Jake Heller

Photographs · at sea level

San Francisco

Home base between trips. Pastel houses, better neon than the city gets credit for, and the occasional skeleton commuting by power line. Mostly shot on a Ricoh GR III on evening walks, whenever the fog takes a night off.

The Avenues

A row of pastel pink and white San Francisco houses at sunset with a skeleton figure posed walking along the power line above
A cream-colored apartment building on a San Francisco corner lit by low golden-hour sun, crosswalk stripes in the foreground

Neon After Dark

Two institutions worth keeping: a record store that outlasted the algorithm, and a print shop that is also, correctly, a pinball arcade.

The red neon Amoeba Music sign glowing above the store entrance at night in San Francisco
The red neon sign of Free Gold Watch print shop and pinball arcade at night
Jake Heller grinning behind an enormous pizza on a metal tray at an outdoor table in the evening

Know A Good Spot?

Always taking recommendations for neon, pizza, and streets worth walking at golden hour.

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