Brian Bolster

Winter's Watch

Brian Bolster

Alexandra de Steiguer

Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to one woman - its winter caretaker who braves the colder, darker months of inclement weather by embracing the solitude and finding inspiration, and life, in what would otherwise be considered the 'bones' of winter.

One Year Lease

Brian Bolster

Phone messages from the cat-loving landlord living directly above you. Ah, New York.

Departing Gesture

Jonathan Napolitano, Brian Bolster

With grace and purpose, Trey Sebrell runs one of only a few funeral homes in Mississippi for those dying from HIV/AIDS-related conditions.