For the past few years, The Seattle Art Fair and Out Of Sight have been bringing a mix of blue-chip art and challenging creative brilliance to a town too commonly associated with fog and technology.

The Seattle Art Fair, founded by Paul Allen in 2015, is a usual hit-or-miss collection of international modern and contemporary art galleries, not unlike Pulse, or Art Basel.  More radical in its approach, Out Of Sight, feels less like an art fair (while work is for sale), and more like a Northwest on-ramp to the Whitney Biennial, with a rotating roster of curators, this year including S. Surface, Greg Lundgren, Justen Waterhouse and Benedict Heywood, as well as exhibition caretaker Scott Lawrimore. 

We waded through it all and have gathered some of our favorite photography-based highlights. The Seattle Art Fair will be on view through Sunday, August 6th, and Out Of Sight will be on view through August 27th.