Series one · 2018–2022 · Back to index
Bora
Four winters on the karst and the shore below it, photographing what a gale leaves behind.
The series
What the wind leaves behind
The bora is a fall wind: cold air spilling off the plateau, gusting to 150 kilometres an hour, closing roads and emptying the waterfront in an afternoon. It prunes every tree on the karst into the same leaning shorthand.
I photographed it the way you photograph anything that will not sit still — by returning. The same pavement in November fog and January glare. The same stretch of sea going from glass to white horses in twenty minutes. Thirty-six plates survived the winters; the rest are in a box marked with the year and the weather.
Selected plates · 6 of 36
Method
Film, tripod, weather radio
Every plate was made on large-format film with a tripod heavy enough to stand up in the gusts. Exposures were short and the failures were many — the wind finds every loose rail and tired shutter.
Prints from the series are made by hand on cotton rag in the studio darkroom. Three plates are available as exhibition prints in the shop; the full set of thirty-six travels as a framed exhibition — write for the loan list and the checklist.
Next · Series two, in progress
The Salt Road
Working salt pans from the Slovenian coast to North Africa, and the families who tend them.
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