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....
September is a spectacular time to enjoy all that autumn in New England has to offer, including a myriad of photographic exhibitions in and around the region. Our listings are organized geographically for your planning convenience, and we update them throughout the month, so be sure to check back for the latest...
Back in the 1970’s, the Los Angeles sun was suffused with smog. But at the beaches, the hazy marine layer would burn off over the course of the day, freshening the air to admit a crisp, blazing light. As a formerly sun-kissed denizen of Los Angeles, I spent my weekends at the ocean, playing beach volleyball,...
Artists stand on the shoulders of their mentors, a springboard to their own creative evolution. When Bell Pitkin, gallery manager at Leica Boston wanted to mount an intergenerational show centered around Boston, it was a natural choice to pay tribute to Constantine Manos, the Leica camera champion and Magnum...
At long last, summer! These are our glory days in New England, the season when everyone flocks to the region, from our sparkling coastline, Cape Cod & Islands to the pristine Berkshire, White and Green mountains. Not to mention lively festivals sprinkled from city to countryside. Whether a resident or visitor,...
Wow!! Ann Jastrab, Executive Director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California assembled a fantastic show for the 31st Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition now at the Griffin Museum of Photography. It is a poignant, creative and cohesive exhibition. The museum also presents two solo shows:...
