REQUIEM WALTZ IS A SONG BY EMILY JANE WHITE.

A natural accident multiplied by the human intervention created this zone called the Salton Sea : a sea that is way too salty to keep its creatures alive. The salt turned a whole area into a cemetery. But as chaotic and desperate as they are, Salton landscapes are still amazingly beautiful.  

Poindexter used to say that chaos is what happens when an angel falls in love with a demon. Wandering around feels like being a witness of this love story.

The series was shot in 2014. Lots has changed, yet not.

Lithium deposits were discovered under the Salton, so that'll get ripped out of the ground soon. The water evaporates at a rate faster than replenishing, so the waterline recedes about 6' a year.

I called the series Salton Waltz because of a song by Emily Jane White called Requiem Waltz. 

Oh the sweetest mark upon your list
Is your own seductive oh death wish
And God above no interventionist
Stands as you're strangled by the devil's fist

Eros and Thanatos are probably the refrain of my whole work as a writer and as a photographer, as humans are capable of the best and the worst, and after all... there's no life without death, nor Thanatos without Eros...



A part of the series was exhibited in 2014 and 2016 in Paris, and in 2025 in London during the Cluster Print and Photography Fair at Unlocked Shoreditch.