New England Portfolio Review | NEPR 2024 (ONLINE)

The Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) are once again teaming up to bring you two days of portfolio reviews this spring

Join us ONLINE for a full weekend of conversations with curators, gallerists and industry professionals.

Bulk tickets now SOLD OUT.

Friday April 5th  – Keynote Event on Zoom with Accra Shepp

Saturday April 6th & 7th – One-on-One ONLINE Reviews

The April 5th Keynote Speaker is Accra Shepp, photographer and writer, based in New York where he teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Shepp’s images have been exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums such as the African American Museum, Philadelphia, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum just to name a few. His work is the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and the New York Review of Books.

Since 2009 NEPR has been co-produced by the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center (PRC) with the mission of bringing reviewers and photographers together from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one’s work. NEPR serves photographers who are just embarking on their careers, and more established photographers, all hoping to reach new audiences and gain fresh perspective on their work. The online format allows for an expansion of participants in volume and in location including reviewers such as gallerists, book publishers, museum professionals, critics, educators and advisors from all over the world who provide guidance and potential opportunities to grow artist practices.

Each participant will have five ONLINE (5) 20 minute reviews in either a morning session (9.00am to 12pm) or the two afternoon sessions 12pm – 3pm or 3pm – 6pm (EST)Morning Session | 9.00 am to 12pm Afternoon Sessions | 12pm – 3.00 pm / 3pm – 6pm (EST)

NOTE:

Registrants who submitted deposits will be invoiced for their second payment March 1st. This is due by March 5th.

The document for listing reviewer preference will be sent to enrolled participants March 10. It is due back March 16.

PRICING – GMP/PRC MEMBERS $300 / NON MEMBERS $350 for FIVE (5) 20 minute reviews

To highlight these talented attendees, we will create an online exhibition and online catalog with contact/social media information TBA.

This years reviewers: This is the confirmed list. This list is subject to change, and some reviewers may have last minute conflicts. We do our best to keep the list up to date.

Museum Professionals, Curators and Non Profit Spaces

David DeMelim, Founder and Managing Director, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI

Draženka Jalšić Ernečić, Senior Curator, Koprivnica Museum Koprivnica, Croatia

Muema Lombe, Former Board Member, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA

Ben McBride, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX

Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

C. Meier, Exhibitions Manager, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

Michael Pannier, Founder & Director SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

Carolyn Russo, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC

Frank D. Yamrus, Board Member, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Gallerists

Mia Dalglish, Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN

Arlette Kayafas, Owner, Gallery Kayafas, Boston MA

Paul Kopeikin, Owner, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Geoffrey Koslov, Koslov Larsen Gallery, Houston, TX

Susan Spiritus, Owner, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Irving, CA

Lisa Woodward, Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN

Independent Consultants

Elizabeth Avedon, Designer, Curator & Writer, New York, NY

Alyssa Ortega Coppelman, Independent Photo Editor & Photobook Consultant, Austin, TX

Sarah Leen, Co-founder, Visual Thinking Collective, East Boothbay, ME

Mary Virginia Swanson, Independent Author, Educator, & Advisor, Tucson, AZ

Independent Curators

Steven Duede, Aspect Initiative, Boston, MA

J. Sybylla Smith, Independent Curator, Educator and Consultant, Concept Aware

Joanne Yang, Independent Curator, Seoul, Korea

Publishing 

Caleb Cain Marcus, Design Director, Luminosity Lab, Brooklyn, NY

Magazine Publishing

Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor, The Guardian, New York, NY

Donna Garcia, Contributing Editor, LENSCRATCH, Atlanta, GA

Michael Kirchoff, Analog Forever Magazine, Los Angeles, CA

Bree Lamb, Managing Editor, Fraction Magazine, Albuquerque, NM

Lia J. Latty, Founder, Black Is Magazine, Baltimore, MD

Laura Sackett, Art Director, LensCulture, Netherlands

Elin Spring, What Will You Remember, Boston, MA

Dana Stirling, Co-founder and Editor, Float Magazine, Queens, NY

Artists & Educators

Erin Carey, Educator, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA

Cathy Cone, Cone Editions, East Topsham, VT

Andrew Mroczek, Director of Exhibitions, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA

Vivian Poey, Educator, Lesley College of Art and Design Cambridge, MA

We want to thank our generous sponsor, Digital Silver Imaging, for their continued support of our community.