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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, Jose Mila-Espinoza, Linda Hammett 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

  • ©Dena Eber
  • ©Dena Eber
  • ©Dena Eber
  • ©Dena Eber
  • 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 7th, 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

  • ©Judith Donath
  • ©Judith Donath
  • ©Judith Donath
  • ©Judith Donath
  • 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

  • ©Kay McCabe
  • ©Kay McCabe
  • ©Kay McCabe
  • © Kay McCabe
  • 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

  • ©Li Shen
  • ©Li Shen
  • ©Li Shen
  • ©Li Shen
  • 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

  • ©Victor Rosansky
  • ©Victor Rosansky
  • ©Victor Rosansky
  • ©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

  • ©Gordon Saperia
  • ©Gordon Saperia
  • ©Gordon Saperia
  • ©Gordon Saperia
  • 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

  • ©Tony Attardo
  • ©Tony Attardo
  • ©Tony Attardo
  • ©Tony Attardo
  • 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.

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


    Tira Khan

  • © Tira Khan
  • © Tira Khan
  • © Tira Khan
  • Photography Atelier 39

    Posted on June 1, 2025

  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Janet Smith
  • ©Jennifer Erbe
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Megan Riley
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©l. jorj lark
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©Benita Mayo
  • ©Fran Sherman
  • ©Georgia McGuire
  • ©Irene Matteucci
  • ©Julia Buteux
  • ©Judy Katz
  • ©Linda Bryan
  • ©Stacey Ewald
  • ©Margaret Rizzuto
  • We are pleased to present the portfolios of the Photography Atelier 39 creative artists.

    Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project-building course for emerging to advanced photographers taught by Emily Belz and Jennifer McClure.

    Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the industry and the ability to edit and sequence their own work.

    Instruction in the Atelier includes visual presentations based around an assignment which is designed to encourage experimentation in both subject matter and approach. Students learn the basics of how to approach industry professionals to show their work and how to prepare for a national or regional portfolio review. There is discussion of marketing materials, do-it-yourself websites, DIY book publishing and the importance of social media. Students learn the critical art of writing an artist’s statement and bio.

    The students here were part of our year long portfolio development program from Fall of 2025 to Spring 2025 and we are thrilled to see their work in the main gallery at Winchester.

    Students of Emily Belz:

    Julie Berson | Jaina Cipriano | Janet Smith | Megan Riley | L. Jorj Lark | Donna Gordon | Craig Childs | William Feiring | Jennifer Erbe | Paul Baskett

    Students of Jennifer McClure:

    Margaret Rizzuto | Judy Katz | Francine Sherman | Georgia McGuire | Linda Bryan | Stacey Ewald | Julia Buteux | Benita Mayo | Irene Matteucci


    Students of Emily Belz:

    Paul Baskett: Uncertain Designs

  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • ©Paul Baskett
  • Tension–between truth and fiction, clarity and opacity, assurance and uncertainty–drives my image-making. I believe questions fuel creativity, and my work embraces ambiguity as a space for exploration rather than resolution.

    Uncertain Designs consists of a series of discrete images conceived as disconnected tableaux, stage sets seen just after the curtain rises and lights go up, but before actors appear or speak. In this hushed, liminal space anticipation builds, questions flourish, and narratives, still undefined, can go anywhere. These images combine multiple photographic and discrete AI-generated elements, digitally collaged and manipulated as guided by intuition, to create layered, open-ended narratives that resist fixed meaning, challenge certainty, and encourage curiosity. There are no answers here; I am, after all, only the stagehand. You are the director, the playwright. Take these sets where you will.

    As we all increasingly are bombarded by lies masquerading as truths, as authoritarian authors disparage inquiry and promote absurdities as wisdom, our ability, willingness to question, to create unbounded by dogma, is more important than ever. By blending the “real” with the constructed, I invite viewers, both here and most especially once outside the gallery, to question, to engage with the unknown, to embrace uncertainty, and to find meaning not as delivered but on their own terms.

    Julie Berson: Women Speak on the Election

  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • ©Julie Berson
  • Women’s rights were central to the 2024 election. As a woman I turned to art as a way to connect with other women in particular, across the entire political spectrum. I wanted to understand what they were thinking and feeling in these polarized times.

    I worked in two media – photography and the written word – both photographing and interviewing each woman. I wanted their words to convey their thoughts and feelings, and the intimacy of the photographic portraits to reveal what words could not. No woman is identified with any specific quote, in order to dispel stereotypes. My own preconceptions were quickly shattered as I heard the layered and sometimes surprisingly unstereotypical ideas and thoughts that were shared with me.

