Surf Land By Joni Sternbach
You can forget the basic image of surfing under a heavy sun and a beach of soft sand. The photographer Joni Sternbach heads down to Long Island, where New Yorkers and eastern people goes to surf in a place ravaged by the sea and that seems abandonned.
With an antique 8×10 camera, tripod, umbrella, folding table, portable dark box, and a cooler full of chemicals, the artist creates his tintype portraits . Passionate by desertic landscapes and the sea, the photographer found the perfect spot in Montauk’s ditch plains. It looks like the time has been freezed, that those pictures could have been taken 50 years ago as they can have been taken yesterday.
