Colombia was there,” Berntsen says, referring to the beloved and colorfully bearded performer, a regular on this scape prior to her death in 2018. “The first time I ever went to the beach, Ms.
Every weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the 34-year-old photographer treks to the sparkling stretch of white sand on Rockaway Peninsula’s southwestern edge in Queens, New York, to document the community that gathers in the shadow of the decrepit Neponsit Beach Hospital, a former tuberculosis sanitorium sitting abandoned for two decades.
Chris Berntsen has been a fixture at Jacob Riis park for nearly five years.