Ongoing project
This visual essay looks to capture everyday life along California’s Central Coast – a place shaped as much by its natural beauty as by the people who live, work, and move through it. Beneath the surface, quiet tensions and contrasts unfold: labor and leisure, industry and environment, tradition and change. Through these fleeting, unscripted human stories – a more layered portrait of the region begins to emerge. Stretching from agricultural fields in the Salinas Valley to the fishing harbors of Moss Landing and the tourist-heavy boardwalk of Santa Cruz, this region is a convergence point for labor, leisure, tradition, and development.
The Central Coast has long balanced competing forces: working-class communities and recreational tourism, environmental conservation and industrial growth, cultural heritage and economic pressure. Its evolution is shaped not by a single narrative, but by continuous negotiations – between who the region is for, what it produces, and how it’s experienced. This evolving series captures those intersections – offering a record of a place in motion.
