The Lonesome, Uncrowded East

Summers on the East Coast are crowded, indulgent affairs, the urban throngs flooding the coast, parents dragging gaggles of skim- and boogie-board toting children behind them, and even the slightest bump of windswell sending a million firweather shredders to the nearest rock groin or pier. 

But winters… Well, just ask Seth Conboy, one of a handful of young talents happy to stick around the East Coast through the cold months, enjoying empty sandbank barrels with a few thoroughly neoprened homeys until well into spring. 

How cold is too cold? Depends on if it looks like this. Seth Conboy, Delmarva.

Photography

Ben Curr

“Through the winter months, the most common signage you will see from North Carolina to New Jersey is ‘vacancy’,” Seth says of the short film’s title. “The winter brings emptiness to all of the beach towns in the Mid-Atlantic, with freezing temperatures and perfect waves for miles. I didn’t leave the East Coast this year, it didn’t really make sense to. Luckily some friends were around to get some footage.”