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Janine
Coyne October 25 - November
15, 2000
"Italy without Sicily forms no image at all in the soul; only here is the key to everything - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787 Sicily, "the Island in the Sun" as Homer describes it in the Odyssey, is the geographical center of the Mediterranean Sea. Its unique identity has been shaped by countless civilizations, who have invaded and settled there throughout the ages. Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and many other groups have left behind a rich and complex heritage, making Sicily one of the most diverse cultures in the region. Today this interwoven tapestry of cultures remains evident in building traditions, varieties of food, and many other customs found among the people. Sicily: A Photographic Essay, is a journey recorded through a photographer’s lens that reveals through formal portrait, candid expression or in some cases the environment itself, an intimate dimension of a traveler’s experience, an intimacy that would otherwise elude memory. Though each photograph has a strength of its own, grouping them together forms a visual narrative that enables a viewer to study the lives of these rugged island people in a much deeper and more meaningful way. As a photojournalist I have always felt black and white to be the most powerful medium one could use. We tend to look at black and white more graphically. The artifice of composition, light, shadow and texture become more dominant in the silver gelatin print. The art in black and white photography lies in combining such formal elements with the richness of visual reality. The instant fusion of art and reality creates an aura and excitement in each photograph that is unique to the medium. To the photojournalist, a photo essay in black and white is both visual journalism and fine art. Photography, like travel is a life adventure. The photographer encounters new visions contained in a stream of elusive single moments and commits them to a permanent image. The magic for the photographer comes in capturing that moment in time. Janine Coyne
Exhibition checklist Portrait of a Fisherman,
Stromboli, Sicily 1997 ... image Woman on her Balcony,
Taormina 1997 Dock Worker, Castellmare
1997 Man on his Motorcycle,
Lipari 1997 Under the Arch, Taormina
1997 People Watching,
Taormina 1997 Man and his Boots,
Lipari 1997 Columns of the Classical
Temple, Segesta 1997 Italian Lovers, Giardini
Naxos 1997 Laundry Drying, Lipari
1997 Convento Dei Cappuccini
(Catacombs), Palermo 1997 Children Playing,
Taormina 1997 Field Workers, Milazzo
1997 Billboard, Giardini
Naxis 1997 Posto di Ristoro,
Segesta 1997 The Soccer Players,
Taormina 1997 Pushing the Nets,
Lipari 1997 Young Couple and
their Restaurant, Taormina 1997 Cemetary Headstone,
Stromboli 1997 The Butcher, Taormina
1997 Child Viewing Meat
Delivery, Taormina 1997 Woman and her Clothing
Shop, Stromboli 1997 Shopkeeper, Taormina
1997 Laundry and Shadow,
Lipari 1997 Fisherman of Stromboli
#1 1997 Fisherman of Stromboli
#2 1997 Fishermen of Stromboli
#3 1997 Dome, Lipari 1997
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