Griffin Museum of Photography

Frank Siteman | Our Town

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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

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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

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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

15th Annual Photobook Exhibition | 2025

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The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of photobooks. Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format. We celebrate this form of artistry and want to see the photobooks our community is working on. Juried by Karen Davis, Curator and Co-owner of Davis Orton Gallery, and Crista Dix, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum, our 15th Annual Photobook exhibition will showcase 40 photobooks books in our Griffin Gallery & Library during the summer of 2025.

We are pleased to present the books of –

Adrian Schaub, Andrew M K Warren, Brad Hamilton, Brandon Movall, Candice DiCarlo, Chantal Zakari, Conner Gordon, Courtney Johnson, David Rathbone, Diane Hemingway, Ellen Feldman, Fern Nesson, Gay Johnson, Geir & Kate Jordahl, Greg DeLory, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Irene Reti, James Collins, Jose Ney Mila Espinosa, Joshua Deaner, Lisa Tang Liu & J. David Tabor, Lucia Ravens, Michael King, Michael Seif, Nancy Farese, Nata Drachinskaya, Robert Kalman, Regina Anzenberger, Sarah Putnam & Darlene DeVita, Sean Perry, Shari Diamond, Stephen Albair, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, Susan J. Preston, Suzi Grossman, Thomas Winter, Timothy Hearsum, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Tsai Wei Tseng, Victoria Crayhon, Whitney Browne, William Harting, William Mark Somer, Leah Abrahams & Ruth Broyde Sharone, and Terrell Otey

About the Jurors:

Karen Davis, Co-owner & Curator, Davis Orton Gallery.

Karen is a teacher, gallerist and photographer. For over 15 years she taught Photography Atelier, a portfolio development course in the Boston area at Radcliffe Institute, Lesley University and, most recently, at the Griffin Museum of Photography. She now teaches Portfolio Development and Marketing for Fine Art Photographers and The Self Published Photobook Workshop ONLINE for the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Karen is co-owner and curator of the Davis Orton Gallery. She has been an invited reviewer of portfolios at the New England Portfolio Reviews, Photolucida in Portland OR, FotoFest in Houston TX and Critical Mass (online/Photolucida) and Magenta Foundation’s Fence project.

Her photographs are in the collections of the CPW, Kingston NY, the Lishui Museum of Photography (China), and the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, and can be seen at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).

Karen is a Critical Mass finalist and recipient of the CPW Artists Fellowship Award. Her word/image book, Still Stepping: A Family Portrait, was published in 2020. A second edition (2022) is available at The Spotty Dog Bookstore in Hudson, Inquiring Mind Bookstore in Saugerties NY, and the Davis Orton Gallery  website. Her photographs, photobooks and artist books have appeared in solo and featured exhibits throughout the country.

Crista Dix, Executive Director, Griffin Museum

Crista Dix has spent the last two decades as part of and surrounded by the creative community of photography, serving as the executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography and previously as the owner of Wall Space Creative. With a passion for visual storytelling, Dix has dedicated her career to promoting and curating photographic artistry. wall space had locations in Seattle and Santa Barbara, showcased emerging and established photographers, fostering dialogue and appreciation for the medium. As the executive director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, located in Winchester, Massachusetts, Dix continues to elevate photographic narratives, offering a platform for diverse voices and perspectives within the art form. With a keen eye for innovation and a commitment to fostering community engagement, Dix’s leadership continues to shape the landscape of contemporary photography, inspiring creative artists and enthusiasts alike. Ms. Dix has written essays about photography, introducing creative artists work to a broader community. She has been a member of numerous panels and discussions on the craft of photography, juried creative competitions and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country in cities like Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans.

Handmade Photobook Exhibition 2025

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Handmade photography books transcend the digital realm, offering a tangible and deeply personal experience. They are more than mere collections of images; they are crafted narratives. The unique quality of a handmade photobook lies in its tactile nature, where texture, style, and craft converge. The selection of paper, the binding technique, and the attention to detail all contribute to a sensory tangible object of beauty. Each page invites the viewer to not only see, but also to feel the story within. This dedication to craftsmanship elevates the photobook from a simple album to a cherished artifact, a testament to the photographer’s vision and the enduring power of physical media.

This year is the first year we have a unique exhibition for handmade photobooks. Unlike our self published works, this call for entry requires the hand of the artist in the manufacture and production of the book and its contents.

We are thrilled to have Sangyon Joo, founder of Datz Press as our juror for this call. Datz Press produces high quality monographs that are beautiful objects themselves.

