Littoral Drift – Lens Culture
![Meghann Ripenhoff's Littoral Drift #38 2013 Unique Cyanotype (by SF Camerawork, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/21843422456_e680fa2dc1_k-e1696982132622-424x900.jpg)
Inky blues, frothy whites and occasional flecks of gold make up the color spectrum in Meghann Riepenhoff’s breathtaking camera-less cyanotypes..Littoral Drift—a geological term used to describe the transportation of sand and gravel by wind-driven waves—is Riepenhoff’s “collaboration” with the landscape and the ocean, in which she opens herself to chance and embraces the textures of nature into her working process…..