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September 04, 2018 to November 03, 2018
Martino Gallery, 2nd floor
Jay Fleming's exhibit will include photographs from Working the Water and from his forthcoming book Island Island Life - a documentation of life on Smith and Tangier Islands, the only two inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay.
The reception is on Thursday, September 27th from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Photographer Jay Fleming’s color image “Sharps Island Light,” the leaning icon of Chesapeake Bay lighthouses, has been chosen for the cover of the eleventh annual Delmarva Review, to be published in November.
“We’re pleased to select a cover photograph from the substantial work of regional artists,” said Wilson Wyatt, executive editor of the review. “Jay’s striking images tell us stories visually through his unique artistic style. The iron strength of ‘Sharps Island Light,’ rising 35 feet above the Chesapeake, compliments a folio of compelling prose and poetry that will last beyond our lifetimes.”
Fleming, 31, is a professional fine art photographer who learned his craft from two powerful sources, his dogged self-persistence and the tutelage of his photographer father, Kevin Fleming, another highly skilled professional artist and former National Geographic photographer.
With a studio in Annapolis, Jay Fleming’s images have been featured in many magazines and exhibited in fine art galleries throughout the Chesapeake region. His first book of photography, Working the Water, was published in 2016. A second book, Island Life, is scheduled for 2020. He graduated from St. Mary’s College majoring in economics.
The eleventh edition of Delmarva Review will contain new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from over forty authors in the United States and several other countries. About half are from the Chesapeake and Delmarva region.
Delmarva Review is a nonprofit literary journal published in print and e-book editions by the Delmarva Review Literary Fund, Inc. Both editions are available at Amazon.com and other leading online booksellers. The journal is supported by individual contributions, sales, and a grant from the Talbot County Arts Council with funds from the Maryland State Arts Council.
The next submission period for new literary work and cover art opens on November 1. Please see the website for guidelines and subscriptions: www.DelmarvaReview.com.
The eighth and final Annapolis Photography workshop of 2018 was as close to perfect as they get. The weather was ideal - light winds and a few clouds in the sky. I had six photographers onboard from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Our first stop after leaving Sandy Point was the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. We photographed the spans of the bridge silhouetted with the dawn light behind them and the charter boat fleet fishing the rock piles on the western edge of the shipping channel. After the sun was above the horizon, we headed south to photograph crabbers working at the mouth of the Severn River. As the light continued to get brighter, we ran the boat down south towards Thomas Point where we photographed the lighthouse, two more crab potters and the cargo ships anchored offshore.
When the light became too harsh to shoot, we headed back to the dock and the group reconvened at my downtown Annapolis studio. In the studio, we did a quick seminar on editing, retouching and printing.
On Monday evening at Donnelly's Dockside in Arnold, I was on set producing a commercial for Maryland's Best. The 15-second piece shows a 'True Blue' Maryland crab feast and highlights the social aspects of eating crabs.
This production would not have been possible without the generosity of the following people/businesses:
-Dan from Donnelly's Dockside for the use of his restaurant
-Nick Crook and Ben Byers for the best MD Crabs of the year
-Shannon Sullivan for gathering the crab eaters
-Alexander Glass for helping with the shooting/production
-Flying Dog Brewery for their support of the Maryland Crabbers through the Deadrise summer ale and the 'True Blue' program
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