We are pleased to present this group of participating artists –

Andy Richter, Bobby Lee, Dawn Surratt, Elysabeth Cianci, Forest Woodward, Hsing-Chia Hsieh, Iris Grimm, Johnna Arnold, Jose Mila Espinosa, Larry Volk, Laura Blacklow, Lester Picker, Lisa McCarty, McCall Hollister, Megan Sinclair, Melanie Schoeniger, Nancy Farese, Paula McCartney, Suzi Grossman, and Sylvie Redmond

About Sangyon Joo
Sangyon Joo was born in Seoul, Korea. She earned her BFA from Seoul National University in 1994 and her MFA from Hongik University in 1999. She studied with Linda Connor and received a second MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2010, she founded Datz Press and Datz Museum, focusing on photography and book. Since beginning her career as an artist, she has continues to exhibit her work in book form and present it at numerous international art book fairs. Recently, she published Other Ways of Being and held a solo exhibition at Datz Frame. Her works have been featured internationally and are included in numerous private and public collections. She has been deeply engaged in international cross-cultural art exchanges as both an artist and a creative director.

About Datz Press
Founded in 2010, Datz Press is an art book publisher based in Seoul, Korea, specializing in creating, publishing, and exhibiting photography-centered books.
Datz Press publications preserve and share artists’ work by carefully adapting each book to best represent the artist’s vision. They also serve as an alternative exhibition space for artists, fostering artistic exchange that enriches life through photography and books. Over the past fifteen years, Datz Press has published more than 90 titles, which are included in numerous private and public collections.
Datz Press also operates the Datz Museum of Art in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, and D’Ark Room in Seoul.

To see more about Datz Press, please visit their website.

Vision(ary)

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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.

  • © Anna Mia Davidson
  • ©Anna Mia Davidson

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.

  • ©Camille Nivollet
  • ©Camille Nivollet
  • ©Camille Nivollet

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.

  • ©Carolina Baldomá
  • ©Carolina Baldomá
  • ©Carolina Baldomá

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 Khan
  • ©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.

  • ©Jennifer Georgescu
  • ©Jennifer Georgescu
  • ©Jennifer Georgescu

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.

  • ©Kristen Joy Emack
  • ©Kristen Joy Emack
  • ©Kristen Joy Emack

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.

  • ©Marco Castelli
  • ©Marco Castelli
  • ©Marco Castelli

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.

  • ©Marky Kauffmann
  • ©Marky Kauffmann
  • ©Marky Kauffmann

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.

  • ©Michael Dorohovich
  • ©Michael Dorohovich
  • ©Michael Dorohovich

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.

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  • ©Lisa Tang Liu + James Tabor

Ric Pontes

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  • ©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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©Stephan Jahanshahi

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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©Susan Lirakis
  • ©Susan Lirakis

Vicky Stromee

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  • ©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.

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  • ©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.

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  • ©Hillerbrand+Magsamen
  • ©Hillerbrand+Magsamen

Jill Enfield | Glasshouse of New Americans

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The Griffin Museum is pleased to present on our Griffin Rotary Terrace Jill Enfield’s powerful installation, Glasshouse of New Americans.

“…this ever-evolving diversity challenges the idea of a single dominant vision of the American identity, encouraging Americans to embrace inclusion and pluralism.” – Ellis Island Museum.

Titled “The New Americans,” this physical display explores heritage, genealogy, and homeland.

Artist Jill Enfield remarks on her project – My personal connection to immigration, with my paternal relatives fleeing Frankfurt, Germany, in 1939, inspired a project honoring immigrants’ integral role in society and acknowledging the challenges they continue to face to this day. Combining 19th century wet collodion ambrotypes with digital scanning and 21st -century printing, I sought to merge traditional and digital photographic practices. The distressed exterior window frames forming the glasshouse were sourced from abandoned side roads, flea markets, and construction sights, symbolizing the precarious nature of immigration that still exists today.

The wet collodion process references the technique used to document immigrants passing through Ellis Island in the 1800’s. By blending historical and contemporary elements, I aimed to created portraits reflecting both the historic technique and the present-day reality of immigration.

Photography, reliant on the interplay of time and light, becomes a narrative journey during the prolonged exposures required by the wet collodion process. The resulting stillness allows the viewer to step into the photographer’s and the subjects’ shared experience, capturing the far-reaching heritage and stories encoded in each subject’s eyes. Once assembled, the glasshouse becomes an interactive experience. Visitors can walk around and through it, casting shadows that add a dynamic element to the portraits. The glasshouse serves as a metaphor for the diversity that makes up our country – each panel contributing to its strength. If you removed one panel, the house would fall.

