Foundation
The archive
What was recorded, in the form it was recorded. Nothing here plays on its own.
The United Nations, 20 January 2016
Address to the United Nations, 20 January 2016
Gregory Sarno presents the case for nature-assisted shoreline recovery to a United Nations audience on 20 January 2016.
The Foundation
Beach Recovery Foundation exists to make coastal restoration visible. The engineering happens underwater, over years, in places most people never see. Our work is to document it, exhibit it, teach it, and keep the record honest.
That work runs in four parts:
Film — documentary production, including Saving Bù, recording what returns to a shoreline once it is allowed to rebuild.
Public art — the canvases carried by the nearshore structures, and the artists who make them.
Education and archive — the photographic record, the field documentation, and the material behind twenty years of shoreline.
Membership and events — the people who fund the work and the gatherings that bring them to it.
Film and time-lapse
Time-lapse: the shoreline rebuilding itself.
A single stretch of coast, recorded over time as sand is captured and the beach profile returns.
How it began.
The origins of the work, in the founder's own account.
Photography
Every photograph here carries its site, its year and its photographer. Images without that provenance are not published.