31st Annual Online Members Exhibition

Posted on June 20, 2025

Each year we celebrate our members creativity with our annual members juried exhibition. This year we had an overwhelming amount of exceptional entries, making our decisions difficult to narrow to a select few.

This year, in addition to the 68 member artists on the walls of the museum in Winchester, we are pleased to present an online exhibition highlighting 64 more member artists. Of the over 300 members who submitted photographs, between the in person and online exhibitions we highlight 136 members creativity.

The artists included in our online exhibition are –

Golnaz Abdoli, Barry Berman, Jean M. Bernstein, John Blom, Robin Boger, Christine Breslin, Teresa Camozzi, Jeanne Carey, Jesse Carter, Tom Cawthon, Jaina Cipriano, Bill Clark, Claudia Rippee, Kelly Conlin, Lee Cott, Ashley Craig, Lee Day, Carol Eisenberg, Lawrence Elbroch, Andrew Epstein, Jose Mila Espinoza, Anne Evans, Teri Figliuzzi, Joan Fitzsimmons, Trish Gannon, Lisa Gizara, Adam Gooder, Katherine Gulla, Wenda Habenicht, Al Hiltz, Jeannie Hutchins, Steve Jacobson, Gail Jenner, Cami Johnson, Amisha Kashyap, Kay Kenny, Sasha Knittel, Molly Lamb, Emily Laux, Al Levin, Mark Levinson, Steve Lewent, Anna Litvak-Hinenzon, Lyn Swett-Miller, Benita Mayo, Kay McCabe, Lisa McCord, Lisa Miller, Donna Marie Mironchuk, Laila Nahar, Linda Hammet Ory, Linda Plaisted, Abby Raeder, Lisa Redburn, Sepand Rezazadeh, Kaya Sanan, Jessica Sarrazin, Lynn Saville, Anastasia Shik, Walter Silver, Ron St. Jean, JP Terlizzi, Robert Tomlinson, Elizabeth Wiese, Marsha Wilcox and Marjorie Wolfe

Atelier 2.2025 Online Exhibition

Posted on June 16, 2025

We are pleased to present the work of our inaugural class of Atelier 2 students. Instructor Traer Scott led the class through a year of portfolio development, critique and conversations with professional mentors, book designers, gallerists and editors.

We present the work of Tony Attardo, Judith Donath, Dena Eber, Tira Khan, Kay McCabe, Victor Rosansky, Gordon Saperia, and Li Shen.

Dena Eber: Echoes From the Land

When I moved onto new property in May of 2023, I encountered native ancient energy that at times reflected war and greed but also revealed spirituality and love. The only other time I experienced this was in Israel, the land of my heritage. When I started this artwork, I sought to learn from the energies encrusted in the land; where I live as an inhabitant, my country as an American, and Israel as a Jew. My larger project has each of these places as a part (where I live, my country, Israel), plus an epilogue with reflections for peace. Included are samples from each part.

As the events in southern Israel and Gaza on October 7^th, 2023 unfolded, my work took on new meaning, and I searched for parallels in time, at least 2000 to 3000 years in each place, to better understand human energy, behaviors, and their belief in God. I began to think about my place in time, reflecting on whose land it is anyway. Even though I hold the deed to the land where I live, in my heart I know that I don’t own it. My project is about uncovering the human conflict between wanting a place to call home that expresses one’s roots, and a perceived ownership of land.

My lens reveals small truths that lie in front of me, that a greater understanding of the past embedded in the land is entwined to ultimate peace. Each time I click the shutter, connect to the land, and converse with the spirits of the past, I am committing a political act. As in prayer, I give thanks and ask forgiveness at once.

Judith Donath: Aesthetic Selection

Aesthetic Selection is a fine art series of layered flower images, each composition designed to interpose shape and texture, creating a shifting portrait of floral form and botanical detail.

To make these images, I start by photographing living flowers outdoors in natural light. I combine the chosen photographs as full frames, selectively blending the layers using a spatial-frequency-based process.

Every spring, after the long colorless New England winter, I am entranced by the emergence of green shoots, and find the successive waves of blossoms to be photographically irresistible. This attraction is not surprising, for flowers have evolved to be enticingly beautiful. Rooted in place, plants must lure others to assist their reproductive process, to carry pollen from the stamens of one flower to the pistil of another. The beauty and variety of floral forms is the evolutionary result of the competition to attract various pollinators—insects, birds, and now humans, too—with wildly differing sensory preferences and anatomical abilities.

I am far from alone in finding flowers to be an fascinating subject for art: does the world need another picture of a rose or tulip? Yet this familiarity can make us blind to really looking at them; we often simply recognize them, without really noticing the fantastic structure and detail of even the most common place blossom. My goal with this project is to create images that entice people to look afresh at these remarkable botanical solutions to the dual goals of pollinator attraction and sexual reproduction.

Kay McCabe: Inheritance

Inheritance is a photographic memoir that ruminates on family, culture and our relationship to the things we keep.

We all have stuff that has been given to us from our ancestors. The question is, what do you with it all? Do you use it, store it, give it away? What began as an exercise in downsizing quickly became a reflection on my family’s ethos. As I rummaged, I heard lessons from my parents and realized that each object had a story to tell. Creative, industrious and loving, my family was also bound by an oppressive social code. Some items I cherish and others are a burden to save, yet tossing them feels as if I am abandoning my past.

I have found myself in a rush of memories, some crystal clear and some murky with time. The old green chair that belonged to my father as a boy, too small and too low to be practical, still sits proudly right by the woodstove. Broken sewing machines, used by my mother to dress her five children gather dust in the closet. Her paintings, his ruby red wine glasses, my grandfather’s ornate dishes from a lost generation, wedding photos, baby photos, outdated anatomical drawings and history books- the list of things goes on and on. Each object tells a story and connects the past to the present.

My children are not going to want these heirlooms, yet purging is more difficult than I thought. Like all good memoirs, I hope this reflection resonates.

