About this Event
Moderating the conversation is photographer Roberta Bayley. This event will be hosted on the 6th Floor of the Strand Building at 826 Broadway.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.
ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Oct. 23 to request.
Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.
For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact [email protected]
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Since Forever
Photographs and Text by Jeff Ament
For decades, Pearl Jam founding member and bassist Jeff Ament has photographed the people, places, and moments that inspire him. A few years ago he began working through his archive with his brother, acclaimed designer Barry Ament. Their efforts led to Since Forever, a deeply personal visual journal of creativity, friendship, and life on the road. This 9" x 12" hardcover volume features more than 250 black-and-white photographs, accompanied by wry insights, observations, and personal reflections from Ament.
Drawn largely from previously unreleased images, the collection offers a rare and intimate look at the formative years of Pearl Jam as they evolved from a small group of friends into one of the most influential bands of their generation. From backstage and in the studio to the countless miles between stages, Ament's photographs capture candid moments of creativity, camaraderie, and the enduring relationships that helped sustain the band through its meteoric rise.
At once a visual memoir, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle, the book reveals how relationships, travel, joy, and need contribute to the creative process. Since Forever reveals Ament's unique perspective as both participant and observer of a defining time period in music and American culture.
Features:
- More than 250 black-and-white photographs
- Many never-before-seen images
- Personal reflections by Jeff Ament
- An intimate portrait of Pearl Jam's early years
- 9" x 12" hardcover edition
Photo credit: Danny Clinch
Jeff Ament is the bass guitarist and a founding member of Pearl Jam. Inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 with Pearl Jam, Ament was a leader in Seattle’s music scene in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, contributing to a generation of artists whose socially conscious songwriting transformed popular culture.
Ament has also been a member of bands Deranged Diction, Green River, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, War Babies, Three Fish, Tres Mts., RNDM, P.E.S.T, and Deaf Charlie. His solo releases include Tone (2008), While My Heart Beats (2012), Heaven/Hell (2018), American Death Squad (2020), and I Should Be Outside (2021). In 2022, he composed the score for FX's Under the Banner of Heaven, and just released a soundtrack for the doc Montana Grind. Ament has also earned two GRAMMY Awards for Best Recording Package, recognizing his work as a visual artist and designer.
Born in Havre, Montana, in 1963 and raised in nearby Big Sandy, Ament was an art major at the University of Montana before moving to Seattle in 1983. A lifelong skateboarder, he founded Montana Pool Service in 1992, initially helping restore skateparks in Seattle before turning his focus to his home state.
Since then, Ament has been a primary funder and organizer in building more than forty world class skateparks across Montana and the American West, many on Native American reservations. His nonprofit works to create safe, welcoming spaces where young people can skate, build community, express themselves, and develop confidence in some of the most isolated areas of our country.
Barry Ament is the co-founder of Ames Bros, the Seattle design studio he launched with partner Coby Schultz in 1994. For more than three decades, Ames Bros has produced distinctive work for clients including Pearl Jam, Nike, TOPPS, the Seattle Seahawks, Pagliacci Pizza, and many others.
Barry began working as Pearl Jam's in-house designer in the early 1990s, creating everything from album packaging and concert posters to T-shirts and tube socks. Since then, Ames Bros has illustrated more than 500 concert posters for Pearl Jam and other artists.
Barry's collaboration with his brother, Jeff, goes back to childhood—drawing together, building skate ramps, and later mailing artwork back and forth after Jeff split for Seattle. Those early exchanges grew into decades of collaboration, and they're still finding new reasons to make stuff together.
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