Four WintersIn the middle of a December night a few years ago I was woken by the phone ringing downstairs. Nothing ever good comes of such a call and this time it was news that my younger brother had been admitted to hospital, and the doctor caring for him had rung to say he thought it unlikely he would live through the night. I drove to see him and sat with him through the early hours, in the eerie quiet of the emergency ward, until late in the morning when it

a towering mushroom

Rearick works slowly

Gary Haller

and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant

Johannes never looks down on these workers

and others

when he was known as “The Polaroid Kidd

found forms

what I wanted to do on this project was examine those preconceptions (at least as I conjured them) through the descriptive power of photography in order to pin down what two semi-myths - the world of surfers and the life of southern California beaches –‘really’ looked like

contextualizing her inimitable oeuvre

Working solo

color negative film offering a wide exposure latitude for greater versatility