A few years back I started working on a coastal rephotographic project. The basic idea here is to use rephotographic methods and comparative historical photography as a way to explore and document the impacts of coastal erosion, sea level rise, and coastal adaptation in California. This idea draws inspiration primarily from Mark Klett’s 1977-1979 rephotographic survey project and the follow up ‘Third View’ project that included Byron Wolfe, Kyle Bajakian, Toshi Ueshina, and Michael Marshall. I’ll also be building upon similar local work up here on the Santa Cruz coast by Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross.

I started working on this project in early to mid 2019. Long story short, this project had to be put on the back burner until now. A few things came up, including the Covid-19 pandemic, that made it necessary to put the whole thing on hold.

So I’m getting back to it.