By Suzanne Révy I first met Emily Belz when she enrolled in the low residency MFA program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2015. A year ahead of her in the same program, I became intrigued by her work and creative process when we were assigned a shared studio space at the school. […]
Photographer Karl Baden has employed a selection of his photographs to create a unique contemporary tribute to two iconic 20th century photographers in his new book, The Americans by Car. No guideposts are necessary to enjoy the serendipitous moments he expertly nabs, but if you share Baden’s love...
I first noticed the impeccable imagery of Yorgos Efthymiadis in the Winter Solstice Show at the Griffin Museum of Photography in 2013. His color photograph of an immaculate, empty tennis court with a mountain range backdrop in bright sun had a taut symmetry that offset its airy serenity in a way that...
Boston-based photographer Molly Lamb has been garnering widespread attention with her latest project, “Ghost Stepping”. Ethereal meditations on “the reach of the past into the present”, her images have earned Lamb a place in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 19th Juried Show (judged by Kathy...
I discovered Paul Puiia’s sophisticated, eerie architectural photography during Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival in Boston last spring. Selected for the Flash Forward Undergraduate Photography Now (Part 2) exhibition, catalogue and portfolio walk, Puiia’s otherworldly nighttime photographs...
I first noticed Alyssa Minahan’s work in an exhibit this past spring at Panopticon Gallery in Boston. In a room featuring the impressive work of Stephen Sheffield’s Black & White class at the New England School of Photography (NESOP), the serene tone and sophisticated composition in both her landscapes...
At just 30 years old, Boston photographer Alicia Savage possesses remarkable clarity of vision and is earning deserved attention. She recently concluded a one-woman exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography (at satellite Digital Silver Imaging gallery, 9.23.13 – 12.3.13), for which an accompanying...
There is cause for jubilation during this dark month: a new photography gallery has come to Boston! The 555 Gallery opens today in the ever-gentrifying warehouse district of South Boston, where it shares a building with the LaMontagne Gallery (upstairs), just one block from the artist studios building,...
This is a heads up. Rick Ashley, photographer of the controversial “Michael” series, has a new body of work that upholds his tacit refusal to be pigeon-holed. In a veer to the Southern landscape, Ashley has created a cameo of the now nearly deserted downtown and outskirts of Elizabeth City, North...
Michael Joseph is a Boston-based photographer whose interest in documentary street photography has given rise to the project, “Close Strangers”, which is garnering attention for its unusual approach to portraiture. In stark contrast to capturing people unnoticed, Joseph engages individual strangers...
