The Last Resort: Lahaina | Maui | Portraits

“We must learn to become conservationists of memory. Otherwise, the damage we have done to our planet will cost us our past, as it may have already cost us our future.” —Omar El Akkad, The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate, 2022 “You can leave it all behind, sail to Lahaina … They call it Paradise, I don’t know why, you call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.” —Glenn Frey & Don Henley, Eagles, “The Last Resort”, Hotel California, 1976 In 2022, I created a portfolio of black & white photographs of the people and places of Lahaina and Maui. With the destruction of Lahaina by fire in 2023, the images offer a glimpse of a rich, complex community, and a reminder of what we’re at risk of losing in the time of climate change.