LAST SEACOAST
the photography and journalism blog of Ariel Swartley
The Fabric of Memory
October 16, 2024
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So many threads go into making a book. The Fabric of Memory started in 2020 during the isolation of lockdown but where exactly? When I found myself dreaming most nights of women who I used to know? When the names Ida and Iris came to me out of the blue and with them the idea of the changing shape of friendships over time? With the keep-myself-busy...
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Waterborne
August 03, 2023
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Thirty-five years in Los Angeles and at last I have access to a swimming pool. I get it now. The limpid David Hockney paintings.Our communal reverence for the color turquoise. The pool guy jokes though mine is a community pool; I don"t actually know who cleans it. Not since childhood have I been so eagerly waterborne. I like that word, both its lon...
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Up in the Air
August 13, 2020
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I like to take pictures when I fly. I like trying to match the wrinkles I see from the sky with the horizons I know from below.
The images in the series LAST FLIGHT HOME began on a transatlantic flight in late November, 2019. My seat was in an alcove by an exit door, the flight was smooth, and the attendant didn’t mind me shooting out the door’s w...
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The mountain project, or where I've been keeping my sanity
October 02, 2019
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Simple notion: Post a photograph of a mountain every day for a full year. Call it #everydaysamountain. Because, in late 2018, every day was beginning to seem like something to get over. You probably know what I’m talking about. The news was full of suffering, and people being prodded or mocked by those whose job used to be to watch out for them....
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A Season in Point Russe: a #photografic novel
June 26, 2018
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A Season in Point Russe is a #photograficnovel. I made up the word. For several years I have been trying to tell stories using both text and images. I could say that I like exploring different ways we connect information dots (In a line, like dominoes?). How we understand a narrative. But really, I’m trying to pull you into another world.
You cann...
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