Capturing Colfax

When Baltimore native Taj Moore moved from San Francisco to Denver two years ago, he immediately began searching for an area that felt like the Mission District. Oddly, no one he asked mentioned East Colfax. “I’d hear people bag on it and say, ‘Parts of it are dirty,’” explains Moore, who went on to found www.colfaxlove.com. “But that’s why it’s so lovely. It wouldn’t be the same if it were sanitary. And there’s a lot of activity happening; I want people to see it.”

Now in its third incarnation, Moore’s Denver Colfax Photosafari encourages Coloradans to see Colfax through the eyes of adventurous photographers. The event -- think bar crawl with cameras -- begins at noon today at Atomic Cowboy, 3237 East Colfax Avenue, and finishes more than seven hours and 25 city blocks later with a meet-up and “pass-the-camera” photo-sharing session at the Cheeky Monk, 534 East Colfax. “We have professionals…all the way down to amateurs who barely know which end of the camera to look through,” says Moore. “You don’t have to go to the African savanna to find a rich environment worth photographing.” When all is said and done, the images from this year’s Photosafari will be displayed in a group show at Neopolitan Gallery, 3107 East Colfax. Get more information at www.colfaxlove.com or by calling 303-999-7070.
Sat., May 9, 2009