Welcome to The Fresh Coast Project by Photographer Ed Wargin

Photographer Ed Wargin is proud to introduce one of his most ambitious projects to date, creating photographs of the Great Lakes region on film prior to the cessation of film as a medium. Learn more about the many reasons behind the project, and why it's important to all those who appreciate the Great Lakes. Read more here >

New Video: The Great Lakes

The Great Lakes from Ed Wargin on Vimeo.

The video titled "The Great Lakes" is a video short about my some my experiences from the past year while traveling and working around the Great Lakes for The Fresh Coast Project. It may take a few moments to load the HD quality video so please be patient if it appears to run slowly. Above all, thank you for your continued support and for sharing this work with your friends and family. 

News!

The Fresh Coast Project would like to thank the Merrell Shoe Company and its Merrell Origins blog for highlighting our work!

Here is an excerpt from the blog:

The Fresh Coast Project sits at the intersection of art, history, wilderness, and memory, as Ed Wargin captures the details along the 10,000 plus miles of shoreline that make up the Great Lakes. And he's using (gasp) both digital and film mediums.

Digital photographs are the primary vehicle for most of the images we see these days. Especially when hanging in the internet world. So...all of us here. Part of the core mission of The Fresh Coast Project is utilizing film as a marker by which to tangibly track the Great Lakes. These are real pieces of wilderness memory that Wargin is creating—moments of wildlife, land, and water—that will serve as artifacts of something as changeable as a shoreline.

To read the entire blog post, stop on over to Merrell Origins today. Thanks Merrell! 

Fresh Coast Project highlighted in Upnorthica blog this month!

Here is an excerpt from the blog:

Ed Wargin’s childhood home, outside the port of Duluth, was a short distance from Lake Superior. When he became an adult, images of his northern home became more important especially as landscapes had changed over time. Photography gave Ed a tangible way to record the important things, before they were gone.

“I grew up in the Great Lakes, I’ve always felt the connection to it. Long ago, it became my goal to capture the grandeur of the entire Fresh Coast as an artistic, archival, and historical project…but along the way, the project became much more than this. There are historical repercussion to the loss of film. A piece of film is tangible, and provides an indisputable reference,” Wargin writes.

To read the entire blog post, stop on over to Upnorthica today. 

Great Coast Photographic Workshops 2012 to be announced soon!

Have you always dreamed of making spectacular photographs of rocky shores, meandering windswept dunes or towering lighthouses? Do you wish to learn from an experienced, skilled photographer? If you said yes, we would like to invite you to the Great Coast Photographic Workshops with Ed Wargin, now taking place all throughout the Great Lakes Region. To learn more >

 

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Did You Know?

If Lake Superior's shoreline were unraveled into a highway, it would extend 1,826 miles (2,938 kilometers), the distance from Duluth to Miami.