My first trip to Monhegan Island was in the Fall of 1984. I travelled with Robert Angeloch, a distinguished artist, teacher, founder of the Woodstock School of Art and a good friend. We were joined by Mara, his wife and Paula Nelson, whom I would marry about a year later. The trip lasted barely a week, but would be followed by more than fifty trips over the next forty years. Along with a Rolleiflex, I brought a 35mm camera for color slides, several canvas boards and lots of film, drawing paper, pencils, brushes and oil paint.Monhegan is less than a mile and a half long and about ten miles off the coast of Maine.The small year-round population is mostly involved in lobstering and secondarily in tourism in the warmer months. It has had a strong attraction for artist since the early nineteen hundreds. It has inspired Rockwell Kent, Robert Henri, George Bellows, the Wyeth’s and many others. The village, on the harbor side of the island, has the utilitarian architecture typical of coastal New England and the seaward side is all rock with the highest cliffs on the East coast of the U.S.I’ve made hundreds of photographs on Monhegan: black and white, color, small, medium and large format, film and digital, and a few paintings as well. In 1997 I printed a selection of 4×5 and 8×10 negatives as platinum/palladium prints and published it as An Image of Monhegan.Paula and I visited nearly every book shop on the Maine coast selling the book and brought out a second edition in 2000. I’ve included here several pictures from that book as well as a selection of some of my favorites from over the years.