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Go West!
Go West!
Sarah M. Lee
October 5, 2016
The concept of equality is deeply ingrained in the US Constitution. The British photographer Sarah Lee found that equality on the beaches of California. Legally – and in front of Lee’s camera – everyone there is equal.
“At the beach there is the great leveller of people of every kind of America,” she says. “You’ll find all races and socio-economic classes united in their enjoyment of the simple, visceral pleasures of their leisure hours – walking with the sun on their skin, the sand beneath their feet. Things don’t matter at the beach – politics, race, the fact that this land used to be Mexico, the fact that people are swimming in their underwear. These are tender, human moments that unite not divide.”
See the full article in LFI 7/2016.
“At the beach there is the great leveller of people of every kind of America,” she says. “You’ll find all races and socio-economic classes united in their enjoyment of the simple, visceral pleasures of their leisure hours – walking with the sun on their skin, the sand beneath their feet. Things don’t matter at the beach – politics, race, the fact that this land used to be Mexico, the fact that people are swimming in their underwear. These are tender, human moments that unite not divide.”
See the full article in LFI 7/2016.
ALL IMAGES ON THIS PAGE: © Sarah M. Lee
Sarah M. Lee+-
Sarah studied English Literature at University College London (UCL) in the late 1990s and used the time not spent in libraries to train herself as a photographer.
She was offered a freelance position at the Guardian in 2000, and has continued to work for the Guardian and Observer ever since. Lee specialises in portraiture, features and the Arts but is interested in all photography that focuses on people, and our shared human experience.
She lives in London with her husband and their dog. More
