Kim Raff

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Racing History on Narrative.ly
kim raff
Dec 20, 2016
Take a look at a photo essay about the dissapearing Bonneville Salt Flats told through the car culture of Speed Week. I photographed the story during this years competition this past summer and the story was recently published on Narrative.ly.

"Since 1949, generations of speed demons have gathered along the salt flats of what was once Lake Bonneville, Utah, where an annual cycle of flooding in the winter months and evaporation in the dry summer has formed a dense surface of salt crystals and minerals. It's a place so flat and wide that you can see the curve of the earth's surface, making it perfect, when conditions are right, to drive faster than anywhere else on earth. The crowds come here for the record-breaking time trials of Speed Week. It's a place for legends in waiting. But since 2013 "“ the last time before this year that Speed Week took place "“ there has been a lot of waiting."

See essay here. 
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