Sunset Palm

Sunset Palm by Greg Curtis 9” x 13” Chromogenic Print on Fuji Super Type C paper  Two prints in an edition of ten each PH0119-1, PH0119-2 Browse the series below and use the above drop down menu to choose the variant you'd like to purchase. The image of a palm tree on a beach at sunset is a pervasive marker of leisure and tourism in coastal regions such as Southern California and beyond. Sunset Palm borrows its title from a mass produced poster one might find in an apartment or dorm room which Greg Curtis, with cinematographer Adam Michael Becker, re-photographed using light and lens flare effects in-camera. The resulting image retains the allure of the original, yet, by obscuring and partially obliterating the idealized image, inverts the viewers desire to settle at the foot of a palm tree on a beach at sunset. The informational text at the bottom of the original poster is restated in each image here as: "Sunset Palm PH0119-# © Greg Curtis 2013, Photogrpahy by Adam Michael Be