Every Image Tells a Story

Coastal Camera Club and Rehoboth Beach Writer's Group

May 6, 2022 - June 5, 2022

Tubbs Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 2022 (5pm to 7pm) 

When artists from two artforms join forces, the result is amazing and thought provoking! “Every Image Tells a Story” is a collaboration between two community arts organizations – the Coastal Camera Club’s Photography as Fine Art Group and the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild. It brings together photography and creative writing in a way that enhances the experience of appreciating art.

The premise for this exhibition is that every image tells a story. The Photography as Fine Art group has explored the subject of fine art and learned that an essential element is the artist’s intent, the emotional content, the idea, or a story the image has to tell. The artist has a message they want to convey in their work.

The Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild is dedicated to fostering the literary arts in Southern Coastal Delaware. For them, writing is “about taking risks. It is about challenges, about unpredictability, about change. And because it is about those things, it is exciting, at times frightening.”

For this exhibition, the writers each interpreted one photographic image and asked themselves what story, message, or emotion they feel as they examine the image. Is this different or similar to the photographer’s intent? These questions beg to be answered, and writers and photographers will be on hand at the opening reception to share their perspectives.

Exhibiting photographers from the Coastal Camera Club Photography as Fine Art Group are Maryfrancis Berger, Stan Divorski, Paul Hammesfahr, Kathryn Harris, Brook Hedge, Marilyn Himelick, Don James, Susan Jordan, Suzanne Kricker, Marta Nammack, Bobbie Ranney, George Rosenberg, George Rosenberg, Leslie Sinclair, Dick Snyder, Peter Treiber, Keith Warren, and Jacquie O. Young.

Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild members participating in “Every Image Tells a Story” are Anne Barney, Patty Perreault Bennett, Kim Burnett, Gail Braune Comorat, Ellen Collins, Angela Creager, Walter Curran, Irene Fick, Kevin Fidgeon, Lisa Graff, Tom Hoyer, Sharon Lee Hoover, Tim Hudenburg, Kathleen L. Martens, Sarah Barnett, Maureen Rouhi, Sharon K. Sheppard, Joanne Sinsheimer, and Mary Ellen South.

Image:  “I’ll Show You Yours” writer Anne Barney interpreted the work by photographer Marta Nammack.  “Am I your ‘gritty street life’ portrait? I know that’s what you’re after, when you come to this part of town.”