    The intention of this project is to bear witness to the common humanity of women from every political perspective. To offer the hope that we can reach for each with both empathy and accountability, even in the most extreme environment. In doing this work I learned that a deeper connection and understanding is possible for me and that every woman I spoke to was thirsting for the same thing, despite our differences.

    Perhaps by having one conversation at a time, one connection at a time, “bird by bird”, we can be healed.

    Craig Childs: Hardwick: Preservation of a Way of Life

  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • ©Craig Childs
  • Moving from rural Texas to Boston in the summer of 2020 I was searching for a link to home, having been away from city life for over 20 years. I found it at alocal outdoor farmer’s market, leading to friendships with several of the farmers from the village of Hardwick, Massachusetts.

    Hardwick, a township in central Massachusetts was established in 1739 and consists predominantly of the village of Hardwick, and Gilbertville, which began as a mill town in the 1860s. At first, the visitor sees a New England common of colonial era homes, buildings and churches, begging to be on a Christmas card. The surrounding small family farms, pastures, and greenhouses stand in contrast to the larger scale industrial farms of the Midwest. The village of Gilbertville, with its depression era mills, evoke memories of long departed New England textile manufacturing.

    Hardwick has become dear to this Texan’s heart. It’s a place where the residents tell the stories of local villagers who founded the town in the aftermath of King Philip’s War that opened central Massachusetts to European settlement. Stories of those who fought in the “French War”, of those who were the patriots and who were the Tories at the outbreak of the “Rev War”-all of which inform the conversations after a day of planting, or harvesting, or rebuilding a rock wall or repairing a tractor. Shay’s rebellion is discussed with respect. A place where the local farmers sell their produce in farmer’s markets, preserving a way of life inherited from colonial days.

    This ongoing photo project begins with what it means to love where you live and what you do. Yet, along side the resilience of the farmers, Gilbertville struggles yet with the poverty, crime, and joblessness left behind by the departure of manufacturing. Understanding this community requires an appreciation of these tensions, without which the narrative of the small farming community would be incomplete.

    Jaina Cipriano: The Lucky Ones

  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • ©Jaina Cipriano
  • At 17 time stops. You have forever briefly in your grasp. You remember, don’t you? Any thing was possible and nothing mattered. The future is a beautiful dream, never approaching.

    Trouble has no meaning and boundaries are meant to be pushed. To learn when to stop, you have to go too far. And you are a lucky one if you don’t write your future on an unfortunate incident.

    This time in my life has been deeply etched in my memory and I can’t let it go. It haunts me. And I think I somehow always knew it would. The photographs are visual journals, I kept a meticulous record of this time. It was the only way to cope with the change I knew was coming.

    These photographs are the last of time before the internet became a place. We wandered aimless as kids. Our flip phones, always dying and being charged on the go, gave us a way to connect- “where u at?” and that was it. Life was outside the phone.

    Now phones are an extension of ourselves. When the phone and the camera fused with smartphones photographs stopped being memories and started becoming content. Our photos weren’t personal documents anymore, they were public.

    When the camera turns on people now there is a new awareness-where will that photo go? Who will see it? And what will they think of me?

    I see a freedom in these images that is of that age, yes, but that is also of the time. We were living on the cusp of change, the very last of a free world.

    Jennifer Erbe: Dislocation

  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe
  • © Jennifer Erbe

    I was raised as an only child by adoptive parents who loved me dearly, but never really understood me. I never fit the way my mother wanted me to be. I was a curious kid who spent a lot of time by myself. I loved to explore outside, finding clay and picking wild strawberries. My hair was tangled, and invariably I had dirt on my knees, despite the smocked dresses and patent leather shoes she favored for me.

    The photographs in this project document spaces in the middle–between two worlds. Trails that wind along the Charles River and back onto commercial neighborhoods. City parks and urban residences. They contain unseen characters and stories. These places ask questions of me when I’m walking: Are these stories about the family I grew up with, or the one I never knew? Am I making narratives? Self-portraits?

    These in-between spaces feel familiar. They inhabit two opposing identities–natural beauty and practicality, industrial spaces and beautiful light, nature and concrete. The odd character of these spaces reminds me that being a little off is okay. Often there is a human presence in an unexpected place, or a portal that calls me to come and explore. Usually, though, the portals only expose more questions. Questions about myself, little hints of who I am–but no answers.

    William Feiring: Feel The Music

  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • ©William Feiring
  • The power of music is universal.

    Most of us have songs we love. Music can remind us of people, places or experiences that hold meaning for us, as well as evoke feelings of joy, excitement, or sadness. When I Listen to “Mother’s Song” by Gregory Porter, I always think of my mom and how important she was to me in my life.

