In 2006, with threats of impending global warming, nuclear destruction, and terrorist annihilation Janine Coyne’s camera focuses on a place from the past, while simultaneously symbolic of the present and future. This timeless experience through Coyne’s lens is felt through her images of earth, land and sea.

Greco Roman Ruins, Solunto(2001) is largely composed of repetitions and patterns, that reverberates a haunting echo, thereby evoking an unsettling stance concerning the viewer’s separation from the earth. This photograph may be interpreted as a symbol for our contemporary predicament of estrangement and the collective memories that it awakens.

When Coyne pulls in the lens more closely to explore human interactions the unspoken communication between photographer and sitter becomes a powerful experience for the viewer. In her environmental portraiture, there remains an unspoken dialogue —one in which the subject has quietly agreed to be included.