Michael Ernest Sweet – Coney Island: A Beach At The End Of Time | LensCulture

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Coney Island: A Beach At The End Of Time – Photographs and text by Michael Ernest Sweet | LensCulture

Photographing this famed urban beach using grainy, high-contrast monochrome

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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.