    For this project, I asked people to listen to music that holds meaning for them while being photographed. I wanted to capture their emotions to the music. Some of the songs chosen I knew, and during the sitting, I often found myself absorbed by the melody or lyrics and forgetting I was supposed to be taking a photo.

    Just like the many genres of music, many kinds of feelings were evoked, from sorrow to happiness. Some were meditative as they listened, others more physically expressive. Before a session, many people voiced that they were apprehensive about being photographed, however the power of the music moved everyone beyond self-consciousness. Four days after sitting, Brown, ninety-four, told me “Been a long time since I’ve taken the time to enjoy those musical pleasures.” Eight days later Brown passed away.

    Donna Gordon: In the Garden

  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • © Donna Gordon
  • There’s a certain exchange that takes place between the figure and the landscape.  Ideas of blooming and decay, growth and awakening—all synonymous with human change and birth and aging.

    Perhaps the ultimate pairing in idea and image is a human portrait with a backdrop of Nature.  This series of portraits of women works to dispel the widespread stereotype of Eve in the Garden of Eden.  

    My portraits make visible contemporary women of many ages and backgrounds—showing their strength, diversity, imagination and vulnerability.

    Each woman—in a nod to Eve—is accompanied by a garden element—whether set in a field, farm, grotto, yard, public park or indoor setting.

    Photography witnesses that fraction of a second in which we live and breathe, the instant before moving on and morphing into something different.  Portrait photography in particular brings me face to face with a unique being—whose thoughts I think I contain for a fleeting second—before letting go.

    I. jorj lark: Urban Stutter

  • © l. jorj lark
  • © l. jorj lark
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  • © l. jorj lark
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  • Initially there were moments of reflection. I’d pick up in my camera to capture reflections upon glass or shiny surfaces, or water. Puddles, seas, raindrops. Did you know that the whole world lives upside down in a dew drop. Do you know how many dewdrops there are in the grass in the early morning? In these reflections, the cityscape was inverted, curved, managed into a multiplicity of itself. This became my notion of urban stutter. That the street environment has multiple, moving, variable points of view at any given instant. Dynamic. Irrepressible experiences that are multifaceted, fractured, refracted, reflected, repeated over and over until the myriad voices strung together create a new meaningful whole.

    The scent of wet cement, for example, and textures, and sounds, a vital gust of wind, evolved my definition and moments to capture as reflected environment. Also the notion of nature inserting herself in countless ways. And lately, as I live in wonder at the cacophony and quietude of macro to micro, it dawns on me how very many decisions have been made by individuals to concoct these environs. Stunning.

    As a street photographer, primarily, I’m moving from literal to abstract visual moments as I’m documenting “exactly” what i see. One spot can bring about impressionism, surrealism, any fine art painterly modality, all inspire me. My photography is bold. Bold colors, shapes and I give a moment for things that inhabit the sidelines or act as backgrounds in our lives to inhabit the center, to be considered elegant and sublime and meaningful.

    I feel like I’m stalking beauty. That the world itself, all of it, each singular component is ineffable, remarkable, a profound miracle of existence. The edges of texture, scent, the thunder of a working construction site all substantial, amorphous and impermanent. I wonder who made you? For what? And why are you so beautiful? Or ugly beautiful? I share these images with you in the hopes that you will see it too. On my very worst days, I remind myself that I get to see in color. Here for you are some of my best days.

    Megan Riley: Self, Preserved

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  • As I march firmly into my sixties, I can’t help but notice (and yes, participate in) the absurd lengths women–in life and on social media–go to in an attempt to stop the unstoppable, aging. We are bombarded with a staggering variety of creams, potions, procedures and exercises designed to keep us young. The results are often hilariously cringe-worthy. More horrifying than if we did nothing at all. Beneath all this lies society‘s demand for youth and perfection, and to erase the physical manifestations of a life lived. Our worth tied to how well we preserve the physical version of ourselves that once was.

    Self, Preserved is about the desire to resist time and the folly in trying to control what is meant to change. Using metaphor and humor, I explore this concept by sealing physical representations of women’s body parts (including my own) in plastic. These plastic encased objects become distorted and unnatural, just like we become the harder we try to stop the natural process of aging. The irony being that the more we attempt to preserve the bits of ourselves, the more disconnected we become from our whole, authentic self.

    Janet Smith: Unexpected Beauty

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  • Three dead hosta leaves in my driveway marked the beginnings of this project. They were pretty, all curled and graceful so I saved them. In walks around the neighborhood, I found more leaves that had let go of their anchors and so began what has become a multi-year still life project.

    My leaf collection grew to include other types of plants and new discoveries were everywhere: on walks in the woods, in fields, by ponds, at the edges of parking lots and wherever wild things grew. As I walked through the seasons, I selected new subjects based on their delicate and graceful shapes, interesting textures, and patterns of their branches.

