Gallery Neptune is pleased to announce the opening of "Landing: Landscapes of Rural Greece" by Beatrice Hamblett, April 9 - May 3, 2008. Each year since 2002, Beatrice Hamblett has spent four months of the year documenting the environment in and around her home in Skopelos, Greece. Her dedication to the art of gelatin silver photography which she develops and prints from her darkroom in Washington, DC, has produced several bodies of work capturing desolate images of land, water and sky. Her series "Modern Archeology" which was exhibited at Neptune in March 2006, included "kalivia", deserted Greek farm houses in the landscape, gently decaying as they return to nature.
"Landing", the artist's latest series shot in the summer of 2007 introduces us to the rural Greek landscape at night, illuminated by the moon or streetlights. The artist eloquently writes: "Summer '07 in Greece was a hot one. Four heat waves with temperatures around 104