When she was 8 years old, Pia Centenari-Leonard got a Brownie camera as a gift, launching a passion for photography. Now, decades later, Pia has turned to another vintage camera for her most recent series of photos. She uses a now-obsolete Polaroid Instant Camera with its on-the-spot self-developing film to create unique images that combine […]
To the Editor: When our dad (Richard Leonard) was promoted to president and CEO of the Martha’s Vineyard Cooperative Bank in 1989 (a big job for an Island boy freshly graduated from UMass), our mom (Pia Centenari-Leonard) gifted him a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson called “What Is Success?” She had framed the poem, which […]