“Let’s dance, for fear your grace should fall Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all Let’s sway, you could look into my eyes Let’s sway, under the moonlight, the serious moonlight.” ~ from ”Let’s Dance” by David Bowie I do not know what I was expecting when I wandered into the Griffin...
In the 1930’s, the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson famously criticized Ansel Adams and Edward Weston for "photographing rocks while the world is going to pieces." And yet, Adams used his "rock pictures" to advocate for conservation. The environment is buckling under the pressures of human activity,...
Summer is for explorations! Get yours started right with these exciting, blissful, and challenging photography exhibits and events all over metro Boston and New England. As always, we have listed our features geographically for your planning convenience and encourage you to check back regularly for ongoing...
More than anything, Can You See Me? is a celebration of unsung heroines, the women whose identity, determination and nurturing strengthen the fabric of society. Although everyone from power brokers to plebeians appears happy to acknowledge that women’s contributions are far-reaching, those achievements...
My mortality has been a more forceful presence since turning sixty a couple of years ago. The ephemeral nature of life is not as abstract an idea as it was in my twenties. I thought I had all the time in the world back then, but the decades have spun past with dizzying speed. And yet, I take comfort...
Those April showers worked! As the world continues to rage, masses of pastel pink, chartreuse green and bridal white blooms are proclaiming the rites of spring. It seems fitting that a profusion of photography exhibits and events are also escorting the month of May. We have listed these geographically...
With our Presidential election looming, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA meets the contentious issue of immigration head-on in its current exhibit “Traces of Existence.” Five photographers from Latin America, some of whom are US citizens, offer their moving personal explorations...
Did you know that the earliest surviving photograph is a landscape? Taking inspiration from that early example, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s 1829 “heliograph” of the courtyard at his family's home in France, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts presents a lively new exhibition featuring a selection...
In the natural world, pollination makes a dash for the future. Spring unfurls its signs of rebirth and energizes our winter weary souls. Such transformations are a constant in the cycle of life, a truth that continually catapults the imagination of photographer Olivia Parker. In her latest collaboration...
April has sprouted a bunch of invigorating landscape exhibits! We feature them here, along with other alluring photographic shows and events around metro Boston and New England. As always, we present them geographically for your planning convenience and urge you to check back during the month, as we update...
