Publicity
Creative Maine
January - February 2022
Veiled Flowers
“Demystifying Nature is best left to the artists, who explore it through words, songs, poetry and the other arts.”
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
February 5, 2021
The Antidote
I chose a day back in October that was particularly windy and sunny. You can see the wind blowing the leaves of the trees. I stood in the middle of the bridge, facing south, in Deering Oaks Park and standing in the same spot turned at 1/8th intervals to photograph a panoramic view, composed of eight images. Being left-handed, I turned to the right and shot from right around to the left.
The park appears to have a dystopian atmosphere these days, where maybe you can catch only one person walking their dog during the day. They never filled up the ravine with water, this summer, for the children to play in. Nature keeps growing and now dying, living the same seasonal cycles it always has but there is no one to see it. I felt so empty and alive at the same time. I saw nothing and yet everything.
East - Deering Oaks Park (From the series Kodak Instamatic X-15F - Deering Oaks Park, Portland, Maine) (The whole series of 8 images was published).
Maine Arts Journal
Fall 2020
Members’ Showcase: C E Morse, Ruth Sylmor, Amy Bellezza
“Amy Bellezza evokes the temptation to break the rules of social isolation and the obsession with tracking the progress of the disease with numbers—and the risks such data present.”
Maine Arts Journal
Fall 2020
Pandemic Showcase – Ruth Sylmor, Amy Bellezza, Bob Farrell, Joshua Ferry, Peter Buotte
Portland Press Herald
2019
Portland photographer organizes a local ‘Photo Walk’ for Saturday
Photographers in Portland will join a worldwide community focusing their lens on their cities.