South Beach Lifeguard Stands

These lifeguard stands had just been completed when I photographed them on Miami Beach. Their surfaces were still pristine, the colors almost unnaturally saturated beneath the hard Florida sun.

What interested me was less their function than the transformation created by color, light and point of view. Isolated against an uninterrupted blue sky, the familiar structures became compositions of planes, angles and curves — somewhere between architecture and sculpture.

I photographed them simply because I found them beautiful.

Green and turquoise South Beach lifeguard stand against a blue sky

Red, orange and yellow South Beach lifeguard stand against a blue sky

Blue and yellow South Beach lifeguard stand against a blue sky

South Beach Lifeguard Stands — Triptych

Three photographs presented as a single work.
Archival pigment prints face-mounted to acrylic, with aluminum backing and concealed floating mounts.
Each panel measures 42 × 42 inches (107 × 107 cm). Overall installation dimensions are approximately 134 × 42 inches (340 × 107 cm), with 4-inch spacing between panels.
Offered exclusively as a complete triptych in a limited edition of five, plus two artist's proofs (5 + 2 AP).
Edition details, values, and availability upon request.

Gallery visualization of the South Beach Lifeguard Stands triptych

Digital installation mockup for illustrative purposes only. The image represents the proposed scale and presentation of the triptych and does not depict an actual installation. Final artwork will reproduce the original photographs shown above.