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Returning home after collecting stories from my time onboard the Resilience . In the quiet of the plane I’m reminded where photography can take me. The people you meet and the intimate settings you witness.

We took a drive out to a rural island in South Carolina that has repeatedly been the home and staging point for Apparent Winds. They prepared for their first circumnavigation in that dock along the bay in lowcountry South Carolina  in 2019. They returned from that sail in 2022. The "Resilience" was settled here in May, after sailing from the Pacific.

We arrived at night where Tripp, the captain of Resilience, and Kierra his partner and the marine biologist onboard, lead me down a pair of weathered and wooden stairs to an abandoned cabin of sorts. The sunset fired through the windows as we went over odds and ends they had left there in the dark. What we found were hundreds of little memories. Shells and tiger shark bones from French Polynesia, feathers from Alaska, a beautiful piece of fan coral that was a given to them by an elder in Guna Yala, Panama. It was a sweet, sort of spooky moment. Ghosts of the past. Bits and pieces of memories. They don't have a home on land, and therefore this place has become a sort of home to them. A sacred place that allows a small tie to the land and to home.

Co-contributor : “Tripp” Brower

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