Orroli, Sardinia 2008

Sardinia, Italy’s Wild Island

The GoNOMAD Café in South Deerfield announces a new show of travel photography, shot by Donna Connor on the island of Sardinia in Spring 2008.

Sardinia is famous throughout the medical community for a particular distinction. It has the world’s highest percentage of people over age 100, and five of the world’s oldest people live in the Mediterreanean island! 

Is it the fresh, wild air, and paucity of population? Maybe the good wine, local vegetables and olive oil…Connor captures some of the local senior’s  youthful looks as well as the beauty of this remote and lightly populated island, which is about the size of Massachusetts with only 1.6 million inhabitants.

More than 25 years ago, Donna Connor made history by becoming the first female photographer to land a job in the main newsroom of the then-nearly 100-year-old Atlantic City Press.. Fresh out of college, the dynamic Connor infused the daily newspaper’s photojournalism department with a startling burst of creativity and innovativeness. Not only had she made history -- she was also capturing history for the long-established shore newspaper with a new and different set of eyes.

Before long, she’d branched out on her own, forming Donna Connor Photography (www.photoface.com) in 1981.

Donna’s love of travel has also resulted in stunning photography taken in exotic locales stretching from Scotland to North Africa and breathtaking Sardinia in April of 2008.

“I want to keep learning and exploring as a photographer,” Donna says. “Nothing about this profession ever grows old to me. There are just more and different opportunities to refine my craft and provide my clients with exceptional images.”

Donna Connor resides in Sweetwater, NJ, with her husband and two children.