:
Tom Erikson, 563 Shotwell Street, San Francsico, CA 94110
I recently contributed photography to Sonja Hunter's new CD, Sun in Mind. See other images and buy a CD at www.sonyahunter.com

I've done many photographs of the talented singer Jane Silke over the years, and her new CD,
i gorgona, features one of my stranger shots on the cover. Take a look at it and other images at www.plainjane.org.

 
My friend Renee Harcourt used some of my photos for the calendar she produces each year for her design company, i4design. Here are a few of the images:
 
 
 
 

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Alicia Buelow has helped me to create artful representations of some of the encounters I have had with portrait/interview subjects over the years in my never-ending attempt to present my work in new forms. This example is drawn from documentary portraits, an interview, drawings and notes from a class I took from Allen Ginsberg at The Naropa Institute.
 

 
 

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And my friend Hugh (designer of these web pages and illustrator extraordinaire) did this wild illustration of my nephews, which he used in his own promotional calendar:
 
 
Hugh used one of my photos as a reference:
 
 
Patti Smith performed in the dark at the Great American Music Hall, and so I've treated the images I shot at 6400 ASA with the help of Photoshop, Nigel and Kobi.