#tmax 100

Nikon FM2 - Kodak Tmax 100

fremont | tmax100

For various reasons mortality influenced a lot of the work I made in 2023, at times I planned shoots unrelated to just to give myself a break. But everything was leading up to this shoot. The concept of what gets left behind on earth was very present in my mind. I think the first element I knew I needed was the cholla skeleton, then I thought how interesting it would be to pair that with seashells from the Salish Sea, the tulle was a textural choice that was rooted in funeral veils. But those are just objects, @desertfreak and @silverwilddesign were the final piece to this project, they were more than what you see in the images, they were true collaborators helping build this entire concept.

Photography by Sheldon Buchler sheldonbuchler.com Select prints available in my shop! Contact me if you’d like a print that isn’t available

3 palms

Another place of childhood memories on Achill. Keem Strand, better known now than then as a pristine and sheltered beach, far out on the west, sheltered under a mountain on a finger of land that points out westward, towards the New World. A peat-laden stream from the tiny catchment area on a cwm on the sheltered side of Croaghaun flows strongly here, and re-sculpts the beach between every high tide... And then the day an American Tantrika friend sent me a photo of her performing asanas on this beach, not knowing that I’d been here many times since I was ten years old, and that she was in a space indelibly associated with my childhood. One of the many moments of synchronicity that brings me back to this place.

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