Critic's Pick

View the reception video at SoHo Photo Gallery.

Statement This is a daydream: through the long cold months of winter the ghosts of summers past are drawn as a memoir in graphite and colored pencil on a photograph of the snow-covered landscape. The landscapes are rendered in platinum palladium on watercolor paper. Each image is 15”x22” one of a kind print $1200 each… [Read More]

Artistic Statement How much can we control the past within us? Against the background of the biographies of my grandparents Irmgard Adam and Fritz Konrad I am concerned with the phenomenon of transgenerational traumatization researched in epigenetics. What is meant is the passing on of individually experienced traumas, which continue to have an effect over… [Read More]

The photographers that will be exhibited on a computer in the gallery during the 27th Juried Exhibition and exhibited in the Critic’s Pick Gallery on-line and released to Instagram are: Hannah Altman, Norman Aragones, K Linnea Backe, Gary Beeber, Sheri Lynn Behr, Debra Bilow, Diana Bloomfield, Edward Boches, Sally Bousquet, Annette LeMay Burke, Valerie Burke,… [Read More]

Statement In Mythic Nature I create compositions of an imagined world. I am fascinated by statuary in the private and public space. These monuments have been erected to embody the mythos, ideals, and spiritual aspirations of the community. They are tributes to the sacrifice of local heroes, ancient gods, or religious icons and form the… [Read More]

Statement For just over a year I photographed as many people within a 5-mile radius of my home in Poughkeepsie, NY as would let me. Many declined my request, but over 750 acquiesced with kindness, support and good humor. Some also shared bits of information about themselves that reveal the strength, diversity and uniqueness of… [Read More]

This year the 11th Annual Self-Published Photobook Show is virtual due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. There was one call for entries which resulted in two online exhibitions. Plus an online catalog. The Davis Orton Gallery & Griffin Museum of Photography are each holding a virtual exhibition on each of their venues’ websites. The jurors were Karen Davis and… [Read More]

Statement “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We know this phrase from the Declaration of Independence quite well. For most of us Americans growing up, we learned this phrase… [Read More]

Statement “I come from here.  Here, meaning the grass and stones beneath a person’s feet, the ground upon which they are raised. Because that will never change, regardless of who happens to be ruling at any particular moment. Here pins each person to something solid against which they can always reference themselves, no matter how… [Read More]

PhotoSynthesis XV is a collaboration of the Burlington High School and Winchester High School facilitated by the Griffin Museum of Photography. By creating photographic portraits of themselves and their surroundings, students from Burlington High School and Winchester High School have been exploring their sense of self and place in a unique collaborative program at the Griffin… [Read More]