    During this time, I also photographed the changing light on the landscapes around me and used these photos as backdrops for my still life arrangement. This process transformed simple photos of botanical forms into quiet moments where a still life and a landscape dissolved into one another.

    The plants preserved in my photographs make me marvel at finding beauty in nature where we least expect it. They are memories from seasons past and invite pause, stillness and reflection on nature and the passing of time. When I complete this project, I will say goodbye to my collections and return them to nature.


    Students of Jennifer McClure:

    Linda Bryan: Falling Leaves: Mother and Daughters

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  • Dear Mom you said you wouldn’t hit anymore love, _____. (sister)

    I recently found these words, scrawled in a child’s hand on pink origami paper, buried in a box of old report cards and other family ephemera. The message sent my mind reeling—its words didn’t align with how I remembered my mother when we were children.

    Decades after my sister wrote that note, as I sift through keepsakes saved by my mother and grandmother, I am uncovering more questions than answers. I once believed our family tree was strong and historic; now, I see it as fragile, slightly twisted, and missing limbs—much like my childhood memories.

    Within these boxes are old sepia photographs—faces of distant relatives, strangers without names or context—along with contemporary images, some bearing the weight of time, their colors fading, surfaces cracked or water-damaged. They are physical reminders of how Memory fades, distorts, or vanishes entirely.

    In one old, damaged, and out-of-focus photograph, I am sitting in a light-green Victorian chair in my grandparents’ living room. It bothers me that I can’t pull the image of the person who took the picture from my memory, nor recall the day the photo was taken. Has the photograph replaced the memory?

    When I ask my sisters about past events or old photographs, our recollections often differ widely. Which memories are real? Have the stories I’ve clung to—the ones that once defined my sense of self and family—been misinterpretations all along? Despite these uncertainties, I feel an urgent need to reconnect, to piece together the faces and events, even if it shatters what I once considered true.

    Falling Leaves is a project with many branches. By combining personal andvintage family images and objects, I create a visual dialogue on memory—both real and imagined—exploring the intricate ties between family, place,and identity. Each piece derived from my ever-shrinking branch of a largerfamily tree—one that, like memory itself, continues to shift and transform.

    Julia Buteux This Too Shall Pass

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  • Imagine my surprise when I discovered emotions are not thoughts but physical sensations-chemical responses released in the brain. For years, I carried stories of joy, injustice, shame, and frustration, believing them to be my emotions. In reality, those stories were simply thoughts I had attached to fleeting feelings.

    Science has shown that, with the exception of grief, emotions pass through the body in just ninety seconds-just a minute and a half. Yet, instead of allowing emotions to move through me by simply naming them and letting them go, I held onto them, replaying narratives that kept them alive far longer than necessary.

    This realization has profoundly shaped my artistic practice. Through my work, This Too Shall Pass, I explore the transient nature of emotion and the tension between momentary feeling and prolonged thought. Using images applied to mirrors, I create pieces that serve as meditations on what it means to experience, release, and transform emotional energy. I broke the plate and this feeling is embarrassment. My things were stolen and this feeling is anger. My mother is sick and this feeling is sadness. The mirror reflects the viewer back to themselves, making them an active participant in the work.

    An accompanying clock further reinforces this concept, offering an immersive experience of the ninety-second arc in which emotions naturally rise and fall. This added element encourages visitors to confront their own emotional attachments and consider how they engage with their feelings-whether they let them pass or prolong them through thought.

    By embracing this perspective, my work becomes a visual and temporal representation of emotion’s impermanence. It encourages self-reflection, awareness, and perhaps even liberation from the stories we tell ourselves.

    Stacey Ewald: The Allure of Darkness

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  • From childhood, we are taught to fear the dark, a primal instinct reinforced by ghost stories and the unknown. However, I have always found myself drawn to its enigmatic embrace. I am captivated by the ‘dark side’ in art, literature, and film. Even now, amidst the often difficult realities reflected in news and media, I remain pulled toward its undeniable power. Darkness is not just a landscape of danger and uncertainty, but a place of silence and contemplation, of romance and intimacy, and of unexpected beauty where the familiar fades and the unexpected blooms. It is where our instinctive fear of the unknown clashes with a deeper curiosity. We are wired to seek clarity and predictability, yet darkness offers something else: a fertile space for imagination and emotional depth.

    My work explores the lyrical power of darkness not to obscure it but to transform. The images are reimagined through shadow and absence. Within this darkness, perception slows, allowing for a closer look and a new kind of engagement, one that reveals hidden truths, sparks mystery, and offers the possibility of finding unexpected warmth in its resonant atmosphere. This is an invitation to embrace the allure of darkness, to challenge the ingrained fear and to discover what lies within the velvety rich shadows.

