We celebrate the unique and individual narratives from sixteen New England schools with Singular Vision. These incredible students give us a vision of the medium that provides great promise for photography. Whatever creative path they decide to follow, their vision is one we look forward to. Thank you to all the teachers who inspire these students with their creativity and ability to support them with the tools to express their creativity.

A reception for the students will be held at Groton School on Sunday May 18th from 2 to 4pm. The address is 282 Farmers Row, Groton, MA. The exhibit is in the Dining Hall Building, in the Christopher Brodigan Gallery and lobby.

We have highlighted three students here with recognition of first, second and third place, and each school had one student artist receive an honorable mention.

First Place – JIllian Falcione, Stoughton High School

Second Place – Bain Coyne, Milton Academy

Third Place – Elio Franco Harrinzon, Framingham High School

The schools and students shown here – Honorable Mentions and Award Winners are highlighted with *

Arlington High School – Educator – David Moore | Students – *Sol Yudowski, Edallen Severe, Lucinda Thompson, Moshe Goff

Boston Arts Academy – Educator – Guy Michael Telemaque | Students – Isaac Pina, *Jacqui Garcia Peña, James Dickey, Uirbel De Los Santos

Brimmer and May – Educator – Julie Williams Krishnan | Students – Yihao (Ethan) Qiang, Merrin Lindenfelser, *Rory Coleman, Neil Chen

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School – Educator – Andrew Warren | Students – Shirley Zhu, Alec Bailey & Christian Hernandez, *Caroline Kovacs & Alexis Higgins, Christian Hernandez & Caroline Ko

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School – Educators – Debi Milligan, Cindy Weisbart, Amanda Kilton | Students – *Kate Wheatley, Ronan Muellner, Dori Coplon-Newfield, Rachel Dickie

Dana Hall School – Educator – MaryAnn McQuillan | Students – Karen Altenhoff, *Priscilla Miranda, Sana Shinwari, Uthara Iyengar

Framingham High School – Educator – Scott Alberg | Students – Elio Franco Harrinzon, James Gordon, *Esther Meira Marins, Ashton LaBrecque

Groton School – Educator – Blake Fitch | Students – Seb Lewin, *Alejandro Hassan, Grace Best

Lawrence Academy – Educator – Kes Maro | Students – Eyob Hawgood & *Sophie Widmayer

Marblehead High School – Educator – Leah Bordieri | Students – Evan Carroll, Charlie Roszell, Colin Hart, *Grey Collins

Milton Academy – Educator – Scott Nobles | Students – Bain Coyne, LJ Reddicks, Patrycja Pogorzelska, Montserrat Martínez Vindas

Needham High School – Educator – Tiziana Rozzo | Students – *Cole Davison, Connor Manning, Brandon Ah Kee

Norwood High School – Educator – Saquora Lowe-McLaurin | Students – Nathaniel Kravitz, *Maryam Ozodova, Caroline McCraven, Nancy Patel

Stoughton High School – Educator – J.Stansfield | Students – Nathan Adolphe, Jillian Falcione, Andrew Luyiga, *Angelica Barbosa

The Rivers School – Educator – Sophie Lane | Students – Mika Mustafayev, *Olivia Standish, Will Torres, Stephen Yancey

Weston High School – Aimi Lee, Ben Gardner, *Darya Serov and other students

The Winsor School – Educator – Mia Tinkjian | Students – Caroline Specht, Ellaine Ban, Nell Sparks, Keira Finn

As a photographer I have had a lifelong desire to record the daily life around me. This has principally been in Boston and Cambridge. Like the Boston painter Allan Rohan Crite, I have thought of myself as an artist-reporter, motivated to clearly detail what life looked like in this place at this particular time. I have been drawn to the everyday, to ordinary people going about their lives. To me there is wonder in small things . 