Li Shen: Into the Unknown

I believe that everyone carries an inner world—a personal, illogical gallery of subliminal life, veiled in dreams, shaped by experience, yet composed of more than memory. Most of the time, this world remains inaccessible, buried beneath waking consciousness. Perhaps it is what psychologists call the unconscious.

In my conscious mind, I sense the world teetering toward an uncertain future. Climate change, authoritarianism, and other looming crises threaten to unravel what once felt stable. My immediate response is to cling to normalcy, to suppress dread and despair. Yet, these anxieties continue to be processed beneath the surface, emerging in fleeting ways—through dreams, word associations, and slips of the tongue.

Lately, my artistic practice begins with collecting objects—not for their material value, but for their beauty, quirkiness, or quiet insistence. The images in this series are in-camera compositions of these found objects, arranged as small dioramas atop my bedroom dresser rather than assembled digitally. This hands-on approach is integral to my practice, – tactile, real-world constructions giving rise to images that depart from reality.

While I approach each arrangement with intention, often sketching ideas beforehand, the images themselves arise from a deeper place. Certain objects seem to demand inclusion, scratching at the surface of my inner world, insisting on their role within a scene. The resulting photographs feel dreamlike and irrational—fragments of the subconscious made visible. I do not doubt that they are oblique reflections of my suppressed fears, a way for my mind to process what I work so hard to ignore.

For now, my conscious gaze remains averted from the uncertainty ahead, but through these images, the unconscious speaks.

Victor Rosansky:

I create photographs that function like visual symphonies—images that don’t just capture moments but unfold like music over time. By translating rhythmic structures into visual form, I guide the viewer’s gaze much like a composer leads a listener through sound. Whether it’s the order of urban patterns or the vitality of natural chaos, rhythm shapes the emotional tone of my work. My goal is to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary; images that are not just seen but felt.

Even before I press the shutter, I find myself “listening” to a scene—tuning in to its tempo, its dynamics, its emotional tone. Whether it’s the orderly cadence of urban architecture or the unpredictable pulse of nature, each image is crafted to evoke specific emotional responses.

This cross-disciplinary perspective not only sharpens my visual intuition but also invites collaboration—where photographers and musicians can meet in shared creative space, building layered, immersive works that are full of metaphors. For me, rhythm is the connective tissue between image and feeling, sight and sound, stillness and movement—and it is through this rhythm that I find the heartbeat of my art.

Gordon Saperia: Threshold of a Dream

Threshold of a Dream is a series of nonrepresentational landscape images whose origins are deeply rooted in my desire to hold the joyful memory of a specific time and a place. These recollections are guided by imagery seen in my pre-dream state – a phenomenon referred to by scientists as “hypnagogia”. Drifting towards sleep, I often see dimly lit and vaguely familiar landscapes. These visions transform in content and in feel–sometimes quickly and sometimes more slowly. Upon awakening, I have unusually clear memories of them.

The digitally composited images in Threshold of a Dream are complex fusions of elements from my photographs of worldwide landscapes. The process involves replacing one section after another until the entire frame feels both mysterious and congruous. The final form, which can take hours of digital play, blurs the line between photography and painting.

I have walked, photographed, and dreamt in these fantastic places. My hope is that the viewer will take a moment to pause and construct their own story.

Web-based, generative artificial intelligence (AI) was not used to create these images.

Tony Attardo: A Portrait of Place

The American novelist John Steinbeck, reminds us, “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself”.¹ These words run deep, and bring me back to a very young age when the conversation at our family dinner table wasn’t about food, it was about respect; treating people with dignity and respect no matter what their station in life, what they looked like, where they came from, or where they lived. Today, at 71 years old, this powerful lesson is still the driving force of my photography.

In this body of work, I have created portraits of people’s surroundings and lives in the lesser known small rural and urban places in my home state of New Hampshire. The motivation behind this, and all my work, is to inform, inspire, and to connect cultures and lives that help start conversations about dignity and respect.

These images, a combination of digital monochrome and black and white film, focus on the interplay of light and shadow and detail. They allow the viewer to concentrate on the subjects’ expressions and environment while enhancing an emotional connection.

In each photograph, there are signs of a calm, steady human presence-each with their own character. The buildings serve as a tangible link to the past, offering us a sense of place and continuity, a story of quiet resolve – i.e. a century old granite church, the active brick factory buildings, and a small town hall on a country road. Creating black and white images help transcend time,create emotional depth, and bring people directly into the present.

All of these photographs extend the viewer an invitation into the spaces where one can easily enter and perhaps contemplate who might live here, feel their presence, and imagine their voices. Each photograph, complete with its beauty and complexity, becomes a single thread in a much larger story.

¹From a recent public exhibit, Portland Museum of Art 2023

Topography of Being Human

Posted on May 30, 2025

Featuring works by Teri Figliuzzi, Evy Huppert, Emily Laux, Leslie Gleim, Laila Nahar, Shelagh Howard, Donna Tramontozzi, Marsha Wilcox, Mandi Ballard and Kym Ghee

Curated by Aline Smithson

This exhibition brings together a group of female photographers who delve into the layered terrain of existence—traversing the visible and invisible, the personal and the cosmic. Their work maps the contours of human presence across time and space: from ancient galaxies to the mountains of Chile and volcanoes in Hawaii; from landscapes etched with memory and transformation to intimate encounters with the human body and self-expression.
The Topography of Being Human draws inspiration from the concept of topography—the detailed mapping of a surface—reimagined here as a metaphor for the human condition. The artists in this exhibition excavate these contours, revealing the emotional, cultural, environmental, and philosophical dimensions that shape who we are.
Their images explore the interconnections between self and other, memory and place, species and system. They examine how environments reflect our histories and how human actions reshape the world around us—from the spread of invasive species to the quiet transformations of a walk in the park.
This exhibition is a celebration of perception and presence—a meditation on our moment in time, our place on Earth and in the heavens, and the feminine perspective on the layered experiences of being human.

