Still Here: The Edge of the Dream

Bombay Beach is often photographed as the end of something.

Once imagined as a resort town on the shores of the Salton Sea, it has become known for abandoned buildings, empty lots and stories of decline. Those things are here, but they are only part of the picture.

People still live here. They paint. They build. They repair. They leave traces of themselves in unexpected ways.

Still Here: The Edge of the Dream is less interested in what Bombay Beach lost than in what remains. The photographs move between ordinary homes, handmade landmarks, roadside signs and works of art that sit comfortably beside rusting vehicles and fading architecture.

Rather than presenting the town as a relic, the project explores it as a place caught between memory and reinvention. A place that continues to resist disappearing.

A roadside billboard advertising Bombay Beach with logos for ski inn, Bombay Beach Market, and bar & grill, set in a desert landscape under a blue sky with a single cloud.
A sign reading 'Welcome to America's Lithium Low Point' in a barren desert landscape with mountains in the distance, clear blue sky, and utility poles.
A small pastel green house with a windmill on top, situated on an arid lot with a clear blue sky in the background.
Sign that says 'Bombay Beach Estates' with painted palm trees, birds, and silhouettes of people, central to a graffiti-covered building in the background.
Seaside Church building with a white exterior and blue accents, a small tower with a cross on top, and a clear blue sky in the background.
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An old, rusty pickup truck with an open hood and no front wheels, sitting on a colorful gravel lot. In the background, there's a vintage trailer with a painted figure and a sign that says 'All You Can Eat.' The scene is set in a desert landscape with
A painted brick with a large number nine and a handwritten message on top, on a dirt surface.
Outdoor art installation featuring multiple vintage televisions painted with abstract and colorful designs, arranged on shelves and on the ground under a clear blue sky.
An old, graffiti-covered wooden structure with a sign that says 'Save Me' on a rooftop. The building appears abandoned, with peeling paint, graffiti art, and a clear blue sky in the background.
A vintage sign with fluorescent bulbs advertising 'Bombay Beach Drive-In', positioned over a lot of abandoned, rusted cars with a desert landscape and clear sky in the background.
Old bumper cars with winged insect graphic, yellow seats in front of a mobile trailer on dirt ground, with miscellaneous junk and a chain-link fence in the background.
A tall metal tower with antennas and circular structures stands on a dirt mound in a desert landscape under a clear blue sky.
A large metal sculpture resembling a helicopter, made from various scrap metal pieces, is mounted on a platform in front of a white building labeled 'Community Cafe' in a small yard with a chain-link fence, cacti, and bikes nearby.
A sculpture of a woman holding a large vase on her head with a shiny disco ball orb balanced above it, set against a wide, empty beach under a blue sky.

Part of an ongoing exploration of Americana, memory, and the quiet persistence of places on the edge of disappearance.