By Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy
As our glorious autumn days veer into winter and darkness descends in earnest, we find ourselves seeking out the emotional nourishment of light. Since we think photography’s magic is a brilliant way to feed the soul, we invite you to find your light in these exhibits and events around Boston and beyond. As always, we have arranged our listings geographically and invite you to check back during the month for updates and additions.
BOSTON PROPER
“Cuenca (Crowded Bus)” by Cristobal Hara (Spanish, born in 1946), about 1973 Photograph, gelatin silver print. Gift of Peter Soriano, © Cristóbal Hara, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – “Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography” presents a five-decade global slice of street photography that brings us up to the present. This gem-like show features the images of twenty-five photographers drawn from the museum’s collection. Their viewpoints illuminate individual and collective responses to socio-political changes, but also the ways in which people’s attitudes and gestures remain familiar over time. On view in the Herb Ritts Gallery through July 26th, 2026.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/faces-in-the-crowd-street-photography-at-museum-of-fine-arts-boston/
For more information, go to: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/faces-in-the-crowd-street-photography
Feature Image: “Tenderness: Tamara, a village woman with her best friend, having a moment of peace” Sofia, 2024, from the Homeland series by Maria Gutu, courtesy of the artist and Leica Gallery Boston.
Leica Gallery Boston – Landlocked between Romania and Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova has seen one third of its population emigrate in recent years, especially its younger citizens. Photographer Maria Gutu’s series Homeland, is “a poetic quest for roots, for a home whose meaning always changes.” Her solo show will be on view from November 7th, 2025 – January 4th, 2026, with an Opening Reception on Friday, November 7th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
For more information about the exhibit and associated programming, go to: https://www.instagram.com/leicagalleryboston/
“Susie, Maria” from the series The First Ones in Line by Yorgos Efthymiadis, courtesy of the artist and ICA Boston.
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston – We’ve all seen pictures of striking laborers, but what are they like individually? What about them gives them the courage to challenge authority, bring people together, and lead their coworkers out on strike? With characteristic empathy, Yorgos Efthymiadis explores the unseen side of workers, in and around their homes and often with their families. As one of four winners of the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, Efthymiadis is exhibiting photographs from this project, The First Ones in Line, along with his previous series, The Lighthouse Keepers. Established to “nurture and recognize exceptional Boston-area artists,” the Foster Prize celebrates recipients with this annual ICA/Boston exhibition, on view through January 19th, 2026.
For more information, go to: https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/2025-james-and-audrey-foster-prize/
From the series and book (L’Artiere) “Grace” by Scott Offen, courtesy of the artist and Panopticon Gallery.
Panopticon Gallery – In his solo show and recently published book Grace, Scott Offen collaborates with his longtime partner of the same name to examine the dynamics of their relationship “at the intersection of the real, the symbolic, and the psychological.” Functioning as a character in the work, scenes are set in the natural landscape of rural New England. On view through December 2nd, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.panopticongallery.com/
To read our review of Offen’s book: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/book-reviews-dona-ann-mcadams-black-box-a-photographic-memoir-nancy-richards-farese-i-still-speak-southern-in-my-head-scott-offen-grace/
Photograph by Arno Rafael Minkkinen, winner of the William Klein Photography Prize 2025, courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.
Robert Klein Gallery – A group show, Recent Arrivals: Expanding the Collection, features work by Jim Dow, Arno Minkkinen (photo), Kenro Izu, Francesca Woodman, Shelia Metzner, Irving Penn, Tom Baril, Arne Svenson, Rania Matar, Jeffrey Milstein, Cai Dongdong, Thomas Sauvin (Beijing Silvermine), Stephen Wilkes, and Sebãstiao Salgado. On view in the gallery through November 25th, 2025.
For more information, go to: https://www.robertkleingallery.com/
SOWA – South End Arts District
“Accidental Evidence” (Detail) book cover, offset, 2025 by Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari, courtesy of the artists and Kingston Gallery, Boston.
