Slab City has been created by a small but committed squatters community. It lies in

the Colorado Desert in South Eastern California and takes its name from the

concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base. It is a truly

horrific and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same

balance of beauty and beast. Unbearable temperature highs in the summer weed

out the many who inhabit the free space in the winter, leaving only the most

resilient, or the most unfortunate to become permanent residents. It is also these

people who maintain the ad-hoc infrastructure that makes it such a desirable

community to visit in the cooler winter months. The people who stay year after year

could be described as poverty stricken, living in possibly the worst conditions in the

USA, and some residents would tell you this is the truth. Others fiercely defend their

lifestyle as a deliberate choice to reject the mainstream society. For these people

Slab City provides a freedom they’d never experienced before. There are others

who were forced here through circumstance; society wont tolerate them due to their

pasts as felons, addicts or vagrants, but who whole heartedly embrace the

opportunity to live in a community that wont judge them. Slab City is a place for the

broken and desperate and  for the fierce defenders of freedom from tyranny. But

more than anything else, it is what this small group of people call home.