Sand Storm by Chelsea Brewer

Strange but true, I've managed to pick another photographer, this time Chelsea Brewer, who is working out of California. Maybe it's MOMA's Into the Sunset exhibition that has me subconsciously gravitating towards these photographs?

I was consciously drawn to this work, not because their left-coast-ness was clear, but at first glance, the image above reminded me of Michael Corridore's Aperture Portfolio Prize winning series Angry Black Snake. Corridore's photographs document that very specific moment of euphoria in spectator events when the climax has occurred and the crowd, covered in dust, ash or smoke, physically become part of the spectacle. In Brewer's above photo, the subjects are not watchers or participants, they are instead subject only to the wills of nature and the sand and sun and wind around them. It is these elements that unite her subjects throughout the series: as Corridore's portraits are as much of people as they are of sport, Brewer's photos are as much of people as they are of a place.

See more of Brewer's new work on her website website.