Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100Featuring original works of fine art, photography and limited-edition prints by regional and local artists. 372 Fore Street Portland, Maine 04101 (207) 874-8084 www.forestreetgallery.com Wharf Street, Winter, 1986 24" x 36" Oil on canvas, by Paul Black Featuring original works of fine art, photography and limited-edition prints by regional and local artists. 372 Fore Street Portland, Maine 04101 (207) 874-8084 www.forestreetgallery.com Monhegan Morning Paul Black 11 x 14 oil THE PLACE FOR NEW & USED BOOKS ON THE PENINSULA HOW PORTLAND DOES A BOOKSTORE Monument Square, Portland 207-772-4045 www.longfellowbooks.com Plus Cards, Journals, Gifts & Portland’s Largest Selection of Magazines Editorial Colin W. Sargent, Editor & Publisher 8 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine Seeing the Seen A selenologist studies the moon. An on- tologist is fascinated with being and nothingness. I met a pharographer once. He came from 7,000 miles away to docu- ment Maine’s lighthouses. Most extraordinarily, I’ve met him three times. His name is Fujio Mino. When he sent two gifts to our office last month (a calendar he’d shot and sparkling candies in the shape of a fish), we published his accompanying letter and I added the following tag, though I usually opt for under- statement in an editor’s note: “Pharographer Fujio Mino captures stun- ning photographic images of lighthouses across the world, many in Maine. He first vis- ited our office in the 1980s, with his star rising in the art world. A decade later, he visit- ed us again. In 1994, he sent us a postcard, followed by a visit in the 2000s, across dark oceans of time and distance. To see his extraordinary work, recognized by Fuji film for excellence, visit pharographer.com.” Maine has an embarrassment of riches with our lighthouses. We take them for granted. It takes someone like Mino, shooting for viewers in Japan, hungry for the strangeness of our lighthouses, to wake us up to their mysteries. See Maine through his eyes: • Tenants Harbor ( ) • Pemaquid Point ( ) • Nubble Light, Cape Neddick ( ) • West Quoddy Head ( ) • Marshall Point ( ) Mino’s images are crisp, stopped in time. Confident in his talent, he isn’t afraid to let oth- er elements of a photo steal the show. One of my favorites has a memorable lighthouse in the foreground, but it’s the ghostly freighter slipping out of view in the background that inspires. He “was born in Kagawa in 1963,” according to his site. “Graduated from Japan Journal- ism College (Editing Major). After years of working for an ‘ad-maker,’” he visited Yosemite, trailing after Ansel Adams. Stopping on the West Coast at a lighthouse hostel on the Pacific, he saw a poster of a Maine lighthouse and was hooked. At Portland Monthly, we value our friends who connect with us in person and by reading our pages over the years. Mino’s striking art deepens the value of seeing “ourselves as others see us”–Maine’s lighthouses in infinite recursion across a global culture. Mino leads international “tours to visit overseas lighthouses” across the Seven Seas, with our coast his sine qua non, the showstopper ( , pron.: shōsutoppā). The root of “pharographer” is Pharos, the name of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, designed by Sostratus. Destroyed by an earthquake, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.