New England Portfolio Review | NEPR 2024

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.

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

Saturday May 6th & 7th – One-on-One 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 (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)

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 to date, more will be added as we hear back. 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.

Sherrie Berger, Consultant, Los Angeles, CA 

Erin Carey, Educator, Boston, MA

Mia Dalglish, Curator, Pictura Gallery Bloomington, IN

David DeMelim, Founder and Managing Director, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Arlette Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Michael Kirchoff, Analog Forever Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Kopeikin, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bree Lamb, Managing Editor, Fraction Magazine, Albuquerque, NM
Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
Caleb Cain Marcus, Design Director, Luminosity Lab, Brooklyn, NY
Ben McBride, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida 

Melanie McWhorter, Independent Photo Consultant, Grenade in a Jar, Santa Fe, NM
C. Meier, Exhibitions Manager, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR
Michael Pannier, Founder & Director SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Aline Smithson, Founder and Editor, LENSCRATCH, Los Angeles, CA
Dana Stirling, Co-founder and Editor, Float Magazine, Queens, NY
Lisa Woodward, Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Joanne Yang, Independent Curator, Seoul, Korea