Joe Grace, 91, (right) and Randy Dutremble finish a song at the Irish-American Sunday night singalong at Byrnes’ Irish Pub in Bath. The pub has become a second home for Grace since the death of his wife of 55 years
After a 20-year absence, flat track motorcycle racing roared back into Maine on Saturday around a dirt track in Farmington. Organized by the Franklin County chapter of the United Bikers of Maine, the event drew racers from
An overnight canoe and kayak trip down Maine’s Saco River: April 2019, from Fryeburg to Brownfield with Goose and Darren. Goose is a good lookout. He hears and sees the snags way before I do. My friend Darren and I
This is an ongoing project. These are analog human beings shot with a spring-powered camera on black-and-white film. I developed the 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 negatives by hand and printed them on silver gelatin paper in my darkroom.
Oriana Farnham goes into the water as her paddling partner, Frank D’Alessandro, hangs on at Six Mile Falls in Bangor on Saturday during the 52nd Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race. (Photo by Troy R. Bennett) And they’re
FRIENDLY BUT SHARP: College students visiting the the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, get a kick out of Henry the porcupine. Henry is one of the center’s ambassadors, taking part in school, library and nursing
Dr. Henry Pollard, a long-time Portland dentist, smiles for a self portrait while serving in the U.S. Army during WWII. When he came home, he never talked about the war and nobody saw the hundreds of photographs he took
It’s that time of year in Maine, again. The calendar reads October. Trees are revealing their hidden colors. Summer humidity is finally subsiding into crisp, fall days. Blue rules the sky when clouds aren’t dominating
The asbestos mine in Asbestos, Quebec operated from 1879 until 2012. The giant, useless hole takes up half the town. (Photo by Troy R. Bennett) Objective: Drink Asbestos beer Portland to Eustis, to Asbestos, to Montpelier
Legendary ska masters The Toasters at the Hoods Car Club Riot. I’ve known about ska music for decades but I didn’t start believing in it until yesterday. That’s when I saw legendary ska masters The Toasters
This ongoing series of images started out as an excuse to hand color some images. The wet plate collodion process is a cumbersome chemical photo-making method invented in the 1850s. The images are a unique creations on blackened
Woman in the Woods is a series of pictures I made over the course of a few summers in Maine. The model and I collaborated about a half-dozen times, all told. I was looking to tell a story that had gaps. That is, I wanted
Photojournalism is the mystical art of telling stories with pictures. It started with cave paintings and it’s evolved into digital cameras and Photoshop. It’s not just pretty pictures. Photojournalism is about images
Cancer ransacked Andrea Caron’s body just before her 35th birthday. It stole her breasts and both ovaries and it didn’t stop there. When I met her in 2014, the chemotherapy was looting her hair, eyelashes and eyebrows,
Photojournalism is the mystical art of telling stories with pictures. It started with cave paintings and it’s evolved into digital cameras and Photoshop. It’s not just pretty pictures. Photojournalism is about images
Stars shine in the eastern sky on Friday night in Limington above the ice on Horne Pond. I pitched my tent and stayed the night. (Photo by Troy R. Bennett) With my tent pegs finally pounded into the ice with help from the
Alexis Powers (Photo baby Troy R. Bennett) Barefoot on the bricks of Monument Square, Alexis Powers whirled in a blur of crimson flames and pounding drums while the evening deepened from purple to blue. The assembled July
Orange wooden markers, shaped like fiddles, tacked to trees and telephone poles marked the trail from Fairfield to the 40th annual East Benton Fiddlers Convention Sunday on the Littlefield family farm. Some folks camped