These photographs were made during summers spent with friends at beaches, rivers, and swimming holes in the early 1980s. I was photographing the people around me almost instinctively—friends swimming, smoking, sunbathing, playing, and simply passing the time together.
Looking back, the photographs hold something I could not have fully understood then: the freedom and physical ease of youth, and the intimacy that comes from photographing people with whom there is little distance between life and the camera.
They are pictures of friendship, bodies, summer, and that fleeting period of youth before careers, marriage, children, and adult life began to shape who we would become.swimming, smoking, sunbathing, playing, and simply passing the time together.
Looking back, the photographs hold something I could not have fully understood then: the freedom and physical ease of youth, and the intimacy that comes from photographing people with whom there is little distance between life and the camera. They are pictures of friendship, bodies, summer, and a particular moment in our lives before we knew how quickly it would pass.
Looking back, the photographs hold something I could not have fully understood then: the freedom and physical ease of youth, and the intimacy that comes from photographing people with whom there is little distance between life and the camera.
They are pictures of friendship, bodies, summer, and that fleeting period of youth before careers, marriage, children, and adult life began to shape who we would become.swimming, smoking, sunbathing, playing, and simply passing the time together.
Looking back, the photographs hold something I could not have fully understood then: the freedom and physical ease of youth, and the intimacy that comes from photographing people with whom there is little distance between life and the camera. They are pictures of friendship, bodies, summer, and a particular moment in our lives before we knew how quickly it would pass.
