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Photographing this famed urban beach using grainy, high-contrast monochrome
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/michael-ernest-sweet-coney-island-a-beach-at-the-end-of-time
My series “Coney Island: A Beach At The End Of Time” explores the famed New York urban beach in gritty, grainy, high-contrast monochrome. The choice to work in this rough black and white style was deliberate—I wanted to covey the idea of the resort as a theme park at the end of its glory; the end of its time.