Wine Dark Sea is a compelling document of photographer and writer Martin
Cole's fascination with Sicily. The often bleak and unremitting Sicilian
landscape is at the core of this book, conjuring a brutal beauty in a powerful
series of colour photographs accompanied by text written by Cole and his
travelling companion and brother Adrian, an historian. Personal experiences are
projected as a potential site for historical and cultural commentary while The
Mafia, still continuing their hold in daily Sicilian life, act as the thread
that ties each experience and observation together.