LAST SEACOAST
the photography and journalism blog of Ariel Swartley
Red States
March 22, 2017
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A playful series on serious topics. Any resemblance to current politics is wholly intentional.
RED STATES began with my reading of Josef Albers’ book, Interaction of Color, which demonstrates that the so-called evidence of our senses is often no evidence at all.
#1 How Do I Know (This Tulip Is Red?)
“Color,” says Albers, who chaired the...
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Can't Happen Here
August 05, 2016
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Can't happen here.
We are watchful, drained, gated, and secured.
If it does happen, (but it won't),
we have options.
Escape is possible.
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I Make Mistakes
May 25, 2016
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Printing my first show as a fledgling photographer, a series called The Path at Noon, I loaded the paper wrong side front. Ugh. Ink lays on the uncoated side of expensive photo paper like a grubby oil slick. It can take months to dry and smudges everything.
All photographs from Path Taken in Error. The new series (2015-2016)
#1 The First Mistak...
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Dry Times
November 10, 2015
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Greetings from the Land of Little Rain. Death Valley had a flood last month. California's farmland is still dry.
ABOUT the Series: Words and Pictures
I nspired by California's farming history and current drought, LAND OF LITTLE RAIN is a series of six manipulated photographs that blend image and text. The title comes from Mary Austin's The Land o...
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Our Part of Town
July 07, 2015
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Our part of town: Whiskey Flats to Point Fermin, a mile-long stretch of San Pedro, at the southernmost edge of L.A. It's a neighborhood of hills and fog, bordered on three sides by ocean. Geologists say it used to be an island. Still feels like one. Many of the houses date to the early 1900s though there have been some modifications along the way....
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