Photobook Fair

Photographer Leah Abrahams has had a number of one-woman shows and her work has been accepted into numerous juried art exhibitions, was purchased by a museum and is owned by private collectors and commercial companies. Her book “Do You See What I See?” was juried into the 2023 National Show of self-published photobooks, and a second book “11 Things to Celebrate Before Breakfast,” co-created with Ruth Broyde Sharone, was juried into the 2025 photobook show.

A matrix-based artist, Elysabeth Cianci creates original and editioned printed matter under the imprint Hungermoon Press. She received a BA in creative writing from Gordon College in 2015, and an MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Lesley University, College of Art and Design in 2020 where she studied under photographer Christopher James. Her work is held in several private collections, as well as the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Dividing her time between her home in the mountains of Vermont and the Boston area, Cianci serves as Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and in the Studio Arts Department at Lesley Art + Design. Additionally, she is on staff at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

Joshua Deaner (b. 1976, Boston, MA) is a photographically-based artist whose work blends fine art and storytelling. His compositions, often incorporating text, transcend traditional photography. Deaner has exhibited widely, with his work held in prestigious collections like the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House. Known for projects such as Lettera Curiosa and The Future of Darkness, he has published over twenty books, including the award-winning I Sell Fish. He currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island.

Photographer Joe Greene started out painting, but picked up a camera when he couldn’t get his ideas onto canvas fast enough. After being awarded honors at Mass College of Art, dual majoring in Graphic Design and Photography, Joe went on to become a well known fine art and commercial photographer based in Boston.

Suzi Grossman is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, cyanotype, sculpture, and bookmaking. Their practice is deeply informed by a love of nature and plants. Suzi is pursuing an MFA in Photography at MassArt and holds a BFA from SMFA and a BA in English Literature from Tufts. They live in Somerville, MA and are actively involved in the local art scene.

McCall Hollister is a collector, a museum worker, a wannabe photographer, and a bookmaker. Their research interrogates the contradictions of gender expression and the limits of (auto)biography through handmade photo/prose books. Hollister received their BA in Arts & Humanities from Michigan State University in 2019, and their Masters in Fine Arts and Museum Studies from the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2024. They are currently based in Boston, MA.

Robert Kalman is a documentary portrait photographer whose career spans over forty years. His work has appeared in countless publications, solo exhibitions, and juried shows throughout the United States. For the past three years he has been working on a book entitled What’s it Like For You To Be An American? about American self-identity during this divisive period of time.

Michael King is a retired physicist who lives in Massachusetts. In this book, his love for photography, birds, and fine art converge in a narrative that explores the intersection of real and imagined realities.

Kay Kenny received her BFA from Syracuse University, MA from Rutgers University, and MFA from Syracuse University (all in Visual Arts). Painter, photographer. Writes art criticism and articles on the visual arts for arts magazines. Photography teacher for over thirty years at New York University, and the International Center of Photography in New York City. 2016 NJSCA Individual Artist Award, 2015 Arthur Grifin Legacy Award, Griffin Museum of Photography, 2009 Honorable Mention in FineArts Photography Lucie Awards. NJSCA fellowship awards 1985,1987,1993. Numerous one-person shows, most recently in Griffin Museum, Hunterdon Museum NJ, Casa Colombo Museum, NJHudson NY, Medellin, Columbia, Taipei,Taiwan, Lubbock, Texas and New York City.

Lori Van Houten and Anna Leigh Clem are a mother-daughter duo working with photography, text, book arts, and other media to create work ranging from hand-held objects to room-size installations. Both individually and collectively, they meditate on losing one’s way, seeking home, and survival while suggesting what is recoverable and can be brought back and made to live.

Fern L. Nesson is a fine art photographer whose work has been shown in Nesson’s photographs have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions in Torino, Arles, Budapest, Kingston, Jamaica, Rome, Prague. and Barcelona, MIT, Harvard, Boston, Rockport, ME, and Durham, NC. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Budapest and the University of the West Indies. Nesson’s photography can be found at www.fernlnesson.com. Fern’s photobooks, Signet of Eternity, WORD, and The Shape of Content were featured the 10th, 12th and 14th Annual Photobooks Exhibit at the Griffin Museum.

Andrew M.K. Warren is a photographer living in Dover, Massachusetts. He grew up in Andover, MA. and received his BFA and MFA from Tufts University/SMFA. His photographic work has been exhibited locally and nationally, and can be seen on Instagram. He has taught photography and video at Boston Latin School, the Photographic Resource Center, University of New Hampshire, Wellesley College, Art Institute of Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, New England School of Photography and currently teaches at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA. He enjoys surfing and playing records for his cats Mel, Otto, and Mabel.