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Moses Berkson is not your average surf photographer. He chooses to cover the improvised secrecy of surfing’s territoriality—the engineering of paths that lead to places that only true surfers know about. The artist has the ability to evoke the most ephemeral moments of the environment’s varying qualities of light, thus engaging the viewer to question his own notions of actuality and space, as well as universal temporality. Berkson’s first solo US exhibition, Coastal Access at The Constant Gallery, is a document of the photographer’s ongoing relationship with his home state of California. Recognizing that regionalism is ultimately a socially constructed notion, Berkson incorporates intimations of localism and physiologically recluse spatialities of non-places vis-à-vis emerging contentions of authenticity, artificiality and conflation in his captured moments. Without disclosing the locations of these elsewheres, he manifests historical apocrypha amidst the proliferating breeds of the feigning and the desiring. Coastal Access runs November 1 through November 29, 2008.
http://mosesberkson.com/

This guy's work sounds interesting and inspiring for my work. Coastal access is a big issue for us Northlanders and even down here in Dunedin you are starting to see areas of the natural coastline being sold to foreign (and local) people who restrict access to beaches etc. Its a key issue for surfers and anyone who loves the coast.