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NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR
: Here is a compelling tale of the light and dark that binds friends,
that moves the seasons, that governs the soul. It is, as photographer
Jed Devine writes in the foreword, a book « about
friendship , and Friendship, Maine … in two parts, by two
friends » : Jim Dinsmore, a writer who pulls his roots from
Connecticut and moves to an island in Friendship, Maine, and Devine,
à New Yorker and summer resident of Friendship.
Devine's 64 palladium prints form an extended sequence that moves from
innocence to decay and return. The images emphasize the beauty and
primacy of light while capturing the visual drama and irony of the
Maine landscape.
Complementing the images are Jim's letters to Jed. Over the years these
letters — a substitute for the novel Jim intended to write
— grow longer, denser, darker, particularly during the illness
that leads to his early death.
More meditation than documentary, Jim and Jed's Friendship
takes stunning advantage of the interplay between word and image,
writer and photographer. Jed writes : « Like the
fishermen, we worked the same water but set our own traps. This is our
haul ».
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