Michael Wilkins
Menu
High-key black-and-white aerial photograph of thatched palapa roofs on a beach edge dissolving into a blown-white sea.

Palapas, White Sea

Tulum, Mexico · December 2020

DJI Mavic Air 2, 5 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/15 of a second, ISO 200

Exposed for the roofs; let the sea go to white.

The thatched palapa roofs along the Tulum beach road, shot from above and stripped to black and white. Exposing for the texture of the thatch pushed the midday sea to pure white — which turned out to be the picture: dark woven circles floating on nothing. The high-key twin of all the low-key work elsewhere on this site.