Teri Figulizzi – North Woods is a remote sanctuary within Central Park, where the relentless energy of New York City softens into stillness. In the hush following a snowfall, the scene transforms—ephemeral, pristine, and profoundly moving. Through captured images interwoven with metallic threads and delicate papers, I seek to preserve that luminous calm and the serene essence of winter. My work is a tribute to nature’s subtle strength and the fragile, enduring beauty that often goes unnoticed.

Marsha Wilcox – Ancient Light
Vincent van Gogh said, “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” I have loved looking at the night sky all my life. In this time of relentless news-cycles, political unrest and social turmoil, the majesty of the universe reminds me that although we are insignificant and transient, we are connected to something infinitely larger and timeless.

Donna Tramontozzi – DEEP TIME
Climate change is real, but it won’t destroy the Earth. It will change the Earth, but the Earth will endure as it has endured comets, asteroids, mass extinctions and tectonic shifts. This belief gives me comfort when I feel my boundaries disappear and I become a part of a vast and changing universe.

Emily Laux – HOME INVASIONS is a speculative narrative about botanical biodiversity. In Home Invasions, I imagine a world in which humans have succumbed completely to “plant blindness,” a British botanical term that refers to the human tendency to ignore plants. At the heart of my creative process is the staging of temporary installations of invasive plants in rooms where the human residents coexist with plant life, either unaware or only vaguely conscious of the intrusion of vines, branches, berries and leaves.

Evy Huppert – Atlas of Remembered Dreams explores rediscovering fifty-year-old memories hidden in overexposed, weather-damaged 35 mm black and white film rolls holding images from a 10,000- kilometer nine month backpacking road/rail/ferry trip from Ireland to India on $5/day. Unable afterwards to print from the resulting almost opaque, disappointing negatives, I left them to curl their way into old age in an old family trunk for decades. Then, entering old age myself and becoming the family archivist, I realized a digital film scanner and digital editing tools might open these analog images. One by one, a hundred scans of curly negatives slowly became a hundred windows to the past. Memories of each place and event I had recorded on the long eastward road surfaced like remembered dreams, gritty and foggy, often filmed through the dirty windows of trains, busses, and ferries. The project is ongoing.

Shelagh Howard – The Secret Keepers were created through seven stages of editing, printing, reworking and reprinting: an intentionally arduous process mirrors the average of seven attempts it takes to permanently leave an abusive partner.

Combining digital long exposures, tintypes and sliver prints, this project guides us into discussion about intimate partner abuse, including psychological abuse and coercive control, moving this epidemic out of the shadows and into the light.

These images embody not only what is difficult to put into words, but also what it’s not safe for me to say. Holding secrets in their silent embrace, they reveal only what we are brave enough to see, containing answers to questions that we must find the courage to start asking.

Laila Nahar – Lost Space Living in Our Mind is about living in a place and the experience while revealing the place as both a subject and a collaborator. The photographs emerged when the novelty, particularity and excitement faded away. It was born from the feelings that seeped in the depths of our soul, into our existence. When acceptance and contradictions of the moment lost its grip on us. It is the sudden deep breath that pauses everything and the moment spreads through our existence. Just the hopping of a little bird, the sudden darkening of the sky in anticipation of monsoon rain, or the woman on the roof taking a moment of pause to look at the sky after hanging the washed clothes. Suddenly we are freed from the moment; something rises like the swelling tide. It became a book when feelings and remembrance become the reflection of each other.

Kym Ghee – Unsilenced is a documentation of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia, using multiple segments of images to expand the storytelling. This decaying institution, located in the midst of wild Appalachian Mountains, is a site where beauty and tragedy coexisted for the people who were committed to the institution, particularly women. Walking through the grounds, there is a strong but silent presence of the women who were too often committed not for madness, but for annoying their husbands, resisting the roles society prescribed to them, defying the expectations of their time. Labeled as insane, many were never released, living out their lives and dying within the asylum’s walls, forgotten and unheard.

Mandi Ballard – Shift
Through:
creation of images and objects, I am on a journey to express the intangible.
Following a pathway alone, exploring the Mystery.  The struggle is me.

Leslie Gleim – Life of the Land is an ongoing body of work from Hawai‘i Island that tells the story of Earth’s evolution through a bird’s-eye perspective, photographed from a helicopter. It unfolds as a creation story — showcasing the land’s fiery birth, transformation, and rebirth. It speaks of the land’s beginnings, transformation, adaptation, and resilience — where past and present converge to raise questions about the future. This landscape becomes a microcosm, reflecting the natural and human forces shaping the fate of our planet.

Jean-Yves Gauze: Far from the Eyes, Close to the Heart

Posted on May 23, 2025

The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to present Far from the Eyes, Close to the Heart, an online exhibition featuring the work of Ivorian-Rwandan conceptual artist and photographer Jean-Yves Gauze. Gauze’s project is an emotional elegy honoring his mother and a profound exploration of memory, permanence and erasure. Blurring photographs of family albums, Gauze’s opaque images makes visible the emotional weight of a lifetime marked by loss, grief and continued healing.

Project Statement
I was a three-month-old baby when I lost my mother, a woman of Rwandan descent. I never had the chance to know her personally, but her memory lives on through a family photo album passed down from my grandmother. Growing up without her was a painful journey, marked by years of grief. It wasn’t until All Saints’ Day in 2023, when my father first took me to her grave, that I began the process of healing. This pivotal moment helped me confront my long-held sorrow.

Inspired by Mame-Diarra Niang’s Léthé series on memory and forgetting, I reinterpreted my mother’s archived photographs. By scanning and blurring them, these portraits now stand as an abstract testament to her dual existence: both physically absent yet eternally present in my heart. This cathartic series, Far from the Eyes, Close to the Heart, reflects my healing journey and honors my mother’s memory through photography.

