Mar 09, 2008 — See The New York Times
Despite the frigid February air, a few hardy souls here are out and about. Two schoolgirls comb the rocky shore for pretty shells. A group of fishermen wade in the mud for quahogs. And Benjamin Donaldson, a 38-year-old New Haven photographer, furtively takes his first black-and-white shot of the day on Leete's Island, a quirky 150-acre Connecticut "island." Donaldson's work has always had a critical subtext, said Jeff Whetstone, a professor of art and photography at UNC and Donaldson's former darkroom partner at Yale School of Art. "In Ben's photography," he said, "humans are seen as out of place in their own habitat."
