Dunes’ Edge takes place amongst a region slowly receding to the sea. Exacerbated by the effects of climate change and human impact, the images depicted are an elegy to the outer shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where the onslaught of coastal erosion has been a yearly constant. Carefully crafting photographs of the personal alongside the landscape, combined with Iacobucci’s familial archive and broader historical imagery, this work acts as a tool for memory, examining the periphery as what once was and what is. Resulting in a monograph, this series interweaves the present and the past, existing in a transient state between.  

Utilizing film as a fleeting material, a selection of the negatives exposed become degraded through an intentional process. This is done in a controlled environment, where the film is soaked in ocean water and sand for the length of a full tidal cycle. What occurs is a deterioration, allowing the relationship between the elements and the eroding coastline to appear within the damaged emulsion. Just as the eroding coast can reveal remnants of the past, the altered film can unveil nature’s burgeoning unpredictability.