Salton Sea Revisited
This work and others in this style are an aesthetic of photography that I pioneered in 2009-2010 as well as a new methodology of data vizualization that I defined in an IEEE paper called realtime lapse (2013).
To purchase individual prints, click on the image of your choice below and it’ll be added to your cart.
$100
10” x 6” chromogenic prints on premier lustre paper, signed and numbered on verso. Price includes postage.
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Deadline to order for the holidays is 4 December.︎
In addition to the individual timelapse images, a limited special edition of 11 of Salton Sea Revisited (the sliced collage) is available in 10” x 6” chromogenic print on Kodak metallic paper signed and numbered on verso (SOLD OUT). 52 of the timelapse photographs were used to create this image. This work has been published, exhibited, awarded, and is in private collections as well as the permanent collection of the Southern Utah Museum of Art. I developed this aesthetic of photography between 2008-2012, and no longer create work in this style as it has been extensively copied. $250 SOLD OUT
Also available in the sizes below. Message me if interested.
16” x 9”: Edition of 21, SOLD OUT
24” x 14”: Edition of 11, SOLD OUT
40” x 24”: Edition of 3, SOLD OUT
Inquire about 60”w.
For matte prints, see here.
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The videos and photographs that I’ve made around the Salton Sea since December 2008 will soon be from a landscape that has disappeared other than in memories and media artifacts. With the shoreline having significantly receded further since I’ve begun work there, all I have captured are already a record of a lost landscape.Unfortunately, the narrative of a toxic sea has won over the truth that a dry lakebed is more toxic than a living sea. If you’d like to read about it, Desert Sun has an excellent series.
The following timelapse photographs were taken from sunrise to sunset at the North Shore (scroll down ︎ or click). My particular interest in the North Shore is that the view directly to the south creates the illusion of an endless body of water in the desert and layers upon layers of birds are seen in the near and far distance. Where I worked alternated between a fishing spot, a kissing spot, a garbage dump, and a tranquil bird-watching stop along the winter route of birders. Since my first visit in 2008, the amount of birds has significantly decreased as the salinity of the sea has increased.
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These images have a place in history:
77 California state parks were slated for closure on 1 July 2012 due to the State being bankrupt. The Salton Sea State Recreation Area was on that list. I printed hundreds of my timelapse photos from 2009 to 2012 on postcards and during the third week of June, with 107º highs in the day and 90º at night, I set out on a mission to save the park. I camped at the State Park, spending the days walking and driving around the local communities, businesses, farms, schools, and churches to collect memories and signatures on the back of the postcards. At the end of every day, I’d take a stack to the post office in Mecca and mail them to Governor Brown’s attention. By the end of the week his office was flooded with hundreds of personal stories and photographs about the sea and the park and how important it has been for the livelihood of the surrounding communities. Needless to say, the Salton Sea State Recreation Area is still open and maintained.
Salton Sea Revisted Available in matte
Books
Individual prints from the books are available.
Chromogenic print
12” x 20”, Edition of 100 per landscape, $280
6” x 10”, Edition of 500 per landscape, $100
Message me if interested.
(Click on images below to view as a gallery with navigation.)
Chromogenic print
12” x 20”, Edition of 100 per landscape, $280
6” x 10”, Edition of 500 per landscape, $100
Message me if interested.
(Click on images below to view as a gallery with navigation.)
Landscape Techne Volume Two
California 2016-2018
Softcover $60 ︎
6” x 9”, 146 pages.
Limited edition of 100. Signed and numbered.
A selection of 68 photographs of landscapes that I’ve researched for my next experimental film, Tumbling at the speed of rotation (2022). It will be the second film in a series of three beginning with Driving at the speed of the Nordic sun (2015).
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Landscape Techne Volume Three
Iceland 2016-2019
Softcover $60 ︎
6” x 9”, 146 pages.
Limited edition of 100. Signed and numbered.
A selection of 68 photographs of landscapes researched for my third and last experimental film in the series, Shifted.
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Editioned Prints
Salton Sea Storm, 20 January 2010
This seminal photograph is the first image of its kind defining a new aesthetic in photography I named time slice and a new methodology for environmental data visualization, which I named real-time lapse. (IEEE 2013)Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
Chromogenic print on matte paper
40” x 27” Edition of 10
24” x 16” Edition of 50
16” x 10” Edition of 100
NEW PRINT RELEASE
Harper Lake Remediated
21 December 2012Never before released time slice of the Harper Lake Marsh, the largest dry lake in the Mojave Desert.
Like the Salton Sea, this area is affected by agricultural and industrial water demands. In the years I've been visiting and making video and photographic work here, I've seen the marsh disappear and reappear, a solar farm get built, and an aircraft crash.
For history buffs, Harper Lake is the site of Howard Hughes' secret airfield where the Hughes D-2 fighter-bomber was built and tested. In older satellite images of the dry lake, before the solar farm was built, a faint airstrip was visible on the western side.
Individual frames of the slices are available.
Harper Lake Remediated
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
Chromogenic print on matte paper
40” x 27” Edition of 10
24” x 16” Edition of 50
16” x 10” Edition of 100
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Malibu Revisioned, 12 December 2012
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3 (2 available)
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
Malibu Revisioned, Morning
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3 (2 available)
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
Now
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3 SOLD OUT
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
In the permanent collection of the Southern Utah Museum of Art.
10 minutes from Now
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3 SOLD OUT
24” x 16” Edition of 11
16” x 10” Edition of 21
In the permanent collection of the Southern Utah Museum of Art.
Salton Sea Revisited
Chromogenic print on matte paper
40” x 27” Edition of 10
24” x 16” Edition of 50
16” x 10” Edition of 100
Premium inkjet print on metallic paper
40” x 27” Edition of 3 SOLD OUT
24” x 16” Edition of 11 (4 available)
16” x 10” Edition of 21 SOLD OUT
In the permanent collection of the Southern Utah Museum of Art.
Glow of the Glacier (Vatnajökull)—Nyctochrome
Chromogenic print on matte paper
48” x 27” Edition of 3
24” x 14” Edition of 11
16” x 9” Edition of 21
Similar to the California Landscape book, below images from Iceland will be available in 2020 in book format along with 50+ other images. These are limited edition pigment prints on Hahnemuhle matte ultrasmooth paper.
