One of photography’s oldest methods of printing, the cyanotype, has been enjoying something of a renaissance over the past eight to ten years. We seem to be in the golden age of cyanotype, and artists have been expanding on the possibilities of this straightforward method to record light and shadow....
Anyone who worked in editorial or advertising photography during the film era peered at countless slides through a loupe over a light table. Backlit transparency film possessed a seductive luminosity. Clint Baclawski has long been fascinated by that luminosity and has employed photographs wrapped around...
By Suzanne Révy and Elin Spring There is a strength in numbers. By all accounts, Judy Sherrod was a force for creativity. In early 2014 she invited artists to a retreat in Port Aransas, Texas located on Mustang Island near Corpus Cristi. She set the stage for “show and tell” and what she described...
A dear friend gave me a hand-crafted ceramic batter bowl with a wooden whisk as a wedding gift. A few years after my wedding, I moved north and she moved south. Between our distance and the day to day of work and family obligations, we lost touch for a time. But I always felt the emotional resonance...
Once again, the summer has slipped away and we find ourselves embracing - or perhaps bracing for - a return to more structured schedules. Perhaps a bit of both. To mark the change of seasons, we have reaped a crop of engaging new photography exhibits and events throughout the Boston metro region and beyond....
We seem to have turned a corner on summer. The days are getting noticeably shorter and the nights are cooler. A transition is underway as we progress through the year to fall. It brings to mind the melancholy I felt as a child in the final weeks of summer when camp was over before school began. Late...
Are you in the mood for some bright surprises? Then "EXPOSURE 2022: The 26th Annual PRC Juried Members Exhibition" is sure to gratify. The point of EXPOSURE is to showcase a brief portfolio of new work by emerging and mid-career photographers, juried by an esteemed leader in the photographic community....
In our VIEWFINDER, feast on a tasty curation of humorous images inspired by the sage words of René Magritte: "Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible" (Photo ©Arno Rafael Minkkinen, courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston)
I have been fortunate to live near the ocean my entire life and it still fills me with awe. The way the sea conspires with the atmosphere seems like a metaphor for life itself: sparkling and glorious, treacherous and threatening, everything in between and changeable from one temper to another without...
Like a stone pitched into calm waters, the pandemic is still propagating ripple effects. Not that we ever had calm waters or that the consequences of Covid-19 are mere ripples. More like a stormy sea voyage. Photographer Gail Samuelson and the poet/photographer team of Dawn Surratt & Sal Taylor Kydd...
