Marco Andres Arguello snaps nightime coastlines in his Tungsten Beach series

Date
10 November 2014

When darkness falls, the beach is usually reserved for inebriated frolics and skinnydipping, but photographer Marco Andres Arguello gives our twilight coastlines a new context with his series, Tungsten Beach. Marco focuses on the lifeguard stands and other structures that litter the sandy shores of South Beach in Miami, Florida but timed his photographs to coincide with Urban Beach Week, a hip­hop event notorious for wild parties and mischief. As a precaution, local police have started to set up tungsten floodlights around these structures for security during the event.

Casting them in a dazzling spotlight, Marco’s images turn these everyday pieces of street furntiture into exhibits housed in an outdoor, sea-­fringed museum. Being able to appreciate these structures away from the day-­to-­day chaos they’re usually surrounded by gives them an unusual beauty. The stacked sun loungers, the bright, stripy huts and bare metal goals can be appreciated for the angles, shapes and colours they’re made up of rather than the usual function they provide.

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Marco Andres Arguello: Tungsten Beach

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Rebecca Fulleylove

Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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