Katy Kelleher is a writer and editor based in Portland, Maine. Her writing regularly appears in Maine magazine and Maine Home+Design and she has contributed to Boston Magazine, Eater, and Jezebel.
Greta Rybus is a Portland, Maine-based photojournalist specializing in editorial portraiture, food, travel, and documentary photography. Her goal to spend one month of every year photographing in a new place has brought her to Hawaii, Senegal, Panama, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, the San Juan Islands, Montana, Seattle, and Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains.
"In 'Handcrafted Maine: Art, Life, Harvest &Home, ' author Katy
Kelleher presents lively profiles of more than 20 artists, artisans
and craftspeople. From a painter, an architect and a boatbuilder to
a leatherworker, lobster-men and more, the book celebrates the
triumphs and challenges of entrepreneurship and independence. With
hundreds of inspiring color photographs and intimate narrative
portraits, 'Handcrafted Maine' provides a window into the inner
lives of creatives, bringing to life the environment that nurtures
a common-sense approach to life and craft."
- Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville)
"Kelleher and Rybus - the book's writer and photographer,
respectively - have a broad definition of the word "handcrafted."
Their smart little collection of profiles includes not just
traditional makers - potters, weavers, leatherworkers, and
sculptors - but also farmers, restaurateurs, lobstermen, wilderness
guides, and even a seaweed harvester. The book itself is a beauty.
Rybus (a Down East contributor) shoots in a style that blurs the
line between documentary and portraiture - her shots of Maine
creatives at work feel like intimate captured moments. Kelleher's
accompanying text is on the reverent side, but she doesn't
sugarcoat "the handcrafted life." Readers get a nuanced look at how
many Mainers make a living with their hands, along with the
challenges such lifestyles can entail."
- Down East
"The young team behind this sumptuous, classy gift book traveled
far and wide across Maine to report these stories, and each feels
lovingly told, in words by Kelleher and photographs by Rybus. The
concept was to profile makers of all kinds, so you'll find a mix of
stories from both the more artistic side of handcrafting, like John
Bisbee's metal sculptures, to the highly practical, like a spread
on Tim Semler and Lydia Moffet, the bread-baking duo from Tinder
Hearth, the much buzzed-about Brooksville bakery."
- Portland (Maine) Press Herald
"Through [Katy Kelleher's] insightful essays and Portland
photographer Greta Rybus's compelling photos, the book paints vivid
portraits of a wide range of creative minds, from wooden
surfboard-makers in York, to a meat farmer and noodle joint
restaurateur in Portland, to a rustic campsite manager in Portage.
Within its pages, "Handcrafted Maine" gives readers a taste of a
local-first philosophy that has remained intact in Maine since long
before the 'locavore' movement began."
- Ellsworth (Maine) American
"Twenty-two fascinating portraits of artists, artisans, and
craftspeople are the focus of Handcrafted Maine. Their stories,
clearly written and paired with more than 200 compelling
photographs, tell the tale of what it takes to live and create in
Maine....Meeting these artists and artisans through this book is a
delight."
- Coastal Design
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