Artist Biography
Jean-Yves Gauze (b. 1997, Côte d’Ivoire) is an Ivorian-Rwandan conceptual artist and photographer based in Abidjan. He began his artistic journey with photography and further developed his skills through the Africa Foto Fair workshops curated by renowned photographer Aida Muluneh. Through a conceptual and critical approach, Gauze’s work explores the dynamic interplay of digital technologies, visual culture, and memory in shaping our relationship with images. His work has recently gained recognition in esteemed publications such as No! Wahala Magazine, Tender Photo, and Quadro Magazine.

Yulia Spiridonova | Unseen Presence: Homeland Hues

Posted on May 22, 2025

The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to present an online exhibition featuring photographs by Russian artist Yulia Spiridonova. Her project, Unseen Presence: Homeland Hues documents the upheaval caused by the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Her images illuminate the challenges and resilience of Russian expatriates in the midst of international conflict by photographing the Russian diaspora in Boston.

Unseen Presence: Homeland Hues

When Russia announced the beginning of its “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine—a euphemism the government uses for war—any opposition to the aggression became a punishable offense. Most of my friends and I felt we had no choice but to leave the country as a sign of protest. Our communities were uprooted and scattered across different continents, countries, cities, and time zones. Many of us have lost our jobs, and our lives revolve around problems with visas, passports, work permits, and financial instability.

We live in a perpetual state of insecurity, but are unwilling to return home out of fear of being drafted into the army, or jailed for our artwork or comments on social media. In the extensive history of repression, dating back to the philosophers’ ships which transported expelled intellectuals in the early days of the USSR, Russian immigrants living in exile have faced the ongoing challenge of performing a constant act to camouflage their identity and remain invisible.

Feeling alienated under these precarious living conditions, I am rebuilding my community by photographing members of the current Russian diaspora in Boston. I find them through Telegram chats and occasional events. Since a lot of the people I photograph have legal issues being present in the US, I ask them to collaborate on how much they are willing to reveal their identity. I photograph them in neutral territory—streets, parks, parking lots, or studios—in places that are anonymous and empty.

The events of last year thrust us into a nomadic lifestyle. Without a clear sense of how long we can stay, most of us do not have much with us. We try to blend in by mimicking natives, yet everyone can identify our accent. My work is a visual study of the Russian community—identifiable, present, and opaque at the same time.

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About the artist

Yulia Spiridonova is a multimedia lens-based artist, working across photography, collage, and installation. She holds a Post-Baccalaureate certificate and an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she earned the Abelardo Morell Thesis Prize (2024). She received fellowships from Anderson Ranch (2023) and MASS MoCA Studios (2024). Based in Boston, she currently works as a Teaching Assistant at Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies.

Vision(ary) – People of Chelsea | Darlene DeVita & Sarah Putnam

Posted on May 19, 2025

About the People of Chelsea project –

The People of Chelsea Project was born from a deep love of the city of Chelsea, for its rich culture, vibrant beauty, and resilient community. Just across the harbor and only a bridge away from Boston, yet culturally distinct from its larger metropolitan neighbor, Chelsea is too often overlooked.
This project features and celebrates its residents, businesses, and institutions – from activists to entrepreneurs, from city officials to students, from old timers to newcomers. The People of Chelsea project is a positive mirror to the community and an homage to those who make the city work every day, across ages, experiences, and languages. Particularly during the mire of COVID-19, the project was a meaningful departure from the disaster-oriented media narratives about Chelsea, and each showing of this work became a source of civic pride. Through strong local collaborations, we have highlighted a community that is so much more than its pandemic losses: a Chelsea that is resilient, creative, courageous and just.
As the project has reached new audiences in and beyond Chelsea, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. People have been delighted to see their own images and stories as well as those of their friends, family, and neighbors. That momentum continues to grow as the project evolves. There are many more stories to be shared and people to be made visible.

About Darlene DeVita and Sarah Putnam –

Darlene DeVita has been a professional photographer for 30 years, and a resident of Chelsea, MA for two decades. She began the People of Chelsea Project in 2016. Her early career as one of the pre-eminent wedding photographers in the Boston area fine-tuned her skills photographing people, and this, combined with her innate love of community, is evident in the passion she brings to the People of Chelsea Project. More recently, Dar’s professional photography illuminates the work of local non-profits, schools, and corporations. Her clients have included The Boston Foundation, Athenahealth, La Colaborativa, Vinfen, MAB Community Services, Wentworth Institute of Technology, among others.

Sarah Putnam joined Darlene DeVita on the People of Chelsea Project in 2018, primarily to help in Spanish-speaking situations, conducting and editing interviews, and collaborating on the photographs by providing another set of eyes. Sarah has been in her own right a writer and freelance photographer for national publications and organizations for decades. Her writing has ranged from feature stories to interviews to reviews, her photographs have appeared in magazines and books, been included in both group and solo exhibitions, and she has produced multimedia pieces for the web. She was a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy’s, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston. For more information please contact the museum at 781.729.1158

Frank Siteman | Our Town

Posted on May 19, 2025

The Griffin is pleased to showcase the works of Frank Siteman as part of our summer public art project, Vision(ary). Frank Siteman is a resident and chronicler of life in Winchester. His images soar above the streets to capture the light, movement and changes of the town. We are so grateful to partner with the Jenks Center of Winchester to bring this exhibition to the community.

About Frank Siteman –

Frank Siteman was born in St. Louis in 1947. He attended Tufts University, where he majored in chemistry. Already immersed in photography, he shot portraits of the entire college faculty in exchange for his tuition. He soon received an assignment to photograph an annual report for a Boston area rehab hospital, and taught in a Boston youth project. Following his graduation from Tufts, where he launched the photography department through the Experimental College, he began teaching at the Roxbury Latin School, the Orson Welles Film School, Simmons College, and the Art Institute of Boston. During this time, he discovered the world of stock photography. Over the next several decades, he worked steadily shooting stock and completing commercial assignments, shooting the world while traveling. His photographs found their way into agencies, which sold them for a myriad of uses in magazines, advertising, annual reports, multi-media shows and textbooks. He continues to photograph the world and the people around him, living alternately in Winchester, MA and the White Mountains of NH.

