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This second printing of Dworsky’s popular debut photobook, Sealskin, brings back into print his chronicle of family life and the fishing community of a small Maine village during the 1970s and 1980s. Using Kodachrome film, Dworsky documented daily life, work on the water, and intimate moments at home, capturing a close-knit coastal world that no longer exists. The title refers to a Celtic folktale about a fisherman who falls in love with a selkie—a seal that can take human form—only to ultimately lose her back to the sea, a quiet echo of the book’s themes of memory, loss, and change.
Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16.
He became a fisherman.
He met a girl, got married, and moved to an even smaller island.
He built a life.
He dug a well. Built a boat. Planted a garden. Set foundation stones. Built a house. Built traps. Raised sheep. He fathered three children.
His wife left the island and the life they had built.
He stayed and raised the children.
He fished for 40 years.
He is there still, on a small island in Penobscot Bay.
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