High & Dry
High & Dry is a long-term collaboration between photographer Osceola Refetoff and writers Christopher Langley and Jack Eidt. Together they explore the desert and the people who live there.
High & Dry traveled to the highlands of the Atacama Desert to document the push for sources of lithium to power a “green” energy revolution.
Some call Slab City the Last Free Place, attracted by no-cost camping and supposed self-government. But life here is not free. Long-term residents (called Slabbers) must confront the ever-hotter-and-drier desert climate without standard electricity, running water, nor sewage system.
Join High & Dry collaborators on their journey navigating three days of co-creation in this circus full of artists, dreamers, thinkers, and what the event organizers call “facilitators of sensitive but provocative interactions" — otherwise known as the Bombay Beach Biennale.
The first dispatch in a series exploring the Salton Sea and lithium extraction in Imperial Valley.
Our lives are short. When compared to the landscape around us, we are the proverbial mayfly. Given the brevity of our mortality, we swell with pride, or shutter from embarrassment about what we have done to our home.
Whittaker-Bermite in Santa Clarita has had many transformation, but this latest one maybe the most promising of all.
Exhaustive landscapes have lives, history and stories to be read. Whittaker-Bermite in Santa Clarita, California — this scarred landscape especially has had many lives, which help guests understand better the condition of our world now.
Trinity Street in Mojave, California runs only three blocks, but in it High & Dry finds the cross-section of the lower economic strata of the United States and a "king" is facing society's toughest challenges.
When pioneer farmers got to Inyo County from the Midwest, most of them had to master a new way of farming in arid lands. These farmers ultimately learned irrigation techniques and built two hundred miles of unlined canals.
In the 1930s Indio coupled marketing their excellent date crop with Oriental fantasies borrowed from Hollywood and the short story collection “One Thousand and One Nights." High & Dry follows the evolution of this county's orientalism.
After a large-scale fire burned through a palm tree grove in Thermal, CA, all of the palms were assumed dead. But one pastor and his congregation prayed for a miracle.
The landscape of Badwater Basin, the most popular tourist attraction in Death Valley National Park, is always changing. Artist collective High & Dry report from the edge of this earth dip, and attempt to capture the immensity before them.