The Last Great Bay: Images of Apalachicola
Photography by Richard Bickel. Forward by Bob Bendick
Florida’s Apalachicola Bay is one of America’s last unspoiled estuaries, harboring still-healthy populations of oyster, fish and shrimp. But it is the region’s human fauna that most intrigue photojournalist Richard Bickel. His new collection, The Last Great Bay: Images of Apalachicola (Watertown Press, $39.95), is a compelling portrait of people intimately entwined with their environment. In carefully shaded black-and-white photos, oystermen and fishermen contemplate a future of dwindling shorelines and rising condos—a future that may leave no room for them. The book includes a foreword by The Nature Conservancy’s Bob Bendick.
—Louis Bayard
