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Courtney Platt is an internationally renowned professional photographer with 29 years experience and 8 assignments for National Geographic Magazine among his credit. Calling Grand Cayman home since 1983, he is locally renowned for his wedding, location portrait, commercial, architecture, nature and underwater photography. This is Courtney's second book.
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"Paradise Interrupted"
Photographed by Courtney Platt with text by Joanna Lawrence, is a generous 160 page, 11" hard cover coffee table book containing over 330 graphic images of the effects of Hurricane Ivan in Grand Cayman on the 11th and 12th of September, 2004. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Rotary Recovery Fund in Grand Cayman to aid in the ongoing reconstruction effort here. The book is expected to hit the shelves in the first week of September just in time for the first anniversary of the storm.
The first book signing will be at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, beginning at 5p.m. and continuing through until 8p.m. on 8 September, 2005. There will be a display of Courtney Platt’s photographs, which will also be available for sale. Refreshments will be served. His Excellency, The Governor, Mr Bruce H. Dinwiddy, CMG wrote an insightful foreword for the book. Joanna Lawrence's narrative will lend the reader a sense of her personal experience in weathering the Storm and the hardships of its immediate aftermath. Courtney Platt is a renowned professional photographer with eight assignments for National Geographic Magazine among his many credits. Driven by a sense of the importance of the moment, he made extraordinary efforts to capture visible evidence of what happened island wide during the first days and weeks after the storm. Gratefully, the book ends on a positive note as the island exhibits signs of an amazingly rapid recovery. Hurricane Ivan became a punctuation mark in the history of Grand Cayman. We now think in terms of "before Ivan" and "after Ivan". This important coffee table book will become a highly collectible visual record of Ivan's power, reminding us why each season we must prepare for the inevitable.
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