By Nikki Greene
The other day I had the pleasure of interviewing Book & Job Gallery’s Carson Lancaster on the roof of his TL apartment building on one of the nicest days SF has seen in awhile.
We met up at Book & Job located on Geary at Hyde and Carson took me through the gallery to talk about the largely DIY renovations (with the help of his brother and his friends) to what was once a Chinese acupuncturist’s office that had long since been abandoned. Smashing walls down, dropping a 150 lb radiator from the wall to the cement, rewiring all the electrical shit, and countless hours spent cleaning and painting all comes with the territory of reopening a Tenderloin-abandoned storefront.
Now the open space and white walls showcased SOUTHBANK, a collection of UK Photographer Dan Boulton‘s black and white darkroom prints of skaters in London’s Southbank.
We walked the two blocks to his “penthouse” to enjoy the unbelievably good weather from his rooftop. Although it is an amazing apartment, huge and bright and beautiful – it is still a twenty-something-year-old-guy’s TL apartment – which means it is aged, quirky and filled with empty beer cans. I find myself right at home and we sit and talk about how he got the idea to start Book & Job in the first place.
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