On Saturday, June 29, a new photography exhibit entitled “Chesapeake Tribute: People and Places” opens in the Van Lennep Auditorium of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD. The show continues through September and is free for CBMM members or with museum admission.
Featuring the work of area photographers Carlton Harbaugh, Bea Poulin, and Joanne Riley, the exhibit includes images that represent an era the photographers believe is fast disappearing from the Chesapeake landscape and seascape. The tribute includes photographs of aging Chesapeake Bay architecture, bay-built fishing boats, and the celebration of a charter captain’s life.
Carlton Harbaugh grew up in Havre de Grace, MD and served in the US Navy working in intelligence and photography. Settling in Southern Maryland in the late 1990s, he embarked on a photographic mission to capture the life of watermen and their boats. Harbaugh is a member of The Royal Photographic Society, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Muddy Creed Artists Guild.
Muddy Creek Artists Guild founding President Bea Poulin of Shady Side, MD studied photography at the Kansas City Art Institute, earning a bachelor’s degree in art methodology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Poulin photographs old farmhouses, summer cottages, abandoned churches, tobacco barns, crab shacks, and more, seeking to convey the essence of the structure in its original surrounding.
Joanne Riley, of Churchton, MD is a self-taught photographer whose subjects include boat captains, babies, children fishing, models, and wedding ceremonies in tobacco barns. Riley’s first exhibit with Poulin entitled “Faces and Places” featured iconic images of faces, infants, children, and animals. Riley is a founding member of the Muddy Creek Artists Guild.
The exhibit is open daily from 9am to 6pm. For more information, visit www.cbmm.org or call 410-745-2916.