The Legacy Project
MCAS El Toro/Orange County Great Park
The Legacy Project is dedicated to producing comprehensive documentation of the shuttered El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and its transformation into one of the nation's largest metropolitan parks, the Orange County Great Park. This non-profit documentary project will continue over the next decade as the park develops and will employ photographs, video, and media to provide a unique record of an extraordinary land use development.
The project began in the spring of 2002, when Burchfield secured permission to bring a group of advanced photography students from Cypress College to document MCAS El Toro, a politically volatile abandoned military base located in the heart of development prone Orange County, California. The experience and results were astounding and led several colleagues and Burchfield to the conclusion that a much broader, long-term, and in-depth endeavor was warranted.
Shortly thereafter, Clayton Spada, Mark Chamberlain, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, Jacques Garnier, and Burchfield formed The legacy Project and made the commitment to spend the next ten to fifteen years producing a visual legacy of urban change as the former air station became the OC Great Park. Given the collective background of these six photographic artists, their work treads a line between documentation and art. To date, they have shot over 80,000 photographs, produced extensive video footage, produced numerous mixed media artworks, and specialty projects, including the Great Picture Project of 2006, which resulted in the making of the world's largest camera and the world's largest photograph.
In addition to numerous exhibitions and lectures, two books have been produced about The Legacy Project, the first, In Transition - El Toro: A Photographic Essay from Past to Present, was published by the Great Park Conservancy in the fall of 2003. The second book, The Edge of Air: The Final Days of MCAS El Toro, was published by Laguna Wilderness Press in the summer of 2005. For further information on the books refer to the publications section. For further information on The Legacy Project and the Great Picture refer to
www.legacyphotoproject.com.
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Guard Tower, Bldg. #408 &
NBC HQ, Bldg. #1720, 2003
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MCAS El Toro Base Housing, 2003
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Bunker by El Toro Golf Course, Bldg. #171, 2005
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Child Development Center, Bldg. #873, 2005
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Disbursing Office, Bldg. #66, 2005
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Drop Tank Rinse Facility, Bldg. #923, 2003
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Step Up Stand Down #1, Bldg. #291, 2004
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Step Up Stand Down #3, Bldg. #14, 2004
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Air Defense - Findings, 2005
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War Stories - Findings #1, 2005
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War Stories, Findings #3, 2005
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MCAS El Toro Gate #2, 2004
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IYAOYAS, Bldg #406, 2005
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Footprint #1, 2003
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Footprint #8, 2005
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Illuminated Chair, Bldg. #58,
Billeting Faciltiy, 2005
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Interior with Shoes, Bldg. #48, FIIU Headquarters, 2003
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Interior, Electronic Communications
Maintenance Shop, Bldg. #15, 2004
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Law Center Holding Cell,
Bldg #54, 2003
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Interium Police Quarters,
Bldg #11, 2005
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Passages, 2005
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Pushing the Envelope, 2005
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Runway R25 Looking West, 2005
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You Have Entered a De-Militarized Zone, 2005
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