Rob Ostermaier
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Drone photography of Brown’s Bay in Gloucester Wednesday January 8, 2026.
Consociate Media will present Working Waterfronts, a powerful photography exhibition by the firm’s award-winning photojournalist Rob Ostermaier, at York & Main, an art gallery and vintage shop along Gloucester’s Main Street.
The exhibition opens with a public reception Sunday, March 8 from 1 to 3 p.m. and runs through March 29.
A portion of proceeds from exhibition sales will benefit Hold Fast, a Gloucester-based nonprofit organization that brings veterans onto the water to crab and oyster as a therapeutic approach to treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
In Working Waterfronts, Ostermaier captures the many ways people live with and depend on the water — working on it, living beside it, drawing beauty from it and being sustained by it. From the back of a working boat to the quiet edge of a shoreline at sunrise, the images on display celebrate a region shaped by tides, tradition and change.
The photographs are part of a broader storytelling initiative led by Consociate Media to document and elevate the voices of people who live, work and persevere along Virginia’s rural coastline.
Through intentional visual journalism and community-based storytelling, the Consociate Media team seeks to preserve the authenticity of working waterfronts while highlighting the resilience, heritage and evolving realities of coastal life.
Each photograph reflects more than a single moment. Together, they tell deeper stories of livelihood, legacy and the quiet strength required to survive and thrive where land meets water.
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Consociate Media I 1467 George Washington Mem. Highway, Gloucester Point I consociate.marketing
Hold Fast I holdfast.vet