Kingston Gallery – Mike Mandel & Chantal Zakari: Accidental Evidence consists of the original prints resulting from “make-ready” accidents discovered during the offset re-printing of Evidence, published nearly 50 years ago by Mandel and Larry Sultan. While the original was a carefully organized sequence of facing pages featuring photographs sourced from scientific, industrial, police, military and other archives, Accidental Evidence is the result of chance intersections that occur when “make-ready” sheets of different signatures are printed multiple times. Individual original press prints and the entire original set are available at the gallery. On view November 6th – November 30th, 2025, the artists will be signing books at the Opening Reception on Friday, November 7th from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information: https://www.kingstongallery.com/center-mandel-zakari-2025
SOMERVILLE & CAMBRIDGE
The Curated Fridge Autumn 2025 Show
The Curated Fridge (TCF), Somerville – For ten years, TCF has invited us to celebrate actual, physical fine art photography curated by genuine jurors and installed on an unassuming kitchen refrigerator. The Autumn 2025 Curated Fridge Show features photographs selected by jurors Emily Belz and Jennifer McClure on the front gallery, with Lenscratch Student Portfolio Prize winners and Honorable Mentions on the side and satellite (aka stove) galleries. Join the Opening Reception with juror Emily Belz, TCF host Yorgos Efthymiadis and contributing photographers for conversation and snacks at 281 Medford Street, Somerville, MA on Sunday, November 9th, 2025 from 4:00 – 6:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.thecuratedfridge.com/Fridge-Shows-1/Autumn-2025
Bridge Gallery, Cambridge – Photographer Annette Bonnier explores the unsettling perception in India of elephants as both a work animal and spiritual symbol in her solo exhibit, Of Elephants and Men: India’s Unique Relationship. On view from November 22nd – December 27th, 2025, there will be an Opening Reception with the artist on Saturday, November 22nd from 5:00 – 8:00pm. She will be signing copies of her book “India’s Elephants” at the opening.
For more information, go to: https://www.bridge.photos/shows
“Parallel Lives II” 2016 from the series Castaway by TRES, courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge – Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic presents work by Mexican artists Ilana Boltvinik and Rodrigo Viñas, who together form the collective TRES, recipients of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The bilingual photographic exhibition documents their 2016 journey along the beaches of Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania, where they collected and photographed varied debris that had washed up from places as far away as China. Their images, many presented in macro scale, evoke archaeology, marine biology, and cartography, inviting viewers to ponder the natural landscapes and the stark, unnatural objects scattered across them. Exhibit curator Ilisa Barbash emphasizes that “rather than producing a simple diatribe about the environment, TRES plays with the sizes, shapes, and colors of familiar castaway items, inviting us to see their beauty and attempt to make sense of them.” On view through April 6th, 2026.
For more information, go to: https://peabody.harvard.edu/castaway-afterlife-plastic
THE BURBS
“#180” by Rachel Loischild, courtesy of the artist, A Yellow Rose Project and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester – The year 2020 marked the centennial of the 19th amendment to the Constitution giving (most) women the right to vote. In the 19th century, women wearing yellow roses in Tennessee awaited the roll call to hear men cast a vote in favor of or against the right for women to vote. It would, of course, take longer for women of color to earn that same right. To commemorate this centennial, artists Meg Griffiths and Frances Jakubek invited over one hundred photographers from across the country to respond, reflect and react to this important milestone. This collaborative effort known as A Yellow Rose Project will be installed in all three galleries of the museum and a robust series of programs are planned. On view from through November 30th, 2025.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/a-yellow-rose-project-group-show-at-the-griffin-museum-of-photography-in-winchester-ma/
For more information and related programing: https://griffinmuseum.org/show/ayrp/
“Constellations XXIV, Verplanck, NY” by Tommy Kha, 2024, courtesy of the artist, Higher Pictures, Brooklyn, NY and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover – Tommy Kha is the second recipient of the biannual Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. Prize in support of living artists. In his first solo museum show, Tommy Kha: Other Things Uttered, he pays homage to the Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha who, like Kha, explores themes of translation and mistranslation in the sometimes fragmented identities of immigrants. On view through January 25th, 2026.
NOTE: Also on view, “Family Portrait” featuring photography from the Addison’s rich archives through January 4th, 2025 and a large selection of landscape photographs in a multi-media show called “Captive Lands” on view through January 18th, 2025
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/tommy-kha-other-things-uttered-at-the-addison-gallery-of-american-art-andover-ma/
For more information: https://addison.andover.edu/exhibition/hayes-prize-2025-tommy-kha/
“Generations IV” by Sonya Tanae Fort, 2025, courtesy of the artist and the Danforth Museum of Art at Framingham State University.
