The Source — Ossabaw Island, John Gholson

31°47′40″N · 81°6′44″W · Ossabaw Island, Georgia

THE SOURCE

Film Photography — Ossabaw Interior Marsh

Medium Film Photography
Location Ossabaw Island, Georgia
Artist John Gholson
Period circa 2008–2013

The sun finds the water through the understory. Everything becomes halation and wet green and the smell of tidal mud — a sensory overload reduced to a single frame. The lens flare is not a flaw; it is the photograph being honest about what it was like to be there. Writer Annie Dillard worked on this island. She would understand this image — the way it refuses to be only beautiful and insists on being overwhelming.

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