The phrase “Those in glass houses should not throw stones” gains poignant meaning as viewers gaze into the eyes of the New Americans, realizing that we are all immigrants. This understanding of heritage and history is crucial for fostering a more empathetic and compassionate future.

Tony Loreti | Illuminating The Archive

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

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

About Tony Loreti

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

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

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

Our Town 2025

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The Griffin is celebrating the beauty of Winchester in Summer of 2025.

As part of our summer public art project, Vision(ary), Our Town will be located on the grounds of the Winchester Town Common. We are excited to see the vision of the Winchester community including hobbyists using a phone camera as well as photographers both amateur and professional of any age taking us on a visual journey, documenting the people, places, and moments that define our town.

From the local businesses and street corners, along the Riverwalk and bike pathway every part of the town holds a story waiting to be told. Through candid portraits, scenic landscapes, and snapshots of everyday life, the Our Town project aims to create a vibrant tapestry of images that reflect the diverse spirit of our town.

The initiative not only celebrates the beauty of our surroundings but also fosters a deeper connection among neighbors. In our third year presenting this collection of images we are building a collective memory, preserving the unique character of our town for generations to come.

We invited the residents of Winchester to discover the extraordinary moments within the ordinary spaces we call home.

Thank you to all of our participating artists – Jenna Brown, Justin Cole, Hilda Wong Doo, David Feigenbaum, Trish Gannon, Joyce Maxwell, Georgia McGuire, Mario Moreira and Christina Rose

Combining landscapes, still-lifes, portraiture, and more, Our Town invites you to witness individual moments woven into a broader community narrative of Winchester.

Our Town is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors: The Griffin Exhibitions Committee, Griffin Directors Circle Patrons and The Winchester Cultural District. We are also grateful for the support of the En Ka Society, Winchester Savings Bank, Winchester Rotary and Winchester Cultural Council.

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Emilio Rojas: m(O)thers

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Emilio Rojas: m(O)thers

The ongoing series of video portraits, “m(Other)s,” references the 19th-century “hidden mother” photographs. The Victorian genre of photography captured infants sitting on their mothers’ laps, who were unceremoniously covered with blankets—designating them as apparatuses to prop up the children. Long exposure times for early photography required the children to sit still, often with failed results and slightly blurred images. The resulting photographs featured ghostly children perched atop uncanny hidden figures. These video portraits cite this early form of photography while reimagining it with Latinx immigrant and undocumented mothers and their children, derrogatorily referred to as “anchor babies.” A controversial term used in xenophobic rhetoric to refer to a child born to a non-citizen mother in a country that has birthright citizenship.

In each site the series is realized, Rojas films and compensates local immigrant and undocumented mothers made invisible underneath a star-spangled banner (with more than 50 stars), holding their children. The mothers’ narratives—anonymized and in their mother tongue of Spanish—share their stories of sacrifice and resilience, but also illuminate their maternal labor rendered invisible, or “othered,” by immigration legislation and xenophobia.

All images courtesy the artist.

About the Artist

Emilio Rojas (Mexico City, 1988) is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist working primarily with the body in performance, using video, photography, installation, public interventions, and sculpture. As a queer, Latinx immigrant with Indigenous heritage, it is essential to his practice to engage in the postcolonial ethical imperative to uncover, investigate, and make visible and audible undervalued or disparaged sites of knowledge, narratives, and individuals. He utilizes his body in a political and critical way, as an instrument to unearth removed traumas, embodied forms of decolonization, migration, and poetics of space. His research-based practice is heavily influenced by queer and feminist archives, border politics, botanical colonialism, and defaced monuments.

His work has been exhibited in exhibitions and festivals in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Japan, Austria, England, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Colombia, and Australia, as well as institutions such as The Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual Museum and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Surrey Art Gallery, The DePaul Art Museum, SECCA, the Syracuse University Museum of Art, The Johnson Museum of Art, The Park Avenue Armory, and the Botin Foundation.He holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.F.A. in Film from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada.

From 2019-2022 Rojas was a Visiting Artist in Residency in the Theater and Performance Department at Bard College in New York. He has taught in the M.F.A. programs at Parsons the New School and the low-res M.F.A. programs at PNCA in Portland, Oregon, and University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. From Fall 2022 to the Fall of 2024 he was a full-time visiting critic at Cornell University in the School of Art, Architecture and Planning. 

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