Summer Bodies is a photographic search for the universal, for places where bodies are truly democratized and the identities constructed for us by society cease to exist, even if only for a few seconds. I criss-crossed many beaches and approached people I didn’t know to take their picture. The ones that accepted were then given a pre-stamped postcard so that they could write to me and have the opportunity to seize the narrative of the experience as they saw it. Only a few chose to write back. In a very Whitman-esque plot twist, Summer Bodies became less about portraits of strangers and more about seeing myself through others, in those fleeting seconds when I pressed the shutter and the sunlight, and sea spray and ancient grains of sand all grazed our skin in the exact same way.