California

"Barbed wire is the star of one particular collection for one California man. Jesse S James has been collecting the spiky stuff since 1957 and has both catalogued and written a book about his specimens."

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A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

 

This series is entitled "Bi-Coastal" as it has to do with the locations of the photographs and locations that I call home. Having spent most of my childhood on the west coast and most of my adult life on the east, I find that I am drawn to the ocean time and time again. I saw a pattern in my photography that eluded to this, noticing that I kept taking the same photo on either coast. The ocean has always been a sanctuary for me, and to this subject I will be forever drawn.