Christmas Eve in Southern California is a specific kind of cognitive dissonance.
The light is warm and flat. The Pacific is doing what the Pacific always does — indifferent, wide, quietly moving. A surfer is out. Palm trees frame the horizon the way they have been doing since before anyone photographed them. The whole scene has a muted, unhurried quality that belongs to no particular season and somehow to all of them.
SoCal Christmas was made at San Clemente on 24 December 2018 — a beach town between Los Angeles and San Diego that carries a particular California archetype: low-key, sun-worn, unconcerned with being discovered. The image holds that character. There is nothing dramatic in the frame. Just the coast doing its coastal thing, with soft winter light and an atmosphere of unforced ease.
Printed on Platine Fibre Rag — a paper that achieves remarkable vibrancy in muted tones, making pale skies and warm sand more present rather than washed out — the image has a luminosity that reads differently from across the room than it does up close.
For rooms that want light. For walls that want coast without the cliché.
Paper: Platine Fibre Rag — premium photographic fine art paper with exceptional tonal range and luminosity in muted palettes
Available sizes: A2, A3
Frame options: Print only · Black frame · Espresso frame
Origin: San Clemente, Southern California, USA. 24 December 2018.
Printed: Melbourne, Australia
Shipping details: We work with a network of independent printers and framers in Melbourne to fulfil orders. Delivery time varies between 10-25 days for anywhere in Australia.
15% profits are donated to The Smith Family to help support education costs of financially disadvantaged children in Australia
*The mockup image of the photo on display in either library are for reference only and may not be to scale
Christmas Eve in Southern California is a specific kind of cognitive dissonance.
The light is warm and flat. The Pacific is doing what the Pacific always does — indifferent, wide, quietly moving. A surfer is out. Palm trees frame the horizon the way they have been doing since before anyone photographed them. The whole scene has a muted, unhurried quality that belongs to no particular season and somehow to all of them.
SoCal Christmas was made at San Clemente on 24 December 2018 — a beach town between Los Angeles and San Diego that carries a particular California archetype: low-key, sun-worn, unconcerned with being discovered. The image holds that character. There is nothing dramatic in the frame. Just the coast doing its coastal thing, with soft winter light and an atmosphere of unforced ease.
Printed on Platine Fibre Rag — a paper that achieves remarkable vibrancy in muted tones, making pale skies and warm sand more present rather than washed out — the image has a luminosity that reads differently from across the room than it does up close.
For rooms that want light. For walls that want coast without the cliché.
Paper: Platine Fibre Rag — premium photographic fine art paper with exceptional tonal range and luminosity in muted palettes
Available sizes: A2, A3
Frame options: Print only · Black frame · Espresso frame
Origin: San Clemente, Southern California, USA. 24 December 2018.
Printed: Melbourne, Australia
Shipping details: We work with a network of independent printers and framers in Melbourne to fulfil orders. Delivery time varies between 10-25 days for anywhere in Australia.
15% profits are donated to The Smith Family to help support education costs of financially disadvantaged children in Australia
*The mockup image of the photo on display in either library are for reference only and may not be to scale