The Grand Strand takes a look at the transient people and the changing landscape of the 60-mile arc of white beaches from Little River, SC to the saltwater ecosystem and rice fields of Winyah Bay, SC. Dubbed “The Redneck Rivera” and Dirty Myrtle,” the coastal area attracts a rare mix of people – day trippers to retirees – presenting a chance encounter with tourist eyes, the “man-on –the-street” and the photographer as collaborators in an urban, yet exotic drama. The documentary tradition in photography and in this instance, street photography, endeavors to creatively address social and environmental conditions, asking an essential question about the nature of reality. Has the beach become a metaphor for society, where an urgent sense of longing (by the tourist, the retiree) for something elusive, the ‘otherness,’ where a beach experience or everyday life becomes hedonistic?