Ice Island: 2023 to present

Winter was once a season of certainty on Lake Erie.

Ice arrived, and with it, a way of life; fishermen dragging shanties onto the frozen sheet, islanders crossing miles of solid water as if it were land. But now, the ice is gone.

This essay documents Put-in-Bay, Ohio, a place where winter traditions are unraveling. This is an ongoing body of work originally commissioned by The New York Times.