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham – With the largest concentration of people from Cape Verde in Brockton, Massachusetts, photographer Sonya Tanae Fort has probed her familial connections to the island nation from her home near Boston, while also exploring the islands of Maio and Fogo. Her soulful black and white images resonate with deep kinship and abiding love. Sonya Tanae Fort: I See You is on view through January 11th, 2026.
For more information: https://danforth.framingham.edu/exhibition/sonya-tanae-fort-i-see-you/
From “The Gleanings” by Joetta Maue, courtesy of the artist.
RSM Art Gallery at Bentley Library, Bentley University, Waltham – Joetta Maue’s The Gleanings weaves together photography, installation and embroidery in homage to the everyday details where transcendent meanings hide in plain sight. Maue seeks to find the rhymes of life through light, simple gestures and quiet contemplation. On view through November 25th, 2025.
For more information: https://www.bentley.edu/library/art-gallery
Courtesy of the Davis Museum, Wellesley College.
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley – Ilse Bing came to prominence during a seminal time in the development of the history of photography, with the rise of 35mm photography, which exerted a powerful impact on the photo-essay and introduced groundbreaking surrealist works made through solarization and photograms. The World’s of Ilse Bing, curated by Dr. Carrie Cushman, Director of the Bates College Museum of Art, and Curatorial Fellow Linda Wyatt Gruber (Wellesley ’66), is organized geographically according to the three cities where Bing lived. It brings her work into conversation with her creative influences and with those who she influenced in the worlds of modern art. On view through December 14th, 2025.
For more information: https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum
Installation view of the same woman in her dream job, from the series Bewitched (2001-ongoing) by Jung Yeondoo, courtesy of the artist and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. (Photo by Elin Spring)
Peabody Esssex Museum (PEM), Salem – As part of their Korean art bonanza, PEM presents Building Dreams, South Korean artist Jung Yeondoo’s photographic and video investigations into his people’s dreams and aspirations. In his series Bewitched, subjects pose identically in side-by-side scenes picturing what they do versus what they want to do. In the series Evergreen Towers, Yeondoo observes the individuality and personalities of families living in identical units of generic high rise buildings. On view through January 25th, 2026.
To read our review: https://www.whatwillyouremember.com/korean-photographer-jung-yeondoo-building-dreams-show-at-peabody-essex-museum-salem-ma/
For more information, go to: https://www.pem.org/exhibitions/jung-yeondoo-building-dreams
ROAD TRIP
Rhode Island
Courtesy of the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art (RICPA), Providence – The Sixth Annual Juried Spotlight Members’ Exhibition features projects by six members, juried by MFA Boston curator Karen Haas. Exhibiting photographers are Diane Bennett, Richard Cohen, Linda Hammett Ory, Joni Lohr, Gail Samuelson and Kaya Sanan. On view through November 14th, 2025. 
Coming next to RICPA – An exploration of new ways to view the environment around us, Landscapes: Real or Imagined, a group show juried by Cara Weston, will be on view from November 20th – December 12th, 2025, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, November 20th from 5:00 – 8:00pm.
For more information: https://www.riphotocenter.org
Connecticut
Sculptor Darrell Petit’s “Circle of Life” photographed by Sean Kernan, from the series and book Darrell Petit in Stone (2024), courtesy of the artists.
The Study at Yale, New Haven – Light & Stone commemorates the 20-year collaboration between Darrell Petit, creator of monumental sculptures, and photographer Sean Kernan, whose images trace Petit’s enigmatic creative process as it evolves from an idea to cutting stone from a quarry to its placement as a sculpture in the landscape. Kernan’s inspiring photographic perspectives explore Petit’s stone works in changing light and weather to reveal the ways sculpture comes alive in the environment. Kernan’s photographs are accompanied by a series of Petit’s smaller works that echo his large-scale installations. On view from November 21st – December 28th, 2025, there will be an Opening Reception with the artists on Friday, November 21st from 4:00 – 6:00pm.
For more information, go to: https://www.thestudyatyale.com/Culture2/Aisling-Gallery/Light-and-Stone
“Saint Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, MN” attributed to Alexander Hesler and Joel Whitney, sixth plate Daguerrotype, from the Greg French Collection, courtesy of the Wadsworth-Atheneum.