    Judy Katz: What Lies Ahead…

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  • I ceased making photos for many years.  Familial and professional obligations were front and center.  As we say (and so often as a woman) – “life got in the way”.  Off and on for years, reengaging with photography was on my list of things to do.  I could say that I finally had an epiphany, but it was more a simple recognition that I was at a point in life where planning for the future might come with limitations. I could either focus on regrets or check off items on my list.  I decided to act.  I retraced my steps, poring over an archive of images I had made over the years.  Several recurring themes were evident. Light and shadows, often connected to paths and portals that sometimes led to clear destinations and other times were murky in terms of the endpoint.  Hints of both movement and stillness simultaneously. 

    As part of my “re-entry routine”, I developed a routine of local photowalks.  I found that I am still drawn to exploring passageways, noting the light and patterns that seem to beckon me. Personal circumstances have limited my travel, but not the possibility of capturing gateways and openings, both obvious and obscure, that might lead anywhere.  When we are young, possibilities seem endless. As we age, we may either dwell on the past or focus on the future.

    This project focuses on paths and portals that leave us free to choose the endpoint.  In my mind, they lead to a past in which I visit with family and friends who are no longer with me, to a future centered on the growth and blossoming of grandchildren, or even to my own continuing evolution. These photos may not pull us “through the looking glass” into a  fantasy world, but we can still be challenged to decide where these paths will take us.

    Benita Mayo: Blueprint

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  • Memory is unreliable, and time has a way of bending the truth. I have always been on ajourney to unearth and examine the stories that live within me—some through my own experience, but most through inheritance.

    When Daddy suddenly passed in 2020, the tectonic plates of my life forever shifted. In an instant, I knew life would never be the same. As I find myself longing to understand the past, the impermanence of memory is palpable. I feel as if I’m racing toward an invisible finish line.

    My parents were born in Virginia, a state with an indelible imprint on America’s most painful and pivotal chapters: the rise of slavery, the Civil War, and the long struggle for civil rights.Over 350,000 men, women, and children were sold from Richmond’s auction block. Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy, and the Fall of Richmond marked the end of the CivilWar. Later, during a time of “massive resistance,” a neighboring county chose to close its public schools rather than integrate them. This was the Virginia into which my father was born.

    History and politics shaped my family’s story. They directly influenced how we were raised.The most pervasive feelings I remember from childhood were fear and loneliness. We lived with trauma, sorrow, silence, and deep wounding. But at the heart of it all, there was love—and a steadfast hope that tomorrow could be better than today.

    Toni Morrison, in The Bluest Eye, urges us not to “forgive and forget,” but to “remember and do better.” Too often, shame and embarrassment silence truth. But only through declaration and revelation can truth and insight rise. Only then can the cracks begin to mend, and healing begin.

    Much of what I have struggled with throughout my life has roots in collective trauma. In mysearch to understand what happened to me, I’ve spent 1,571 hours in therapy. It has takendecades to identify the cycles, to stop the bleeding, to clean the wound, and to begin thework of healing. For any wound to heal, this must come first. Then, in time, new tissueforms—a foundation for new skin that is stronger, more resilient.

    Through words and pictures, I recount the fierce determination of a man caught in the web of history. The deck was stacked against him. But he made a way out of no way. The calmness of the landscape conceals the quiet outrage, the mourning, and the sacred commemoration.

    Irene Matteucci: Overlooked

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  • I started this project as a way discover my new neighborhood. I looked for things that make the area unique, an urban landscape discovering its artistic side, making an effort to show that it is growing. As I
    progressed, however, it became less about the neighborhood and more about the moment. The images
    became less descriptive and more abstract, using angles, light, shadow, depth, color, and reflections to
    show the mystery in unexpected places.

    There is a sense of not knowing in these images. But maybe I don’t need to know because what I’m
    seeing is complete within itself. Photography shows the world in a way that can’t be seen with the naked
    eye, frozen in time and space. Light changes from one second to the next. One fleeing moment exists
    because I captured it, I noAced. My photographs hint at a larger story.

    As I’m moving about my world, wherever I happen to be, I am drawn to the interesting corner, the
    intriguing shape, how light illuminates, and how reflection redraws. I look from the inside out and the
    outside in. I welcome the discovery of the overlooked, giving it a voice and the chance to be seen by a
    new audience.

