2024 Annual Customer Show

Show card image courtesy of Yvonne Cohen.

Blue Moon’s annual Customer Show for 2024 is coming up in just a few weeks!

From 7pm to 9pm on Saturday, December 7th at 4 different venues in our St Johns neighborhood you’ll be able to drop by 45th Parallel Wines, Revolutions Bookshop, Affogato and Leisure Public House to enjoy some of the work made by our community and hand picked by our staff as photos that particularly stood out to us throughout the year. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet other customers — as well as our staff who will all be in attendance.

Finally, after the show head back over to 45th Parallel Wines where they’ll be hosting our annual drinks & dance social. As Jake likes to say, nobody throws a party like Blue Moon Camera & Machine!

Can’t make it in person? You can always view this year’s show, as well as past years, on our website!

Welcome to the 22nd Blue Moon Camera Customer Show.

Since our humble beginnings, Blue Moon Camera and Machine's philosophy has been to make photography accessible in every way–experiencing it, creating it, talking about it. It's easy to get lost in photography and art in general, to develop these high-minded, lofty ideas about the "aboutness" of art.

The fact is: Blue Moon Camera's role in all this is so inconsequential. This is about You. It's always been about You, Your story, and the way You've walked through the world.

You lived by the ocean, learned the ebb and flow of the tides based on the smell of the air, the shape of the moon. You lived in the city, saw sharp metal soften the sun, kept Your window open just to hear the cars passing by. You lived in the desert and built small monuments to the heat, the sweat-slicked skin. You lived in a suburb, genuflected to fireworks in parking lots and glass bottles thrown into empty buildings.

You gave birth, welcomed someone new into this world and felt some new piece grow somewhere in your heartspace. You joked with Your friends, laughed so hard that You sprayed whiskey out of your nose. You shared Your favorite meal with someone special, dabbed a napkin at the drip of coffee at the corner of their mouth. You kissed until Your lips bruised.

You lived through the greatest heartaches. You imagined a whole life that only turned into a goodbye, a letter that You'll never send. You whispered prayers under Your breath, repeated pleasepleaseplease until it stopped meaning anything. Your family asked You, "What's wrong?", and You shook Your head, kept saying, "I don't know, I don't know...".

You used to believe in magic. Or: You still do believe in magic. You just don't realize it. It's there in every sunset, every mountain You climb, every late night text.

And You did the bravest thing of all: You lived through and shared your stories with the world.

It's never been about us. We just happen to have the privilege of knowing You, of seeing Your negatives and scans and prints. From the depths of our hearts, thank You for sharing, for trusting. Your story is more important than ours, and we'll keep listening as long as You want to tell it.