New England Portfolio Reviews 2020: August 1-2, 2020

The New England Portfolio Reviews will go virtual on Zoom and will be held on August 1 and 2, 2020.

There will be an orientation (6:30 ET) and Keynote Lecture by Cristina de Middel (7 PM ET) on July 31, 2020 on Zoom.

Cristina de Middel © Bernardoni

Reviewers Free for Keynote. Portfolio Review Participants Free for Keynote. 9 scholarships participants Free for Keynote. Portfolio Walk Subscribers Free for Keynote. NEPR organizers Free for Keynote. For the previous groups mentioned it is Free but you must RSVP. To RSVP scroll all the way down to see RSVP section on this page. It is below the section for paid tickets.

Keynote now opened to the general public for $10. See ticket link below at bottom of page.

The weekend will be a great opportunity for emerging and established photographers to meet with curators, gallerists, educators, and other image professionals in the busy New England photography world and beyond. The reviews are hosted in partnership with The Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center.

The portfolio reviews will serve individuals who are just embarking on their careers and those who have experience and are hoping to reach new audiences. In the traditional format, each review will be 25 minutes long (with 5 minutes between reviews) with one reviewer.

Regarding reviewer selection: We will send out a survey for people to rank their top 10 reviewers and we will then match everyone as best we can.

Emily Belz, Photographer and  Educator
Catherine Couturier, Owner/Director Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX
David DeMelim, Managing Director, RI Center for Photographic Arts
Bill Gaskins, Photographer and Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University
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, Creative Director, Shutter Hub, UK
Michael Itkoff, Cofounder, Daylight Books
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Frances Jakubek. Director of Exhibitions and Operations, Silverstein Gallery
Anne Kelly. Gallery Director, photo-eye gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Bree Lamb, Managing Editor, Fraction Magazine
Caleb Cain Marcus,  Roving Exhibitions Editor, Damiani Publishing, NY, NY
Melanie McWhorter, Independent Photography Consultant
Andrew Mroczek, Director of Exhibitions, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Michael Pannier, Founder and Executive Director, SE Center for Photography
Judith Pishnery, Atlanta Photography Group
Martha Schneider, Founder and Owner, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
J. Sybylla Smith, Independent Consultant
Aline Smithson, Founder, Lenscratch
Dana Stirling & Yoav Friedlander, Float Photo Magazine
Mary Virgina Swanson, Educator, Author and Entrepreneur in the field of photography, and a respected advisor to artists and arts organizations.
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 Bios
The 4 portfolio reviews total cost is $200. Please reserve and pay for your reviews below. Due to concerns of social gathering, we will not be able to have a Portfolio Walk. We will provide a pdf for download of all of the participants of the portfolio review that we will make available to you, our reviewers and the public. All those who opted not to be part of the portfolio reviews but purchased the portfolio walk only will be included in the artist index and receive the pdf as well.

See the press release on our scholarship participants and our 3 sponsors.

Our gratitude to Sprint Systems of Photography for their sponsorship of the Sprint Systems of Photography Scholarships as part of this year’s portfolio reviews. Our 9 scholarships have all been awarded. The Scholarship Awardees can be viewed here.

We want to thank our sponsors Digital Silver Imaging and Panopticon Imaging for their generous donations. When seeking services please consider our sponsors for your photography needs.

Schedule:

Friday, July 31, 2020:
6:30 pm kick off orientation and explanations of the reviews
7:00 – 8:00 pm – Keynote Lecture with Cristina de Middel
8:00 – 8:15 pm Questions

Saturday, August 1, 2020:
9:00 am – Noon
Noon – 3 pm
3 pm – 5 pm

Sunday, August 2, 2020:
9:00 am – Noon
Noon – 3 pm
3 pm – 5 pm