Gregory Schaffer, showing 21 small portraits at Gallery4Culture through October 29, is involved in deliberate placemaking. Unlike Seattle photographers who work more abstractly, conceptually, privately, or remotely, Schaffer takes pictures of the local unseen, broadening our collective self-portrait.

Below is Schaffer's Somali Grocery Store, MLK Jr. Way S., Seattle (2009) (for students of contemporary photography, comparisons to the iconic "99 Cent" photograph by German pop-gigantist Andreas Gursky are fun). See more of Schaffer's pictures here.