The Camera Club of New York

Today, among my generation, there is a resurgence of the back-to-the-land ideologies, of running organic farms – together, sharing homes – together, creating music and art and life – together. Recognizing this socially and politically significant movement is what initially led me to explore Bolinas, a small, unincorporated community along the coast of California. Dirt roads with hand-painted signs create the paths between the homes of a notoriously reclusive population, one with a rich cultural and agricultural history which culminated in the late 1960s after the summer of love. Straddling the past and the present, as well as two geographic plates, Bolinas boasts a lush terrain and a lush way of life.

In this series of photographs, I delve into the cohesive intricacy and complexity of relationships that exist in Bolinas, the sense of interconnectedness which permeates the atmosphere, the invisible web that binds moments together. The images are meant to reflect the nature of the place and so each is a piece of the whole, just in the way in which every person has individually come together to collectively combine to create a community. With the work I intend to raise questions such as why are people drive to go off-the-grid and create an alternative path in life? How do we take responsibility for the earth that we take from and how do we give back to it? What makes a place a ‘home’ and how do we even define what home means?

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