Olive Pierce recently donated 26 photographs from her series “Photographing a Maine Fishing Community,” to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The images will be exhibited through Jan. 17, 2016 in the Becker Gallery.

A Maine resident, photography teacher, and lifelong political activist, Pierce began a 10-year project in 1986 photographing several families in Waldoboro who have long been associated with the fishing industry.

This exhibition — curated by Sarah Haimes ’15 under the direction of Art History professor Dana Byrd — brings together a selection of those photographs and tells the story of this revealing documentary project. Pierce recently donated 26 photographs from this series to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Bowdoin College is located at 255 Maine Street in Brunswick.