Stonington fisherman Jeff Dworsky, 69, had his first book of photographs published late last year, called Sealskin. The book marries Dworksy’s photos of the Maine coast in the 1970s and 1980s with an old Celtic folktale of a seal who changes into a woman, marries and has a family.
After moving to Maine as a young man, settling off the grid on a small island off Stonington and beginning his fishing career, Dworsky felt called to document the world around him, which he knew was rapidly changing.
“I really wanted to record what was left of the Stonington that I had moved here on purpose to be a part of,” Dworsky said. “Through that period, my photography developed and was borne out of a sense of loss and nostalgia.” In addition to the book, published by Charcoal Press, 1,500 of Dworsky’s photographs are now online at the Penobscot Marine Museum’s photo archive.
Sealskin is available at https://charcoalpress.com/shop/sealskin.
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