Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 3月21日 03時01分

Here is the second gallery of photographs which participants took during my previous workshops along California’s Salton Sea.

After a one-year break I am resuming to teach the 6-day documentary photography workshop titled ‘The Art of Storytelling’. An official event of MOPLA (Month of Photography LA), it will take place in Los Angeles and on location along the Salton Sea from April 15 to April 21. To learn more about the workshop, follow the link in my IG biography.

The Salton Sea is an all-American Story about an ecosystem gone haywire. A victim of geography and hard-ball politics, the Salton Sea is California’s largest, most troubled lake. It lies 227 feet below sea level.

With low levels of rainfall and only few inlets, it depends on the Imperial Valley’s agricultural run-offs for its survival. The run-offs, however, are filled with nutrients from the fields, creating algae blooms that reduce the sea’s oxygen and kill much of its fish population. In the 1990’s this oxygen depletion created massive tilapia die-offs. Now another concern is looming. Already 25% saltier than the Pacific Ocean, the salinity in the Salton Sea is expected to constantly increase, potentially killing all of its life and turning it into a biologically dead sea.

Abandoned, salt-encrusted structures on the Salton Sea shore; bubbling mud pots and small mud volcanoes; dying palm tree assembles; America’s lowest community Bombay Beach (223 feet under sea level and  one of California’s poorest); the visionary Salvation Mountain, an artwork hill painted by the late artist Leonard Knight;  Slab City, a ‘snowbird’ community of hundreds squatters and retirees; the experimental art installation East Jesus; and the communities of Salton City, Salton Sea Beach and Niland have inspired participants to produce great work during previous workshops.

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