Nick Hartley's
apartment
2278
South Patterson avenue, apt. 10, Santa Barbara
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The
photographer Nick Hartley lives in a small apartment in Santa Barbara, like a
kind of bachelor's pad. This is reflected both in the decoration without any
real style as in the mess that often prevails.
A
small lobby furnished with a simple table provides an access to the main room,
separated by a counter. On a table in the hall, Nick keeps a rare piece of his
past : a photo of a military friend with whom he made the Vietnam War.
The
main room is at the same time a bedroom and a living room. Probably located
under the roof, the apartment is full of beams, which give some character to the
place, but which are most often used to Nick for drying prints of his
photographs but also for drying his clothes ! The apartment is richly colored :
purple walls, mauve beams. Some amazingly traditionally feminine colors. At
last, a few exhibition posters adorn the walls. Opposite the bed, a small blue
sofa and a round table finish the decoration. This corner of the room is mostly
occupied by cameras and lenses.
At
the bottoms of the main room, we reach a small kitchen, lit by a stained glass
window.
Essential
in his job as a freelance photographer, Nick has his own darkroom, which is
located facing the kitchen. He develops there his photos, like those he made of
Kelly Capwell in a park at the occasion of their first meeting.