The Griffin @ The Jenks Center is located at 109 Skillings Road in Winchester. Hours are Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm, Saturdays 8.30am to 2.30pm and closed on Sunday.

Anastasia Sierra | Bittersweet

Posted on May 19, 2025

The Griffin Museum is pleased to present the works of Anastasia Sierra as part of our summer exhibition Vision(ary). Anastasia Sierra’s lens tenderly showcases the profound connection between mother and child. Her images capture the nurturing touch and the unbreakable threads of love that bind them. Through luminous colors and intimate compositions, Sierra unveils the beauty and vulnerability inherent in maternal bonds. Each photograph explores the connection the two share, and the everyday moments of motherhood. Her images serve as a poignant reminder of the enduring power and artistry of this fundamental human relationship, etching fleeting moments into timeless expressions of affection.

About Bittersweet –

“Bittersweet” is an ongoing body of work about the conflicting emotions of motherhood, where love and joy live next to the feelings of frustration, guilt and exhaustion.

I collaborate with my young son to recreate moments of tenderness and tension. Together, we make a colorful and mysterious world of our own, using light and shadow as a metaphor, with our lives bright and colorful on the outside and piles of laundry, dirty dishes and some of the darker feelings obscured by the shadows.

I make these images to remember his chubby thighs and what it’s like to touch his skin and feel the weight of his body while I can still carry him. I photograph our love and nightmares, with a superstitious hope that my fears won’t materialize if I spell them out in my photographs.

About Anastasia Sierra –

I am a portrait and fine art photographer based in Cambridge, MA.

My work explores the themes of motherhood, womanhood, and the body from a feminist perspective. Inspired by dreams and the unseen, I construct photographs that portray internal tensions – the conflicting emotions of motherhood, the push and pull between the need for connection, and the desire for independence.

I use photography to gain a better understanding of my own experiences, and find a deeper connection with people and places I photograph, employing light and color to create vivid images that inhabit the space between the real and the imaginary.

My work has been exhibited in the US and internationally, most recent exhibitions include Kathryn Schulz Gallery in Cambridge, MA, the Photographic Resource Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, Vermont Center of Photography, and Soho Gallery in New York.

I have a BA in Linguistics and am currently attending the Photography MFA program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, expected to graduate in 2026.

The Griffin @ WinCam (Winchester Community Access and Media) is located at 32 Swanton Street in Winchester, Mass. Gallery hours are Monday thru Friday 11am – 7pm, and all other hours by appointment. For more information, contact the museum at 781.729.1158 or WinCam at 781-721-2050

Singular Vision | Secondary School Alliance Exhibition

Posted on May 7, 2025

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

Vision(ary)

Posted on May 3, 2025

Vision(ary) 2025
6th Annual Summer Public Art Exhibition

Adam Friedberg • Adair Freeman Rutledge • Aiko Wakao Austin • Andrea Alkalay • Anna Mia Davidson • Betty Young Kim • Camille Nivollet • Carolina Baldomá • Dana Stirling • Donna Bassin • Isabella Kahn • Jennifer Georgescu • Jordan Tovin • Joshua Holz • JP Terlizzi • Hillerbrand+Magsamen • Kevin Hoth • Kristen Joy Emack • Marco Castelli • Mari Saxon • Marky Kauffmann • Michael Dorohovich • Lisa Tang Liu + James Tabor • Ngoc-Tran Vu • Ric Pontes • Seokwoo Song • Shawna Gibbs • Shaoyi Zhang • Stephan Jahanshahi • Sungchul Lee • Susan Lirakis • Vicky Stromee • Zuya Yang

Vision(ary) is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 6th Annual summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. This public art installation features over 20 individual exhibitions with distinct photographic styles. Additional banners hung on light standards and sidewalk art installations can be found throughout Winchester’s downtown.

The Town of Winchester plays host to this summer exhibition, with installations throughout Winchester Town Center. Photographers from around New England and across the country are highlighted in a unique format. The exhibition concept and Photo Cube structures are designed by our long time partner, Photoville.

A downloadable map of the exhibition is here.

The Griffin Museum is happy to partner with Photoville and the Winchester Cultural District again this year to bring this installation to life. We want to thank our generous partners in bringing this exhibition to the town of Winchester.

Vision(ary) is presented by the Griffin Museum of Photography, with our production partner Photoville. We are grateful for the support of our community partners, Winchester Cultural District, Winchester Cultural Council and the Mass Cultural Council. Thank you to the Town of Winchester, The Jenks Center, Winchester Chamber of Commerce and The Winchester Department of Public Works for your continuing support of this public works project. The exhibition is generously supported by The EnKa Society, John & Mary Murphy Foundation, Winchester Savings Bank, Digital Silver Imaging and we are pleased to work with The Winchester News as our press partner. Thanks also to our creative design team, Meg Birnbaum of Birnbaum Design, Sophie Adams and Yana Nosenko. We are grateful to our amazing curatorial and media interns, Willow Simon and Georgia Doherty and Claire English.

Online Artist Panel I
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025 @ 7 pm – 8:30 pm ET
Featuring: Aiko Wakao Austin, Isabella Kahn, Mari Saxon, Carolina Baldomá, Kristen Joy Emack, Anna Mia Davidson & Adair Freeman Rutledge

Online Artist Panel II
Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025 @ 7 pm – 8:30 pm ET
Featuring: Artists TBD

Online Artist Panel III
Featuring: Thursday, Artists TBD
Date: September 18, 2025 @ 7 pm – 8:30 pm ET

FEATURED PROJECTS

Adam Friedberg: Trees of New York

Adam Friedberg is a New York City-based architectural, environmental, and portrait photographer, primarily working in large-format, black-and-white, and color traditional materials. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Metropolis, Wallpaper, Scientific American, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Dwell, and Vogue.

