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FritzPhoto is Portland’s Top-Rated Local Photographer!

April 16, 2019

We are excited to announce that Top-Rated Local has awarded us their top Portland photographer award for 2018! They recently interviewed us for the award, and here’s what they had to say about FritzPhoto: From wedding and portrait photography to commercial and editorial photography, Fritz Photo is the photographer to turn to in Portland for all of your needs. Fritz Photo…

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Our Scars Don’t Define Us

July 27, 2017

Many of you know that I spent about 10 years working on a series called Skeleton in the Closet, telling the stories of people with eating disorders. I also spent another several years working on Astra Velum, exploring how women often feel that their freckles are flaws. I wanted to show them as something beautiful. So it seemed a natural…

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Documentary Photography - Mexico - Travel Photography

Love In Action

January 17, 2012

Doesn’t that lady have one of the best smiles in the entire world? That’s my wife. Some of my favorite work involves photographing children in orphanages. These kids have had rougher lives by age 4 than most of us have in a lifetime. So having a day or a week to play with, talk with, encourage, and photograph them is…

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Documentary Photography - Editorial Photography - Sex Trafficking - Thailand - Travel Photography

Working the Streets in Bangkok

December 15, 2008

It’s challenging to travel and work, and post to a blog at the same time. It’s challenging enough to find time to edit. I’ve been in Bangkok for 4 days. Never have I seen a city quite like this. Over 12 million people, in a sprawling metropolis right out of Bladerunner. I’ve walked through hovels and massive malls, taken tuk-tuks…

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Cambodia - Documentary Photography - Editorial Photography - Sex Trafficking - Travel Photography

Pimps, Prostitutes, and Drug Dealers

December 11, 2008

Seth and I were talking over dinner about how we could tell people about what we’ve been doing, and at the same time give them entirely the wrong impression. And yet these stories are worth telling, because they are integral parts of this trip. Last night we stood on a street corner talking with a drug dealer. Our tuk-tuk driver…

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Cambodia - Documentary Photography - Editorial Photography - Travel Photography

At work in Phnom Penh

December 8, 2008

My posts so far have been mostly non-work related. But we have been working. Some of what we are doing involves confidentiality, so the images I can post are limited. I’ve spent the last few days with a transitional home for girls who have been rescued from child sex slavery. They range in age from 14-19. Three of them have…

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Tuol Sleng

December 5, 2008

Seth decided we needed to see The Killing Fields, and Tuol Sleng Prison. He was right: if we’re going to know Cambodia, you can’t skip the atrocity. The nation’s psyche has been formed by 30 years of it. It plays right into some of the causes of child sex slavery and human trafficking. We spent a couple hours at Tuol…

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Transitions, Asia, and Sex Traffic

November 12, 2008

I’m preparing at the moment for an upcoming trip to Thailand and Cambodia. I’ll be shooting photo and video for several organizations that work to end child sex slavery and human trafficking both locally and abroad. One of these organizations, Transitions Global (also known as Transitions Cambodia), is in the Willamette Week paper this week. (The photo of James Pond…

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Alberta Street Faces and Fashion

August 29, 2008

This month’s installment of Faces and Fashion on Alberta, coming to you live from the evening of the Democratic Convention. A few TVs on the street and lots of people crowding into bars during Obama’s speech. Which is why this first image is so appropriate: And this one also, of Christophe. “I felt like exercizing my freedom of expression tonight.”…

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Alberta Street

August 1, 2008

A couple of photographer buddies, Steve and Evrim and I, went out street shooting on Alberta’s Last Thursday. Here are a few images. All photographs and content is Copyright Fritz Liedtke. Please do not copy or re-use them. To do so is a violation of federal copyright law, and will be prosecuted.

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Young Life’s Wildhorse Canyon Camp II

July 30, 2008

A few more images from Young Life’s Wildhorse Canyon. These kids have so much fun. Young Life knows how to do camp. I spent every summer at week-long camps from probably fifth grade through high school (as did my wife), and they are some of my best memories. Kids here often say it’s the best week of their lives. Many…

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Documentary Photography - Editorial Photography - Fine Art Photography - Morocco - Travel Photography

First Communion Processional, Algeciras, Spain

May 25, 2008

I’m in Algeciras, at the southern tip of Spain, right across the bay from the rock of Gibraltar, and across the Mediterranean from Morocco. For a few days, I’m photographing an intercultural arts exchange here, and it already feels like I’ve been with these people more than the 24 hours I’ve been here. At one point, while photographing, one of…

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