Tender photos of lovers embracing on the beach

Over coffee in Brooklyn, we chatted with Erica about shooting with discretion, glorious release at the water’s edge, and inventorying forms of affection.It was at Fort Tilden, Memorial Day weekend 2015. Truly, I just happened to look up from my towel and see the way these two were entwined. I was like,. I had an old 35 millimeter Canon camera; I took a photo and I was very nervous they were gonna see that I was doing that. But I got that little butterfly of excitement.

I know there are some photographers who ‘don’t look at other work.’ I very much studied a lot of street photographers. Gary Winogrand was a big one for me; I love Vivian Maier. They existed in those eras, and this exists now. I hope to pay homage, but those photographers covered every type of interaction at the beach — the other thing I noticed was: everyone went to Coney Island, and very few went to Rockaway. My approach is much more specific and intentional with what I was looking for.

But yes, I got closer to people. They very rarely noticed me because there were so enthralled in each other. Or asleep. I tried different things. I did have some little sneaky tricks I would do, if I really wanted to get the shot. Sometimes I would pretend to be on a phone call and snap a photo. It didn't look like I was out to go shoot photos. If they noticed me and froze up or looked hostile, I never pushed it. All respect to Bruce Gilden, but he’s aggressive.

Really, I was just always looking for affection. And then whoever it happened to be, that would come later in the edit. So it wasn’t, like,No, right. Certain sections of the beach are more friendly to certain types of community. There are parts where teenagers hang out, an LGBTQ+ region, a hipster part. Kind of both? Like Jacob Riis, if you go to a certain part of the beach, there are LGBTQ+ or rainbow flags, so it's very explicit.

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