©Adam Friedberg
©Adam Friedberg

Adair Freeman Rutledge: The Royals

Adair Freeman Rutledge is a photographic artist whose work questions enduring traditions and underscores tensions between cultural practices and modern realities. Through a curious and feminist lens, she examines how American customs influence expectations for our youth, shape gender roles, and impact racial stereotypes. Adair is the recipient of awards including the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award (finalist) and the 2024 Do Good Fund Fellowship. She currently teaches at Cornish College of the Arts and PCNW in Seattle, WA.

©Adair Freeman Rutledge
©Adair Freeman Rutledge
©Adair Freeman Rutledge

Aiko Wakao Austin: What We Inherit

Aiko Wakao Austin is a Japanese photographer in New York. Born in Tokyo, she spent her childhood in Italy and studied at Brown University. She began working in Japan as a journalist, and later in finance.

She moved to New York in 2016 and began photographing full-time. Reflecting her multicultural upbringing, her projects explore the concept of identity and culture. Her work has been selected for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2023 and 2024.

©Aiko Wakao Austin
©Aiko Wakao Austin
©Aiko Wakao Austin

Andrea Alkalay: Unearth

Andrea Alkalay is an Argentine visual artist and Industrial Designer, trained in art photography with a focus on experimental processes. In 2024, exhibitions include Bienal Sur, Recoleta and CCK Cultural Centers, the Museum of San Juan, and The Larreta Museum. Internationally, their work has been featured at Hafez Gallery in Riyadh, the RAK Art Festival in the UAE, the Kranj Festival and Park Pecno Gallery in Slovenia (2023/24), and the DongGang Museum of Photography.

Recipient of a 2022 grant from the Saudi Ministry of Culture and winner of The Kingdom Photography Award. Other accolades include 1st place in the Latin American Professional Award (2021 WPO), finalist at the Head On Photo Festival, and winner of the Light Festival Portfolio Award in Argentina.

Publications include Aesthetica Magazine, Lenscratch, Fresh Eyes, and PHMuseum.

©Andrea Alkalay
©Andrea Alkalay
©Andrea Alkalay

Anna Mia Davidson: American Muslim

Anna Mia Davidson is an award-winning photographic artist whose work focuses on environmental and social justice issues. In her childhood home darkroom, she learned to master the fine art of photography from her photographer father. Her early years were surrounded by the powerful photographic medium that she adopted as her tool for social change.

She believes in the power of images to influence, inspire, and impact the way we see the world. Her work is informed by the issues of our times. As a Jewish female artist, she feels a strong sense of moral responsibility to shed light on humanity and build bridges cross-culturally.

She fosters project allies within communities she photographs, deepening the perspective within her work, helping change the narrative, and increasing representation for communities often left out of the artistic foreground.

She has two published books: Cuba Black And White (Steidl) and Human Nature: Sustainable Farming in the Pacific Northwest (Minor Matters). She has exhibited work worldwide at Mucem Museum, Marseille, France; Leica Gallery, LA; Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC; and has exhibited public art installations in New York, Seattle, England, and Thailand.

Commissioned works include projects for Aperture, USA Television Network, and FotoDocument. She has received awards including two International Photography (IPA) awards and the British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity People’s Choice Award.

Her work is part of the Zoelner Art Center and City of Seattle’s permanent collections. She was selected and served as the 2016 Arts Envoy under the Obama Administration.

Betty Young Kim: Film Scrolls

Betty Young Kim is a lens-based artist who uses self-portraiture, archival materials, pop culture, and both fiction and non-fiction sources to create her work. She earned her B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University, and her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of Chicago.

©Betty Kim
©Betty Kim
©Betty Kim

Camille Nivollet: A Time Without School

Independent photographer, Camille Nivollet graduated from the Art School of Bourges in 2016, and four years later, she completed a documentary photography program at EMI-CFD under the guidance of Julien Daniel and Guillaume Herbaut.

Following this training, she co-founded the collective Hors Format in 2020. Alongside her social reportage work for the press (Bayard, Liberation, Le Monde, etc.), Camille developed a specific interest in long-term projects on social issues and alternative lifestyles, following the tradition of author-driven documentary.

Carolina Baldomá:

Carolina Baldomá is an artist specialized in photography who lives and produces her work immersed in her natural environment, in the Argentinian Pampas. She explores the relationship between nature and humans through the concepts of coexistence and synchronicity between them.

Her projects are centered on the alchemical experimentation of various photographic mediums, revisiting the history of photography in an empirical way.

In 2023, she was preselected for the Fresh contest by Klompching Gallery in New York and was a finalist for the Lens School Scholarship in Madrid. She received mentions in international competitions such as Emerging Talents Awards 2024 and 2023, Critics Choice 2024, 2023, and 2022, and Portrait Awards 2023 by Lensculture.

She has held various solo exhibitions in Argentina and Uruguay and has participated in group shows in New York, Paris, Athens, Berlin, Vermont, and Melbourne. Her projects have been published in photobooks and in various specialized photography publications.

She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dana Stirling: Why Am I Sad

Dana Stirling is a fine art photographer and Co-Founder & Editor of Float Photo Magazine. Based in Queens, NY, she holds an MFA from SVA (2016) and a BA from Hadassah College (2013).

Her work has been exhibited internationally at Candela Books + Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, and Saatchi Gallery, among others. Featured in publications like Hyperallergic, LensCulture, and Buzzfeed, Dana’s work explores memory, identity, and personal narratives.

©Dana Stirling
©Dana Stirling
©Dana Stirling

Donna Bassin: Portraits of a Precarious Planet

Donna Bassin, a photo-based artist, filmmaker, and clinical psychologist, delves into the painful realities of contemporary life, including post-traumatic stress, racism, social injustice, and environmental destruction.

