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Khalsa

A Separate Real(i)ty

"A Separate Real(i)ty" began in 2010 when I relocated to Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert. These images are from my first series of color photographic work after a long career of over three decades depicting Southern California's urban and suburban environments in black and white (using film and gelatin-silver prints).

The photographs represent my current reflections on time and place, nature and culture, and self and community, and our consumption of natural resources. It is my experience of this vast and beautiful yet complex, fragile and threatened eco-system. Of course, water (and lack of it) is a dominant subject in the photographs.

These images are from the areas in the California desert that I am currently researching, exploring and photographing. The subjects include the geothermal fields and power plants by the Salton Sea and the salt mines near Amboy.