SEX ON THE BEACH
CHRIS BERNTSEN HAS BEEN A FIXTURE AT JACOB RIIS PARK FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS. Every weekend between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the 34-year-old photographer treks to the sparkling stretch of white sand on Rockaway Peninsula’s southwestern edge in Queens, New York, to document the community that gathers in the shadow of the decrepit Neponsit Beach Hospital, a former tuberculosis sanitorium sitting abandoned for two decades.
“The first time I ever went to the beach, Ms. Colombia was there,” Berntsen says, referring to the beloved and colorfully bearded performer, a regular on this scape
