Published by RITA
First edition of 125
Perfect bound soft cover
8 x 10 inches
92 pages
88 color photographs

"…he sometimes sat here for hours, laying out these photographs or others from his collection the wrong way up, as if playing a game of patience, and that then, one by one, he turned them over, always with a new sense of surprise at what he saw, pushing the pictures back and forth and over each other, arranging them in an order depending on their family resemblances, or withdrawing them from the game until either there was nothing left but the gray tabletop, or he felt exhausted by the constant effort of thinking and remembering and had to rest on the ottoman."

— W. G. Sebald

Published by RITA
First edition of 50
Smyth sewn soft cover
8.7 x 10.7 inches
100 pages
47 black and white photographs

These places are built on marshlands and surrounded by water.

This thought has persistently confronted me throughout my years of walking and photographing the coastlines of Jamaica Bay and Staten Island. They are on a slow, seemingly unseeable, course toward becoming uninhabitable places. The overwhelming destruction of Hurricane Sandy is still evident nearly ten years later, but it is the never-satiated tide that, day after day, erodes the coast. Local governments have implemented various mitigation strategies—sand bag barriers, elevated houses, redesigned drainage systems, and even trucked-in sand to renourish coasts. Some neighborhoods have been bought back by the city at pre-Hurricane Sandy prices, leaving nothing but spray painted lot numbers and severed connections to the grid that sway in the wind.

A wall of any size can be built with enough resources and technology, a fact that is disturbingly apparent as one walks through the different coastal neighborhoods of New York City. Capital protects capital.

I only hope that our inevitable retreat from these coasts is dignified and equitable.