I’ve often wished that photography had existed in distant times – say, in colonial Boston or medieval Europe or ancient Greece – to have a record of everyday life in those eras. Looking at the archive of Arthur Griffin was a real pleasure because it spoke to this interest of mine in the recorded past – even if only decades before my own life. In fact, what made researching his work particularly interesting to me was that the city he captured was at once both so similar and so different from the city I have photographed. (Almost every photograph I chose from the Griffin archive was made in Boston). I found that we often photographed people doing the same things, such as looking at books for sale on a sidewalk, hovering over a car engine, waiting on benches in a train station. And often our subjects were photographed in the same location – North Station, the L Street Bathhouse, the Bunker Hill Memorial – even, at times, framed from almost the exact same spot, decades apart. This caused me to reflect on the evolution of a city; what continues, carries on over the years, and what changes, what is new. There are physical and social aspects of Boston in Griffin’s pictures that are remarkably the same as in mine. But there are also differences – in what has changed in the built environment, in the mix of people who make up the city, and in the city’s changing culture. To continue observing and to continue challenging yourself to make a well-framed image of an expressive human moment in this evolving world – like Arthur Griffin did so successfully – is forever satisfying.

About Tony Loreti

Tony Loreti is a Boston-based photographer and photography educator. Born in Beverly, MA, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Filmmaking from Boston University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Tony recently retired after teaching photography for twenty-five years at the Cambridge School of Weston. His personal photography has been selected for many juried exhibitions and is in both private and public collections.  A significant portfolio of his street photography work has been purchased for the collection of the Print Department of the Boston Public Library, and the Cambridge Public Library has also acquired a large number of prints.

Tony continues to work with film and traditional printing in his personal photography. He is deeply committed to the older form of the medium, particularly because of its tangible nature and the look and feel of gelatin silver prints.

Blue Outtakes: A Cyanotype Collection

The Griffin Museum of Photography is committed to providing exposure opportunities for artists through monthly online exhibitions in its Virtual Gallery. While not every submitted photograph fits the curatorial vision for a show, we maintain an active record of noteworthy works that deserve recognition. Here, we highlight a selection of compelling submissions to our Anna Atkins Birthday Extravaganza —cyanotypes that, while perhaps not directly responding to or celebrating Atkins’ botanical achievements, captivate with their unique artistry and vision. The photographs showcase the diversity of subject matter explored by contemporary artists, spanning still life, landscape, and portraiture.

PART I
On the Human Form

Part II
Objects, Forms and Silhouettes

PART III
Landscapes

PART IV
Fauna

The Griffin Museum of Photography is delighted to present Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making, a sweeping online exhibition surveying the current state of contemporary cyanotype-making. The exhibition presents a selection of over 60 artists working all over the world, each one creating unique works utilizing cyanotype as part of their processes.

Expanded Cyanotypes:
New Directions in Cyanotype Making

Aline Smithson • Alberto Sanchez • Allison Calteux • Ana Avramova-Pesheva • Annalise Neil • Adrienne Defendi • Beatriz Bellorin • Beth Herman Adler • Brett Day Windham • Carolina Baldomá • Clara Zaragoza • Claudia Hollister • Chloe Cusimano • Chloe Sailor • Colton Rothwell • Cynthia Katz • Dana Cohen • Edie Bresler • Elizabeth Stone • Emma Backer • Ebru Çiçek • Fruma Markowitz • Hannah Lamb • Heidi Kirkpatrick • Iris Grimm • Isabella Mayson • Jackie Neale • Javier Hinojosa • Jillian Abir MacMaster • Jim Cokas • Joachim Froese • Jolie Zinn • Julia Whitney Barnes • Julie Hamel • Jyoti Liggin • Kate Flake • Katherine Akey • Kaylee Peters • Karen Klinedinst • Lisa Tang Liu • Lou Sturges Wilson • Margo Duvall • Marna de Wet • Margaret Albaugh • Michelle Westmark Wingard • Morgan Ford Willingham • Natali Barbee-Bravo • Nobuko Murakami • Olga Andriyash • Paulo Accioly Lins de Barros • Rob Croll • Ramona Zordini • Sally Chapman • Shir Melech • Teri Figliuzzi • Tina Vincent • Ute Lindner • Yuchen Wang

