The odds against a great photographer taking a job on a small-town daily newspaper into which he invests his entire artistic career are a million-to-one.  Hall Anderson took a job at the Ketchikan Daily News in 1984 and, to our great good fortune, he never left. 

For more than a quarter of a century, he has photographed Fourth of July parades, logging rodeos, elections, storms, heartbreakingly bright days, salmon derbies, and all the tragedies and joys of life from which we would have been excluded without the presence of his masterful eye and his camera.

To tens of thousands of people who have lived in Ketchikan - whether they passed through for a season of work or settled to make lives here - Hall Anderson’s photographs are as indelible as the events themselves.

                                                                                                    Brad Matsen and Ray Troll,

From their foreword to the book,

Still Rainin', Still Dreamin'.

                                                                                    Hall Anderson’s Ketchikan