The Lantern Room

For Volume II, I'm pulling almost entirely from one headland. The Oregon Coast has a number of lighthouses. Four of them are within an hour of my studio. But Yaquina Head — the one I see most often, the one I've been photographing the longest, the one I finally got inside fifteen years after first telling myself I wanted to — is the one I keep returning to. Five of the six prints in this Volume are made from its grounds, including one from inside the lantern room itself. Heceta Head, an hour south, sits in for the sixth. Built in the same era, sister beacon, similar geometry, different mood entirely. These photographs aren't about lighthouses as architecture. They're about what happens around them — the fog, the supermoon, the aurora, the winter light that's never the same morning twice. A lighthouse is a marker. The photograph is what it's marking. If Volume I was about the coast at its most dramatic, Volume II is the coast at its most patient. Same coast. Different watching required. — Jeremy