The Griffin Museum of Photography is delighted to showcase a curated selection of dynamic and inventive cyanotypes employing abstract gestures in camera-less photography. With selections made form over 600 submissions, Cyanotype Currents: Contemporary Abstractions in Cameraless Photography offers an exploration of contemporary abstract visual languages in cyanotype-making today. The exhibition presents works from 40 artists working all over the world, featuring artists from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland, The Bahamas, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Cyanotype Currents:
Contemporary Abstractions in Cameraless Photography

Alan Wyllie • Andrea Moore • Annabel Pretty • Annette Wijdeveld • Ashlee Whitehead • Ben Stezaker • Cristina Sáez • D.E. Todd • David W Simpson • Ella Barnes • Ellen Barratt • Haein Songégé • Holly Sandiford • Jamie Cabreza • Kadra Ochoa • Katama Murray • Kim Herringe • Kristin Linnea Backe • Linda Jarrett • Lisa Helland • Maya Ciarrocchi • Michelle Mansour • Mila Dorfman • Natalie Goulet • Dora Duan • Nelly Haikal • Patricia Gilhooly • Paola Davila • Vanessa Thompson • Yao Tong • Kiyomi Yatsuhashi • Stephanie Cruz Mendez • Sarah Pfohl • Adair Freeman Rutledge • Jenna Meacham • Kristina Sumfleth • Camilla Jerome • Albert Sanchez • Harley Ngai Grieco • Jackson Lang Fischbach

About the Curator

Vicente Cayuela is an artist and photo editor working across various photographic platforms to promote and disseminate photographic work. His work has been exhibited and published by platforms and institutions such as Lenscratch, Fraction, Altiba-9 Contemporary, Analog Forever Magazine, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery, and others. He has received numerous accolades, fellowships, and scholarships, including the Emerging Artist Award in Visual Arts from the Saint Botolph Club Foundation, a Lenscratch Honorable Mention Student Prize, and an Atlanta Celebrates Photography Portfolio Review Equity Scholarship. Since 2023, he has been a juror at the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic and Writing Awards in the Massachusetts Region. In addition to his artistic practice, he has contributed to the development of exhibitions and exhibition materials at institutions such as the Rose Art Museum, TCNHS, MASS MoCA, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.

The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday Exhibition

To honor Anna Atkins‘ pioneering contributions at the intersection of art, science, and education, the Griffin Museum of Photography and LENSCRATCH Fine Art Photography Daily have co-organized an online exhibition, inviting artists worldwide to showcase their finest cyanotype works in celebration of her enduring legacy. Rooted in Atkins’ fascination with botany and the natural world, this exhibition reflects her era-defining spirit of inquiry and deep curiosity for nature.

The works selected for The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday exhibition pay homage to Atkins’ botanical studies and her artistic exploration of the natural world, focusing mostly on contemporary botanical works and works concerned with aquatic environments.

Due to an overwhelming response — nearly 700 submissions — three additional accompanying exhibitions were curated form the original submission pool, showcasing the great diversity in subject matter of this years call for entry.

• Expanded Cyanotypes: New Directions in Cyanotype Making
• Cyanotype Currents: Contemporary Abstractions in Camera-less Photography
• Blue Outtakes: A Cyanotype Collection.

In addition, we are thrilled to bring part of this exhibition in person to our satellite gallery in Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA. Elemental Blues: Contemporary Cyanotypes, surveying the works of Upstate New York and New England-based artists: Anna Leigh Clem, Brett Windham, Bryan Whitney, Julia Whitney Barnes, Sally Chapman and Cynthia Katz.

Congratulations to the selected artists and thank you to everyone who submitted.
We hope you enjoy looking at these selections as much as we did looking at them.

