Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. The East Coast Surfing Championships (ECSC) hold an annual surfing contests and is one of the United States Surfing Federation’s major amateur events.
These photographs were made between 2007 - 2012 while Hughes was traveling and exhibiting work in the USA. Hughes read Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie as he explored the coastlines of Virginia and Florida. The resulting pictures concentrate on the mundane nature of the beach and intimate knowledge of how the waters edge might be experienced beyond that of a surfer or beach affecianado. Hughes' enduring interest in the interaction between place, objects and the seascape is also evident. His approach to the coast echoes his photographic approach to waste and plastic pollution.
Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Hughes met this man at Virgina beach, they both chatted about why they were there. It was a late October day and both were surprised how few visitors were in the city. He had travelled many hundreds of miles to see the sea, it was the first time he had ever seen the ocean.In 1839, Charlotte Bronte saw the sea for the first time at Bridlington, Yorkshire, before she arrived she wrote, ‘the idea of seeing the sea-of been near it-watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noon day, in calm-perhaps in storm, fills and satisfies my mind’.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, published 1857
Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Atlantic Ocean, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Fun Park, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Fun Park, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Fun Park, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Pacific Avenue Parking Lot, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Fun Park, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Motel, Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Ocean Eddies Diner, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Atlantic Avenue,Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Sunsations, Atlantic Avenue on the corner of 5th Avenue, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Dairy Queen, Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
Virginia Beach, a coastal city in southeastern Virginia, lies where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. A 3-mile boardwalk stretches along its beach-lined oceanfront. The bayside First Landing State Park marks the 1607 arrival of the Jamestown colonists from England.
Virginia Beach, USA, 2011
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