The notion of “Homeland” has long been used as a political device, but on an individual level, our feelings are very personal. Maria Gutu, winner of the 2024 Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, addresses this dichotomy in her solo exhibition at Leica Gallery Boston. Within the political framework...
“I've been scoping ya dudes, ya’ll ain't been working like I do I'll outwork you; it hurts you You claim I’m stealing jobs, though Peter Piper claimed he picked them, he just underpaid Pablo But there ain't a paper trail when you're living in the shadows We're America's ghost writers, the credit's...
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....
People are complicated. Isn't that what makes us so mysterious and captivating? From the moment of it's invention, photography has offered artists enthralling ways to explore identity. Tommy Kha, one of the bright, young lights in photography, has created fresh and inventive ways to address identity...
Street photography holds up a mirror to ourselves and gives us permission to stare. As both society and photography continually transform, the mirror reflects that, too. In “Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography,” Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs at MFA, Boston, presents a five-decade...
Frances F. Denny’s picture of an elegant Black woman with dangling red earrings in a crisp white sweater-dress and eating a sandwich at a wooden booth in the Henry Public Saloon, is simply sublime. Her subject’s gaze is direct, as if to say, “I am present.” Not so long ago in some parts of this...
Photography has long taken the pulse of the times and today is no exception. Regional exhibitions focusing on past and present create interactions that offer insightful perspectives. Whether you engage with art as a powerful salve or a form of resistance to cultural dissonance, you will find October...
EXPOSURE 2025, the Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition sponsored by the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) in Cambridge, MA is designed as a way for viewers to get a deeper sense of an artist’s vision by displaying several of their pieces. Although calls for submission are always open-themed, I sometimes...
Don’t you love playing with toys, especially those that absorb your thoughts and let your imagination soar? Since 2013, that has been the idea behind the Somerville Toy Camera Festival (STCF), champions of serendipitous imagery created using low-fidelity toy cameras such as the quirky plastic Holga....
Aren’t your pictures supposed to say it all? Ideally, but written cues can offer viewers helpful entry points into your work. And here’s a benefit that might surprise you: just as making images cultivates your eye, writing can help you refine your artistic vision. Aligning your visual and written...
