Far Away From The Place Where You Are

by David egan

This work is a response to my own personal anxieties and desires to be alone. It is about a search and struggle to find a safe space. It is about home, it is about my love of nature and want to be in it, it is about connecting to something, it is about loss, it is about repetition, it is calm, it is about life and death, it is about a destination.

Over time I have come to realize that the area that I have chosen to return to and photograph represents those feelings for not just me but many people. All of the photographs from this series were made in and around the Salton Sea, in Southern California. Once a bustling vacation destination of the 1960’s and 1970’s, it has slowly become a place that is struggling to survive. The sea itself is evaporating and filled with dead fish and birds. There is a smell in the air. There are unruly people that want to be left alone. There are homes and structures that have been abandoned. It is occupied by a lot of people looking to avoid societal norms as well as those who just can’t afford to live anywhere else. It is one of the hottest places in the country. It is an unstable desert landscape. It is beautiful.

Bio

David Egan is an American photographer raised in the Washington metropolitan area now residing in Los Angeles, California. He creates long-term bodies of work focusing on the changing American landscape. Egan is primarily known for his large format long exposure color night landscape work in the state of Nevada. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

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