New England Portfolio Reviews Archives

We are thrilled to start of 2022 with the New England Portfolio Reviews in March of 2022!

Since 2009 The New England Portfolio Reviews (NEPR) have been co-produced by the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA and the Photographic Resource Center (PRC), Cambridge, Massachusetts with the mission of bringing reviewers and photographers from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one’s work. This NEPR is an online event to be held on March 11-13, 2022 with a keynote lecture by Meghann Riepenhoff – March 11th at 7pm.

NEPR serves photographers who are just embarking on their careers and more established photographers hoping to reach new audiences. The online format allows for an expansion of participants in volume and in location including reviewers such gallerists, book publishers, museum professionals, critics, educators and advisors from all over the world who provide guidance and potential opportunities to grow artist practices.

Of the 90+ participating photographers, ten are emerging photographers that will receive full scholarships. We believe that providing professional opportunities to emerging photographers is key to keeping the industry strong and active.

Here is a list of current reviewers – more are being added, and all are subject to change.

Camilo Alvarez, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Ernsto Bazan, Bazan Photos Publishing, Vera Cruz, Mexico
Emily Belz, Photographer and Educator
Makeda Best, Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums
Nancy Burns, Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Worcester, MA
David Carol & Ashly Stohl, Peanut Press, LA & NY
Alyssa Coppelman, Photo Editor & Consultant, Austin, TX
Carrie Cushman, Edith Dale Monson Director/Curator of the Joseloff and Silpe Galleries, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Karen Davis, Gallerist, Davis Orton Gallery
David DeMelim, Managing Director, RI Center for Photographic Arts
Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books, Baltimore, MD
Michael Foley, Foley Gallery, New York
Donna Garcia, Executive Director, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta Georgia
Bill Gaskins, Director of Photography + Media & Society MFA, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, Center for Fine Art photography Fort Collins, CO
Lonnie Graham, Executive Director, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco
Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Karen Harvey, Shutterhub, London, UK
Tailyr Irvine, Indigenous Photograph, Documentary Photographer
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Frances Jakubek, Director of Exhibitions, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY
Caleb Cain Marcus, Roving Exhibitions Editor, Damiani Publishing, NY, NY
Melanie McWhorter, Independent Photography Consultant
Bree Lamb, Fraction Magazine, Albuquerque, NM
Arlette Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Anne Kelly, Photo-Eye, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kirchoff, Analog Forever Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Kopeikin, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kirsten Rian, Independent Curator, Oregon
J. Sybylla Smith, Independent Consultant, Boston MA
Aline Smithson, Founder, Lenscratch, Los Angeles, CA
Susan Spiritus, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Irvine, CA
Elin Spring, What Will You Remember, Boston, MA
Dana Stirling & Yoav Friedlander, Float Magazine
Mary Virginia Swanson, Educator, Author and Entrepreneur in the field of photography, and a respected advisor to artists and arts organizations.
Lauren Szumita, Independent Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Barbara Tannenbaum, Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography, Cleveland Art Museum
Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Joanne Junga Yang, Artistic Director, Korea International Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea

Reviewer biographies and areas of interest will be online soon.

The cost of 4 portfolio reviews is $200. The event is SOLD OUT, and we are accepting waiting list registration. Registration is now open for the waiting list only. The possibility for additional reviews is available on a day to day basis during the reviews. All attendees will be alerted to those openings.

We will provide an artist index for download of all of the participants of the portfolio review that we will make available to participating artists, our reviewers and the public. The Artist Index for 2020 is available online.