    Georgia McGuire: Graceful Moments

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  • Graceful Moments is a collection of photographic images that celebrate the serene elegance of nature, inspired by my transformative trip to Japan. The country’s culture and art, particularly it’s simplicity, deeply influenced my approach to photography. In an isolated portrait-style, I often focus on Japanese objects – baskets, screens, and Japanese paper – capturing their harmony with nature. The use of intentional negative space and an unusual dip in composition, create a sense of stillness, balance, and quiet reflection. An abstract angle changes one’s perspective allowing a glimpse of the intrigue outside the space. This intimately private peek into my personal world creates a wonder of moments in time.

    The project images are printed on a luminous vellum that compliments the hand gilded metal substrate creating a unique work of art. Each piece is then cold waxed and hand buffed to bring out the translucent beauty of the gold leaf.

    The process of photographing, whether inside or outside, is deeply meditative for me, inviting mindfulness and an appreciation for the delicate importance of nature. It also draws parallels from transient beauty found in nature, much like the fleeting moments captured in Japanese Haiku poetry.

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    With stillness in the day’s air,
    Time slips through my hands.

    ~ Georgia McGuire

    Margaret Rizzuto: Dare Me

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  • ‘Invisibility Syndrome’ isn’t a metaphor—it’s a lived experience. As women age,we are dismissed, overlooked, and essentially invisible. It doesn’t seem to matter how brilliant, beautiful, or accomplished we’ve been—we vanish. No one is exempt. I know—because I’m living it. And I’ve come to realize I’m far from alone.

    While this is a deep and often painful truth, I was determined that this project not feel hopeless. I want to illuminate it, to name it, and to push back—loudly. No—no, we do not have to accept this erasure. We will not accept it. Dare Me is a refusal. It’s also a reclamation.

    It has taken us a lifetime to arrive at this place—through pain and joy, growth and hard-won wisdom—and we deserve not just to be seen, but, dare I say, celebrated.

    To bring this evolution into visual form, I found an unlikely ally: Flo, a beautifully crafted, mature doll from Poland. She became my muse for this project, embodying the vulnerability, acceptance, and defiance of aging with grace and a little humor. This work is for every woman who’s been made to feel small in the very years she’s grown into her full power.

    We’ve earned the right to be seen—fully, fiercely. The dare is ours to take.

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    The background for these images is a photograph of aging tulip petals that have fallen from their stems. They remind me that beauty may transform with time, but it does not disappear…

    Fran Sherman: My 70th Year

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  • In my 70th year, I feel unmoored as I navigate life in retirement, without the urgency of family and work that was my reality for so many years. The open space is both unsettling and exciting.

    In the chaos of raising a family and building a career, I found structure and purpose. Life was busy but also felt full and limitless. Now I have more time than ever each day, but I have fewer years ahead of me. Life is full of contradictions—I am grateful for all I have yet eager for more; energetic yet tired; creative yet stuck. Time is expansive and compressed, moving slowly and quickly at once.

    Conversations with my peers confirm that they too are figuring out who they are and how to make the most of time as they age. We haven’t changed, but less is demanded of us at a time when we have so much to give.

    My 70th Year is an ongoing photographic journal. Using a documentary photography approach, I make pictures of my daily life to better understand how I am feeling and where I am going. Still lives reflect parts of me, and long exposures, focus, collage, and images in series, show the way my life feels embedded in and experienced through the lens of time.

    31st Annual Members Juried Exhibition

    Posted on June 1, 2025

    We are thrilled to announce the artists of the 31st Annual Members Juried Exhibition.

    After selecting 68 images from almost 1500, from over 300 artists submitted, we are pleased to announce the members who will be featured on the walls of the Griffin Museum this summer.

    We are thrilled to announce this years award winners –

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  • The Arthur Griffin Legacy Award Winner – Fruma Markowitz, Hilloulah to the East and
    to the West

    The Griffin Lens Award – Marky Kauffmann, Red Cloud Dress

    Honorable Mention – Julia Cluett, Jeff Larason, Brian Kosoff, Gail Samuelson and Stephanie Slate

    Director’s Prize – Preston Gannaway (Remember Me)

    Exhibition Prize – Lisa McCord (Rotan Switch)


