Beaches. Discarded Christmas trees, temporarily stored here in the parking lot of the picnic area at Ft. Macon, North Carolina, are used to establish new sand dunes. The trees catch blowing sand allowing for the formation of new dunes, Ft. Macon was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1826 and 1834

Peter Goin is an American photographer and land artist working primarily in the American West. Born in 1951, his practice engages with landscape transformation, environmental change, and the marks of human intervention on desert and mountain terrain. Working across large-format photography, installation, and archival projects, Goin documents sites of geological and cultural significance with an emphasis on temporal layering and geological time.