The derelict Rock-A-Hoola water park in the middle of the Mojave Desert, east of Barstow, California, 2020-2023, with a post-apocalyptic Industrial soundtrack by Relay For Death.
This place has always fascinated me over the decades — it used to be an actual water park, big water slides and pools and all, right there next to Interstate 15 in the middle of the boiling hot, stone dry Mojave Desert, a little east of Barstow, California. I remember it being full of people… sometimes. Other times it was closed. It had a troubled history, and has been derelict continuously now for many years. Naturally it’s been heavily graffitied and there’s always someone strolling furtively around in the ruins taking photos (I’ve even seen self-consciously Punk fashion shoots there) or doing donuts on the broken concrete; it’s a real ruins porn magnet for more serious photographers. This is my contribution to the genre, done over a couple of years and a few of my own furtive run-and-gun sessions…