The 226th Anna Atkins Birthday Exhibition Gallery

In Lieu of Flowers is an ongoing series of memorial portraits of the transpeople murdered in the United States and Puerto Rico due to transphobia, state violence, and neglect. Part mourning ritual and part photograph, I use the roses from my garden and portraits primarily made by the subjects themselves to create a series of anthotypes, images created using photosensitive material from plants and the sun that cannot be fixed, therefore will inevitably fade. This process is an act of devotion and extended witnessing over the course of the days- to weeks-long exposures. When I move the prints from window to window each day to keep them in direct sunlight, I spend time looking into each person’s eyes, connecting with their joy and grieving for their absence. The sun, the source of life, cannot revive them, yet the sunlight that creates each anthotype is the same light that once illuminated each original selfie, connecting us to one another. The resulting work is an examination of community, loss, time, and the impossible effort to extend both the life of my roses and the memory of these stolen lives.

The images below are only a small portion of the more than 100 transpeople killed in 2020 and 2021 alone.

Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging. Using collage, assemblage, photography, and video, they bring secondhand objects and media together for chance encounters, deliberately placing materials from different time periods into conversation with one another as a means of thinking about a lineage of queer culture while resisting a singular progressive genealogy. Caleb has received an Artadia Finalist Award, Hearst 8×10 Biennial Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, Magenta Flash Forward Foundation Fellowships, and Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist awards, among other distinctions. Caleb exhibits regularly at a variety of national venues and has held solo shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newport Art Museum, Davis Art Museum, Brown University Art Museum, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Caleb currently teaches at Boston College and Lesley University.

Stas Ginzburg is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He immigrated to the U.S. from Russia as a queer Jewish refugee. In 2006, Ginzburg graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC, where he studied photography. Since then, his practice has expanded to include sculpture, installation, and performance art. When the protests for racial justice ignited in May 2020, Ginzburg returned to photography to document faces of young activists fighting for Black liberation. He has focused on portrait photography ever since, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community.

In the fall of 2022, a selection of Ginzburg’s portraits of young queer and trans activists was exhibited at Broward College in Florida. His work was also shown at the Queens Museum and Photoville as part of ‘Live Pridefully, Caribbean Equality Project,’ in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Currently, his photography is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of ‘Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize’ and Pace University Art Gallery, NY as part of ‘Critical Connections: Protest Photography Past + Present.’

Ginzburg’s images are featured in ‘Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation,’ a book published by Aperture in the Fall of 2022.

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Sanctuary

For the past four years, I have been making portraits of the LGBTQIA+ community during various marches and rallies advocating for the liberation and equality of all oppressed and marginalized peoples. My new series, titled Sanctuary, shifts my focus from the streets to the homes of queer, trans, and non-binary individuals, where they are free to exist in their truth, away from the threat of police violence and the external homophobia and transphobia that remain deeply rooted in our society.

In these new intimate portraits, I highlight the diversity of the queer and trans experience. Abby is the first transgender rabbi and activist from New York City. John is a bisexual young man from Ohio who lost his left eye due to police violence. Jermaine is a queer disabled organizer born with cerebral palsy who rallied hundreds of people to march in support of Black disabled lives in 2020 and 2021. Jeremy fled gender-based violence in their hometown of New Mexico and now lives in a van along the California coast. Pamela is a transgender Latinx sex worker living in Jackson Heights, Queens.

To create these portraits, I spend time with each individual in their living space, engaging in conversation to build trust and understanding. This approach allows me to capture authentic moments that reflect their true selves and the environments they have crafted, giving the viewer an intimate look into the bedrooms and living rooms of the LGBTQIA+ community. The interiors become as important as the people, creating an archive of objects and memorabilia that continue to tell the narrative of the queer and trans experience.

My long-term goal for these photographs is to present them in book form and as a traveling exhibition. I want people from all walks of life to engage with these diverse perspectives of human existence. At this critical time in our country, when trans healthcare and well-being are under attack and are being weaponized for political gain, it is essential for this community representation to exist and be seen.