    Exhibition Artists include –

    Stephen Albair, Julia Arstorp, Robert David Atkinson, Robin Bailey, Diana Bloomfield, Sally Chapman, Diana Cheren Nygren, Julia Cluett, Donna Cooper, Donna Dangott, Sandi Daniel, Adrienne Defendi, Becky Field, Preston Gannaway, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, Donna Gordon, Joe Greene, Jackie Heitchue, Judi Iranyi, Susan Isaacson, Marky Kauffmann, Susan Keiser, Lali Khalid, Karen Klinedinst, Brian Kosoff, Alison Lake, Celia Lara, Jeff Larason, Phil Lewenthal, Susan Lirakis, Landry Major, Fruma Markowitz, Cheryl Medow, Carolyn Monastra, Judith Montminy, C.E. Morse, Jim Nickelson, Charlotte Niel, David Oxton, Allison Plass, Robin Radin, Mary Reeve, Astrid Reischwitz, Nancy Roberts, Lee Rogers, Gail Samuelson, Gordon Saperia, Jeff Sass, Mari Saxon, Jeff Schewe, Li Shen, Anastasia Sierra, Frank Siteman, Stephanie Slate, Cynthia Smith, Janet Smith, Vanessa R. Thompson, Vaune Trachtman, Leanne Trivett S, Leslie Twitchell, Terri Unger, Alan Wagner, Anne Walker, Suzanne Theodora White, Thomas Winter, Torrance York, Michael Young and Yelena Zhavoronkova

    Join us for the opening reception on July 11th from 6 to 8pm. Our juror will be in attendance.

    Thank you to Ann Jastrab from Center for Photographic Art, Carmel for a beautiful exhibition.

    Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions — including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts — evolved out of CPA’s predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery. Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center and the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery, both in San Francisco.

    Alina Saranti | Far From

    Posted on June 1, 2025

    The Griffin is pleased to present the work of Alina Saranti as part of our celebration of our member artists. Ms. Saranti was included in our 30th Annual Juried Members exhibition, winning the Directors Prize.

    In my project “Far From” I want to make visible what landscape photography can look like for a female photographer with child rearing responsibilities.  I combine landscape photographs of the American West with embroidery to challenge the masculinity of traditional landscape photography and the myth of the West. Landscape photography was traditionally dominated by male photographers as it was deemed unsafe and impractical for women who were constrained to the domestic sphere, close to their housekeeping and child rearing duties. The myths of the American West, its rugged, open, wild landscape have also been closely associated with macho masculinity, the idea of the independent, tough man, ready to draw on his weapon, to conquer and defend the land. Landscape photography also contributed to the history of conquest of the West with its role in surveying and controlling.

    Embroidery, on the other hand, has been traditionally labelled as women’s work. It has been seen as something that women can do within the safety of the home, producing artifacts to decorate its interior, keeping them out of harm’s way and out of trouble, compatible with their domestic duties and especially child rearing as it can be put aside and resumed at will. Landscape photography was deemed too far, too dangerous, too incompatible with being a woman.

    Things have changed and landscape photography is open to female photographers now. Or is it? I made the black and white landscape photographs used in this project at the fringes of family trips. I embroidered them in the safety of my home, between school drops offs and pickups, kids’ illnesses, and school holidays, often with children in the same room, the work repeatedly interrupted and resumed. I am drawing on the history of embroidery as both a symbol of female submission and a weapon of resistance for women, and overlaying that to the masculinity of landscape photography and the American West. Stitching usually has to do with mending or embellishing; my marks are the feminine overlaying the masculine, they are imposing on it, cracking it open, splitting it apart, growing into it.

    About Alina Saranti –

    Alina Saranti is a Greek photographic artist currently living in Los Angeles, having also lived in the UK and Turkey. Her work begins autobiographically and explores the synergies and tensions between text and image, the physical alteration of the photographic print, as well as themes of motherhood, place, our inner and outer landscapes, the personal and political.

    After a ten-year career in journalism in Athens and London, writing mainly about international politics, she has shifted her focus to telling stories through photographic projects. Saranti received a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, an MSc in International Relations from London School of Economics, and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (Distinction).

    Saranti has won Director’s Prize at the Griffin Museum’s Annual Juried Members Exhibition, Honorable Mention at the Julia Margaret Cameron Award and at the Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Annual Members Exhibition. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in Athens, Barcelona, Boston, Calgary and New York. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The Boston Globe, Opt West, Aesthetica Magazine, Source, Black River Magazine, Global Zoo Zine, and the Imagined Landscape Journal.

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • Veil Nebula Mosaic RASA NGC6960 HOO
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  • 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.

  • Approaching Grey Glacier
  • Dueling Pinnacles
  • Meeting
  • Ice and Rock
  • Movement

  • 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.

  • Porcelain Berry Study
  • Japanese Knotweed Room
  • Bittersweet Room
  • Air Potato Shower
  • Porcelain Berry Room

  • 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.

  • Departure, Inshere
  • Fortress, Heraklion
  • Women and Babies, Macedonia
  • Train from the Train, Turkey
  • Tea House, Herat, Afghanistan

  • 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.

  • Faultlines
  • Illusory Truth
  • No Hard Feelings
  • Such Great Heights
  • Truly Madly Deeply

  • 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.