Her work has resulted in two award-winning documentaries, exhibitions in museums and galleries, grants, accolades, public installations, book covers, and features in art and culture publications. Her latest solo exhibition, Portraits of the Precarious Earth, is currently on view at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island.

©Donna Bassin
©Donna Bassin
©Donna Bassin

Isabella Kahn: 32 Years Later

Isabella Kahn is a lens-based artist born in China and living in Philadelphia, PA. Isabella has shown her work nationally and internationally, in cities including Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and London.

Select group exhibitions include Momentary Visions at The Print Center and Alternatives 2025: Image as Record at Ohio University. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography.

©Isabella Kahn
©Isabella Kahn

Jennifer Georgescu: I Know All The Songs by Heart

Jennifer Georgescu is a US-born visual artist living in Basel, Switzerland. Her self-reflective projects focus on the power of language, relationships, mythologies, and control. She is a three-time finalist for Critical Mass, Photolucida, a recipient of the John Chervinsky Scholarship awarded through the Griffin Museum of Photography, and a two-time William Male Foundation Grant recipient. Georgescu’s work has been exhibited in the Athens Photo Festival, Blue Sky Gallery, Startup Art Fair LA, The Oceanside Museum of Art, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and the Center for Fine Art Photography. Recent publications include FRAMES Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, ArtDoc Magazine, Float Magazine, Too Tired, and the Missouri Review.

Jordan Tovin: More Than Just Frybread

Jordan Tovin is a documentary photojournalist (b. 2004, Atlanta, GA) pursuing a BFA in photojournalism at the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.

His work focuses on everyday experiences that reveal the dynamic and nuanced intersection of history, community, and culture through long-term visual narratives.

Tovin publishes these projects with the goal of making them accessible and affordable while also giving them the space and depth they deserve.

©Jordan Tovin
©Jordan Tovin
©Jordan Tovin

Joshua Holz: Poetic Shock

Joshua Holz is a photographer filmmaker from New York. As a director, his films have received nominations at Oscars and Canadian Screen Awards qualifying film festivals.

Developing a love of faces from filmmaking, he continued an analog film practice in 2024 with a twin-lens reflex 120 camera.

Seeing the world through a waist-level viewfinder radicalized his visual process, photographing family, pets, and memories to re-concept the idea of ‘home’.

©Joshua Holz
©Joshua Holz

JP Terlizzi: The Keeper’s Oath

JP Terlizzi is a New York City metro-based photographer whose contemporary practice explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity. His images are rooted in the personal and heavily influenced by the notion of home, legacy, and family.

He is curious about how the past relates to and intersects with the present and how the present enlivens the past, shaping one’s identity.

©JP Telrizzi
©JP Telrizzi
©JP Telrizzi

Kevin Hoth: The Fifth Channel

Kevin Hoth is an artist, father, and educator based in Boulder, Colorado. He has taught university courses in photography, digital media and graphic design at numerous universities for over twenty years and has taught at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2011. Hoth’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Houston Center for Photography, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia in Barcelona, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Photographic Center Northwest, The Center for Creative Photography, and The Rhode Island Center for Photography. Recent awards include Top 200 Critical Mass 2019, Center For Fine Art Photography Center Forward 2024, and top ten finalist for the 2018 Clarence John Laughlin Award. Hoth received his Masters of Fine Art in Photography at the University of Washington, Seattle with a focus in Video Installation. He lives on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado and regularly gets woken up by coyote howls, owl hoots and horse whinnies.

Kevin is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver, Colorado.

©Kevin Hoth
©Kevin Hoth
©Kevin Hoth

Kristen Joy Emack: Book of Saints

Kristen Joy Emack is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Saint Botolph Fellow, and a Massachusetts Cultural Arts Fellow. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, in galleries and photo festivals, and has been published in magazines including Vogue Italia, National Geographic, OATH, and The Horn Book.

She has lectured at multiple universities including Harvard, Hofstra, Curry, and Boston University. Her work is in private collections and institutions in the US, Europe, and Africa. Her first photo book, Cousins, was published in 2023 by LARTIERE.

Marco Castelli: A Micro Odyssey

Marco Castelli (b. 1991) lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Both his personal and documentary research move through a deep interest in human environment and life, looking for different approaches to visual art, digital communication, and creative storytelling.

His works have been awarded, published, and displayed internationally.

Mari Saxon: Untold Fairytale

Mari Saxon is a conceptual photographer, focusing on human diversity. Work explores unconventional beauty through conceptual and surreal portraits. Born in Moscow, now residing in Boston, US. Architect by education. She is a finalist of international contests including Critical Mass award (USA), International Photography Award by Lucie Foundation (USA), Hamdan International Photography Award (UAE), URBAN Photo Awards (Italy), Fine Art Photography Awards (UK), Hamburg Portfolio Review (DE), Belfast Photo Festival (UK), Phodar Biennial (Bulgaria).

©Mari Saxon
©Mari Saxon
©Mari Saxon

Marky Kauffmann: The Celestial Project

Marky Kauffmann is a graduate of Boston University and the New England School of Photography. She has been working as a fine art photographer, educator, and curator for more than thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist grants. Most recently, she won First Place in Soho Photo Gallery’s National Alternative Processes Competition, and was a finalist in the 7th Edition Julia Margaret Cameron Worldwide Gala Awards in three categories, including fine art, portraiture, and landscapes photography. Last summer, Kauffmann garnered an Honorable Mention in the Danforth Museum’s Art Annual Competition, juried by curator Jessica Roscio, and was part of Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200.

Michael Dorohovich: Unique Families of the Roma Community of Keldelari

Michael Dorohovich is a portrait and documentary photographer, born in 1978 in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, in the small town of Uzhgorod.

Winner of the MONOVISIONS Black & White Photography Awards 2023 (single) award. He holds a master’s degree in photography from the Kyiv University of Culture and is a teacher of audiovisual art at the Uzhgorod Academy of Culture and Arts.

