DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954
powerHouse Books, Shipping May 2025
11 x 8.5″ hardcover, offset
112 pages, 49 black and white plates
Essays by Rufus Wainwright, Jorn Weisbrodt,
Nat Ward, and Wayne Koestenbaum
First Edition, limited to 2000 copies

DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954—a bustling photographic excursion to Montauk’s most famous beach—tells naked, unedited stories of who we are when the sand is a stage: sensual beings, social creatures, dramatic actors, those who want and wish to be wanted, those who look, and those who wish to be looked at. Accompanied by an essay from legendary musician Rufus Wainwright and his husband, Jörn Weisbrodt, along with an afterword from acclaimed poet and essayist Wayne Koestenbaum, Nat Ward’s sprawling black and white panoramas of Ditch Plains Beach revel in the human drama that makes DITCH such a profound escape.