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford – Invented in France by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the Daguerrotype became widely used for portraiture in the 1840’s, but a few early photographic practitioners such as Sam Bemis and James Presley Ball made landscapes with the difficult process. The Scenic Daguerrotype in America 1840-1860 showcases 83 precious examples from a private collection offering a rare look at the 19th century American landscapes. On view through March 22nd, 2026.
For more information: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/on-view/scenic-daguerreotype/
From the exhibition “Photographic Drawings” by Gerald Incandela, courtesy of the artist and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
Also on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford – Gerald Incandela uses a unique darkroom process to blend photography, drawing and painting. In Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings the artist creates abstract forms, shapes and imagery to create rich and painterly compositions. On view through March 8th, 2026.
For more information: https://www.thewadsworth.org/explore/on-view/gerald-incandela/
Left) Gene Pelham (1909–2004), Reference Photographs for Going and Coming, 1947, Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 30, 1947, Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust, ST.1976.2992; ST.1976.2993 © Norman Rockwell Family Agency. All rights reserved.
(Right) Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), Going and Coming, 1947, Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 30, 1947, Oil on canvas, Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust, NRACT.1973.009. © SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. CurtisLicensing.com. All rights reserved.
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain – Norman Rockwell: From Camera to Canvas brings together the photographic studies and ephemera that Rockwell referenced for his many illustrations over a forty year career. With over seventy photographs, tear sheets and paintings, visitors will find how this detailed-oriented illustrator used photographs to fine tune the expressive qualities of each painting. On view through February 15th, 2026.
For more information: https://nbmaa.org
New Hampshire
“Alae with Mirror” by Rania Matar courtesy of the artist and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, purchased through the Edward, Julia, Victoria, and Christopher Hansen Fund for Photographic Acquisitions and the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker ’58 Acquisition Fund; 2020 © Rania Matar
Hood Museum, Dartmouth- Drawing on recent acquisitions and their permanent holdings, Visual Kinship mines photography’s ability to shape our notions of family and place. Co-curated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography and Thy Phu, Distinguished Professor of Arts, Culture and Media, the show aims to show how we relate to the land and one another, and how we might care for others. On view through November 29th, 2025.
For more information: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/exhibitions/visual-kinship
Maine
“Dust” by Pia Paulina Guilmoth, from the book and exhibition The Haunted: Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England, courtesy of the artist and Speedwell Contemporary.
Moss Galleries, Falmouth – This exhibition celebrates the launch of a limited edition art book called The Haunted: Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England. Edited by Jocelyn Lee and published by Speedwell Contemporary, it features photography and poetry that responds to themes of place and the spirit of New England. Participating photographers include Tad Beck, Tabitha Bernard, Barbara Bosworth, Neville Caulfield, Caleb Charland, Jed Devine, Smith Galtney, Kate Greene, Pia-Paulina Guilmoth, Tonee Harbert, Cig Harvey, Dylan Hausthor, David Hilliard, Jocelyn Lee, Amanda Marchand, Leah Sobsey, Emily Sheffer, Peter Shellenberger, Wendy Small, Cheryle St. Onge, and Shoshannah White. The exhibition will be on view through November 29th, 2025.
For more information: https://www.elizabethmossgalleries.com
The Haunted: Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England, courtesy of Speedwell Contemporary.
Light Manufacturing, Cassidy Point, Portland – A second exhibition to celebrate The Haunted: Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England will be on view through December 1st, 2025.
For more information: https://www.cassidypoint.com/light-manufacturing-studio
Vermont
“Darrell Petit Kiss at Stony Creek Quarry” photographed by Sean Kernan, from the series and book Darrell Petit in Stone (2024), courtesy of the artists.
Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland – This version of Light & Stone runs concurrently with exhibition at The Study at Yale in CT. In celebration of the 20-year collaboration between sculptor Darrell Petit and Sean Kernan, it features some of Petit’s monumental works in the landscape and Kernan’s photographs that follow his creative process from quarrying to installation Their partnership brings viewers on a journey between the two media, using the ephemeral nature of light and photography to document the sheer size and permanence of these granite sculptures. On view through mid-January, 2026.
For more information, go to: https://carvingstudio.org/blogs/news/gallery-opening-light-and-stone-by-darrell-petit-and-sean-kernan
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