Winner and prize-winner of many prestigious world awards in the field of photography. His works have received international recognition and have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Japan, India, North America, and many European countries.

Lisa Tang Liu + James Tabor (Alchemy of the Unknowns)

Lisa Tang Liu is an interdisciplinary visual artist working in photography, collage, and painting. As a naturalized U.S. citizen raised in a working-class immigrant family, she ponders the tension between belonging and alienation, as well as the meaning of being “American”. Her conceptual work examines our interconnectedness with each other and all living things. Lisa earned a BA from Wellesley College and studied at the New England School of Photography. Lisa’s work has been shown in Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, New York, Arizona, Texas, and California, and is held in several private collections. She lives with her husband Ken and their two daughters in Massachusetts.

Born on the banks of the mighty Salt River in the Sonoran desert, James David Tabor has lived as a spoken word artist, welder, bronze smith and photographer. Through his photography, he observes the extraordinary in the ordinary around him. He has been exhibiting his work in Arizona, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, Texas, and California. David resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife Sue and their dog Stout.

Ric Pontes

More information soon.

©Ric Pontes
©Ric Pontes
©Ric Pontes

Ngoc-Tran Vu: Journey

Ngoc-Tran Vu (she/her) is a 1.5-generation Vietnamese-American multimedia artist and organizer whose socially engaged practice bridges visual storytelling and community empowerment. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, she explores themes of diaspora, memory, and social justice. Based in Boston’s Dorchester community, Tran collaborates with local and national organizations to create public art that fosters intergenerational dialogue and healing.

©Tran Vu-Ngoc
©Tran Vu-Ngoc
©Tran Vu-Ngoc

Seokwoo Song: <Wandering, Wondering>

Seokwoo Song graduated from B.F.A in Department of Photography and Media, Daegu Arts University and graduated master’s degree M.F.A in Department of Photographic Design, Hongik University Graduate School of Industrial Arts. He is graduated master’s degree M.F.A in Department of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts.

Main solo exhibitions include 《The Fourth Wall》, 《Floating Motions》 and he took part in a number of group exhibitions including Daegu Photo Biennale, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Singapore International Photography Festival, and The National Museum of Finland, Museum Centre Ploshchad Mira, Cheonan Museum of Art, DongGang Museum of Photography, Donuimun Museum, ArtSpace3, WESS and others.

Main awards include receiving KYOTOGRAPHIE KG+ SELECT (2023), CRITICAL MASS TOP50 (2022), selected as an excellent portfolio in the 6th Busan International Photo Festival Portfolio Review (2022), Winner of the 18th Photography Criticism Awards (2021) and others. His works are housed in Photographic Center Northwest, Museum Centre Ploshchad Mira, DECK Contemporary Art Photography Centre, and others. He has been selected as an artist-in-residence at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Residency Goyang in 2025.

©Seokwoo Song
©Seokwoo Song
©Seokwoo Song

Shawna Gibbs: My Summer With Optimus Prime

Shawna Gibbs is a contemporary photographer and conceptual artist based in New Hampshire. She is well known for documenting the lives of her family and friends, including the well-received series, Movie Night and My Summer with Optimus Prime.

Her work has been published in several publications including Communication Arts Photography Annual, PDN Photo Annual, and American Photography. She has had her work exhibited nationally and internationally at more than fifty venues, including the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston Biennial, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Northeastern Illinois University, Currier Museum of Art, Minneapolis Photo Center, CICA Museum (Seoul), and Cape Cod Museum.

Gibbs’ work can also be seen on several prominent websites including Der Greif, Fraction Magazine, Lenscratch, and All About Photo.

©Shawna Gibbs
©Shawna Gibbs
©Shawna Gibbs

Shaoyi Zhang: Passing Merchants

Shaoyi Zhang, an award-winning portrait photographer, captures human experiences with a focus on underrepresented communities. Using photography to address social and economic issues, he blends strobe and ambient light to create striking, thought-provoking images. His work documents challenges, raises awareness, and inspires change, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of his subjects and their stories.

©Shaoyi Yang
©Shaoyi Yang
©Shaoyi Yang

Stephan Jahanshahi: Nation of Desire

Stephan Reza Jahanshahi-Ghajar is an Iranian American photographer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the MFA Photo, Video and Related Media program at SVA, he uses photography to examine how community, environment, and narrative shape experience and identity.

Stephan’s practice has explored the poetics of climate change above the Arctic Circle, the bonding experience of sport as a means of transcending divisions of race, class, and orientation in North America, and the experiences of the Iranian diaspora.

Sungchul Lee

Sungchul Lee has worked for seven years as a photojournalist and two years as a military photographer. He uses photography, installation, and performance to unravel the trauma he experienced as a photojournalist.

©Sungchul Lee
©Sungchul Lee
©Sungchul Lee

Susan Lirakis

Susan Lirakis began making photographs when she was six years old, after receiving a camera as a baptism gift from my godparents. Though the particular camera that she holds in my hands has changed over the years, it has rarely left them.

She makes photographs in an attempt to make sense of the world, and to create. For her, it is a sacred act—a process of discovery and expression.

©Susan Lirakis
©Susan Lirakis
©Susan Lirakis

Vicky Stromee

More information soon.

©Vicky Stromee
©Vicky Stromee
©Vicky Stromee

Zuya Yang: Mimicking Nature

Zuya Yang is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice observes the impacts of human actions through connection with the natural and cultural landscape. Using photography and multi-media installation, Yang captures and uses aesthetics as a clue to tackle the invisible and fleeting nuances of everyday life that show the system’s abnormalities. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.

©Zuya Yang
©Zuya Yang
©Zuya Yang

Hillerbrand+Magsamen

Hillerbrand+Magsamen are a collaborative artist duo creating video, photography, and installation works that blend humor, tension, and domestic life. Their experimental practice explores the boundaries of family and culture, with work shown internationally and supported by grants, residencies, and institutions including the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Grand Rapids Art Museum.