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Andria Lo

Our Nov/Dec San Francisco cover story focused in on local characters and their favourite neighbourhoods. Resident photographer Andria Lo dutifully tracked down these subjects and came back with sensational portraits, including this one of activist and drag artist Nick Large (posing as his alter ego Kirsti Yummykochi) in the historic Castro neighbourhood. Read the article.

Ryan Guillou of the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

Although Cicely lives outside the city these days, she’ll never truly leave the Haight — because, as she puts it, the Haight changed her life.

Colourful Victorian-era houses in Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood.

The larger-than-life owner of Decades of Fashion, Cicely Hansen, may have worked with Dolce & Gabbana, Dior and Lanvin, but she’s usually to be found behind the till, surrounded by thousands of items of clothing.

Jazz musician and native San Franciscan Sam Peoples Jr outside the Boom Boom Room in the Fillmore District.

A server at Lookout, a nightclub where every second Thursday of the month, the Rice Rockettes perform — an Asian drag troupe.

Bon, Nene, pictured, serves Japanese cuisine with a French twist in the Mission.

The murals of Balmy Alley, in San Francisco's Mission district.

Artist Susan Cervantes, muralist and founder of the Precita Eyes collective.