  • backwards and forwards
  • The shadow of the friend
  • A present through past
  • Into the blur
  • Home walks with me, Away walks with me

  • 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.

  • No Privacy
  • Little Sad Secrets
  • Whitewashed
  • Group Project
  • Wash Away My Sins

  • 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.

  • Life of the Land I
  • Life of the Land II
  • Life of the Land III
  • Life of the Land IV
  • Life of the Land V
  • André Ramos-Woodard | BLACK SNAFU

    Posted on May 30, 2025

    Anti-Blackness seems inescapably mixed into whatever context I place it into; literature, science, government, health, art… look into any “field” and see for yourself. My people have had to cry, scream, and fight for respect for centuries, and we still have not gained what we deserve. To move past the damage this has done to our society, we can’t simply deny our history—we must recognize it. We must acknowledge the many ways in which this country has perpetuated a racial hierarchy since these lands were first colonized and stripped from indigenous peoples, and Black people were stolen from their native land and brought to America.
    In BLACK SNAFU (Situation Niggas: All Fucked Up), I appropriate various depictions of Black people that I find throughout the history of cartooning and juxtapose them with photographs that celebrate and line up more authentically with my Black experience. The photographs I create vary in subject matter; I seek to include celebratory portraits, didactic still lives, and representational documentations of places rich in their relation to Black community, allowing me to fight back against the history of the racist caricature that I reclaim in my work. By combining these ambivalent visual languages, I intend to expose to viewers America’s deplorable connection to anti-Black tropes through pop culture while simultaneously celebrating the reality of what it means to be Black.

    About André Ramos-Woodard

    Raised in the Southern states of Tennessee and Texas, André Ramos-Woodard (he/they) is a photo-based artist who uses their work to emphasize the experiences of marginalized communities while accenting the repercussions of contemporary and historical discrimination.
    His art conveys ideas of communal and personal identity, influenced by their direct experience with life as a queer African American. Focusing on Black liberation, queer justice, and the reality of mental health, he aspires for his art to help bring power to the people.
    Selected for Foam Museum’s Foam TALENT Award in 2024 and a two-time top-50 Finalist for Photolucida’s Critical Mass (in 2020 and 2023), Ramos-Woodard has shown their work at various institutions across the United States a beyond, including the Foam Museum–The Netherlands, Amsterdam, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston–Houston, Texas, Leon Gallery–Denver, Colorado, and FILTER Photo–Chicago, Illinois. He received his BFA from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and his MFA at The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    We are grateful to the Cummings Foundation for their support of the arts and the Griffin Museum. The Cummings Residency program highlights artists of diverse backgrounds and using their specific skill set, work to create a photographically based exhibition as a result of their connection to the Griffin Museum, Winchester and surrounding areas, while engaging in critical dialogues about art and culture with both the youth and adult community they inhabit. Using photography as a bridge to building relationships, the Cummings Fellow creates a series of images opening up the pathways to multicultural understanding and acceptance. The museum and its partners are creating a literacy program centered around imagery, using photography as the tool, working with professional artists to talk about their communities, cultures and new and shared origin stories.

    Francisco Gonzalez Camacho | Reverting

    Posted on May 25, 2025

    We are pleased to present the solo exhibition of Griffin artist member Francisco Gonzalez Camacho. Selected for an exhibition prize during our 30th Annual Juried Members Exhibition by Director Crista Dix, Camacho’s works are visual, emotional moments, finding calm among the landscape. We are pleased to showcase his series of works during our celebration of our creative community this summer.

    Reverting –

    Reverting reflects upon the profound material connection between the landscape and image-making, exploring environmental issues and the objectification of nature in Iceland.

    Developed in Reykjavík with the SIM artist-in-residence program, this project merges photography and printmaking through material experimentation, seeking alternative ways to engage with the landscape.

    Issues like gentrification, waste, and environmental degradation, largely driven by tourism, challenge the idealized image of Iceland’s natural beauty. During my stay, I photographed highly visited natural locations, which I reinterpreted in combination with the creation of my own handmade recycled paper from waste.

    This exploration mirrors the transformative process of manifesting something from the void —a form of alchemy of waste— with the delicate equilibrium of our environment, and the perpetual cycle it follows.

    About Francisco Gonzalez Camacho –

    Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist based in Finland.

    Gonzalez Camacho’s work presents a process-based approach interweaving photography and graphic printing methods. His practice is a result of intuitive exploration centered around themes such as materiality, immigration and the connectedness between landscape and self.

    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.

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  • 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.

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    Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

    At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

    This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

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    Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

    connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

    mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

    sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

    about the world and about one’s self.

     

    John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

    it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

    as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

    explore the human condition.

     

    Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

    a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

    and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

    experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

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