Images from a Year on Easter island

by James Craig

ISBN: 978-0-615-52442-9

Self Published: July 2012

224 pages, HB, smythe sewn, 10x11, heavy paper

Text in both English and Spanish

Signed, Limited Edition of 500

Includes original signed print and DVD of “Extras”

(Rapa Nui Screensaver, PDF of book for iPad, and more)

$100

From the Jacket:

“The images in this volume are the end product of over a year on Easter Island, and well over twenty thousand exposures. The plan was simple, maroon ourselves for a year on the most isolated bit of inhabited land on the planet, where I would amass a portfolio of B&W images while my wife painted. This is my portrait of Rapa Nui, a tribute to an astounding place and a beautiful people.”

Description: 

Each of 98 tritone images is accompanied by a 250 word anecdote. Image titles are in Rapanui, English and Spanish. Plus: island map, thumbnail index of the images with exposure and original print data, glossary of Rapanui terms, historical outline, and details about the project and life on the Island.

Short excerpt:

“Rapa Nui ~ Easter Island ~ Isla de Pascua

Rapa Nui is a small island occupying just 64 square miles of ocean and rising less than 1700 feet at its highest point. After it was ‘discovered’ on Easter day 1722, it took the west another fifty years to find it again. Yet almost a millennium before, hundreds of settlers arrived in two large canoes, confidently following the lead of the first Polynesian explorers who happened upon this tiny speck in the Pacific ocean, over two thousand miles from their starting point……”

About the author:

Jim Craig lives with his wife Nan in Havre de Grace, MD, where the Susquehanna River meets the Chesapeake Bay. He took up B&W photography in his early twenties to have something to do while his wife painted. Since then he has amassed a considerable portfolio of local scenics, as well as images from surrounding states, a one-month project hiking and photographing Acadia National Park in Maine, north to the tip of Nova Scotia and west to the Badlands. Many of the images in this volume were featured in a one-man show at the Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert in Hanga Roa, Easter Island in 2008.

For more information about the Moon has been Eaten, special offers, included images, Island Blog, where original work can be seen, etc.:   http://jamescraigphotography.com 

email: jcraig4357@gmail.com