Miles, Music & Memories: An Evening with Henry Horenstein — Artist Talk, Book Signings & Film Screening

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome celebrated photographer Henry Horenstein for an unforgettable in-person evening of stories, images, and film.

Program Highlights:

– Artist Talk & Book Presentation — Celebrate the launch of Miles and Miles of Texas and the 20th anniversary reprint of Honky Tonk.
– Film Screening — Enjoy Spoke, a 20-minute short capturing the spirit of the open road and the communities Henry has encountered.

“Miles and Miles of Texas is a personal nod to Lone Star culture, history, landscape, and most of all, the people I met along the way—‘some of the friendliest people you’ll ever see.’” — Henry Horenstein

Set for release in September 2025, Miles and Miles of Texas gathers nearly 100 of Henry’s photographs taken across Texas between 2021–2024, along with select images from earlier years. The book is a vivid celebration of the people, places, and culture that have inspired Henry for decades, infused with his signature warmth, humor, and eye for the everyday moments that tell unforgettable stories.

Alongside this new work, Henry is reintroducing his long out-of-print classic Honky Tonk, originally published in 2005. Featuring portraits of country musicians from the 1970s — many captured while working with Rounder Records — the reprint arrives just in time to sit side-by-side with Miles and Miles of Texas, linking past and present in his ongoing love affair with music and Americana.

Whether you come for the music, the photography, or the stories, you’ll leave inspired by Henry’s unmatched ability to capture the heart of a place — and the soul of the people who live there.

Event Details

Date: One session on October 15, 2025

Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EDT

Format: In-person, at the Griffin Museum (67 Shore Rd. Winchester, MA 01890)

Event Fee: FREE for members (RSVP required) / $10 for non-members.
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Level: Open to All!

About Henry Horenstein

Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s.

He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with legends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

Henry’s work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 35 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Honky Tonk, Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography. His Shoot What You Love serves both as a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. His latest monographs, Speedway1972 was published by Stanley/Barker (UK) in 2022 and We Sort of People by Kehrer Verlag (Ger) in 2023.

In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground. He is currently in production on Marksville, LA, a film about Cajun Louisiana.

Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.