Griffin Museum of Photography

Michael Hintlian The Big Dig

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Michael Hintlian spent extensive days working beside the construction workers of the Central Artery/ Tunnel Project. Unofficial and without permission, he continued to return and photograph until the construction was over. Thus his project came to an end. His dedication and love for handmade work served as the inspiration for his own work.

Hintlian’s series, The Big Dig, will be on display in the Griffin’s satellite gallery, The Griffn@ SoWa at 530 Harrison from October 4th through December 4th, 2016.

“From the get-go, the idea of this work had little to do with the landmark phases of the construction though some of the ribbon-cutting ceremonies provided interesting picture opportunities,” said Hintlian. He goes on to say, “Instead, it was about how these amazing assets were created, which was mostly by hand. This act of becoming, where men and women created and built with their hands, was how I saw the Big Dig.”

Michael Hintlian’s work has appeared in major U.S. dailies and international periodicals, and has been widely exhibited and collected. His photo-documentary Digging: The Workers of Boston’s Big Dig was published in 2004. Hintlian has served on the faculties of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New School for Social Research, and Parsons School of Design, New York. Currently he heads the Documentary Photography department at New England School of Photography in Boston.

Sandy Alpert and Arthur Griffin Ghosts Who Now Dance

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Sandy Alpert’s photographs resemble detached figures, ghostly shadows within shadows that represent her own ghosts from the past. These beautiful figures created by negative space and light are visually similar to the long shadows dancing across the frames captured by our very own founder, Arthur Griffin.
Sandy Alpert’s, Ghosts Who Now Dance, will be featured in the Griffin Museum’s Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, MA, September 20 – November 27, 2016. Alongside Alpert’s work, three of Arthur Griffin’s pieces will be exhibited. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 29, 2016 from 6:30-8:00PM.

“When I began this project in 1998, I was haunted by the ghosts of my past, Feelings of isolation and loss infused these images. I was too close to it. It was too close to me. I had to leave it—unexpressed,” says Sandy Alpert. “As I now reflect upon these images, I see a sense of grace. I see fluidity. I see a silent rhythm. I see ghosts who now dance. The realization of this work is, in itself, an act of forgiveness. Forgiveness of others and of myself,” she goes on to say.

Sandy Alpert is an award-winning photographer and composer. Her photographs have been exhibited in many national and international; galleries, and are in many public and private collections including The Museum of the City of New York and the International Center of Photography School/ Education Gallery Collection, NYC. Her scores for musical theater productions have been produced off-Broadway.

By mid 1930s, Arthur Griffin became the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe, Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time Magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post—a two-page layout on New England. One of Arthur’s biggest gifts to photography was the non-profit Arthur Griffin Center for Photographic Art, or as it is now call, The Griffin Museum of Photography. The Griffin Museum houses his archives of over 75,000 images and provides gallery space for rotating exhibitions devoted to the art of photography.

Joshua Sariñana, PhD Prosopagnosia

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Joshua Sariñana’s photographs are representations of his travels back in time to memories from the past and present. These images allude to his early adulthood memories of love, wonder and isolation. Sariñana says that using imagery to ignite feelings that are difficult to confront, can provide a nostalgic relief as one grows.

Sariñana’s series, Prosopagnosia, is featured in the Griffin’s satellite gallery, The Griffin@Digital Silver Imaging, from October 4th through December 4th, 2016. A reception will take place on November 10, 2016 from 6­8pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

“As a neuroscientist, I know that memories are inaccurate,” says Sariñana. “Whenever a memory is recalled it is changed. Brain regions become reactivated when a meaningful cue (the smell of a loved ones t-shirt, a melancholy song, a picture of a childhood friend) presents itself. The reactivated brain becomes susceptible to change for a shorts time, allowing new information or feelings to be inserted and integrated into our past experiences or potentially peeled away from psychological access,” he says.

Sariñana obtained his neuroscience degrees at the University of California and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but is currently a writer and fine arts photographer. Joshua’s photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been shown at the SoHo Art house, the Houston Center for Photography, the Mobile Camera Club Gallery in Paris, and at Photo Independent in Los Angeles. Joshua work has been featured on Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, and “Time Magazine”. Most recently, he has been published in the photography publications Don’t Take Pictures and The Smart View. He has been interviewed on various blogs such as like Vice Magazine.

Griffin Museum Portfolio 2015 at Colson Gallery

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In late 2015, I invited ten photographers to participate in a limited edition portfolio for the museum. A print from the museum’s founder Arthur Griffin was also included. The photographers are: Caleb Cole, Blake Fitch, Matthew Gamber, Arthur Griffin, Stella Johnson, Lou Jones, Brian Kaplan, Asia Kepka, Greer Muldowney, Neal Rantoul and Aline Smithson.

The portfolio is not a definitive study on photography, rather it is a sampling of contemporary photographers who have made their mark on the medium and have contributed greatly to shaping the spirit of the museum. In my thinking about these eleven photographers I chose images that seemed to hold together as a collective parcel and would continue to endure.

Paula Tognarelli
Executive Director and curator
Griffin Museum of Photography

If you are interested in purchasing the portfolio or learning more about The Griffin Contemporary please call Paula Tognarelli, executive director and curator at 781-721-2765

Retail price $2200

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The Mysterious World of the Camera Obscura, Marian Roth

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Marian Roth has been making images for the past 35 years in the natural world of her village in Provincetown. Most recently the work she produces is made exclusively inside the cameras she has made and inhabits. Instead of photographing onto paper negatives from the camera obscura, she photographs the actual projected image, capturing light and time.

Roth’s series, The Mysterious World of the Camera Obscura, is featured in the Atelier Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography on September 8th through October 2, 2016. Also starting on September 8th, will be the installation of Roth’s camera obscura in the Griffin gallery. The installation will be up throughout the exhibition. The public is invited to observe the installation on September 8th beginning at noon. An opening reception will be held at the Griffin Museum on Thursday, September 15, 2016 from 5pm to 6:30pm. Marian Roth will give a talk on September 15, 2016 from 6:30 to 8pm. An RSVP is required. All of the events listed above are part of the Somerville Toy Camera Festival.

“As a visual artist obsessed with time and light, working inside a camera obscura is a magical experience for me: sitting in the darkness, letting light in through apertures I have cut out of tarpaper, arranging and re-arranging focal planes, waiting until something mysterious happens.” Says Roth. “ And if I can’t have my darkroom anymore, the camera obscura, with its tiny slits of light, is a wonder-filled cave to explore,” she said.

Marian Roth is a self-taught photographer and visual artist who has been working with the camera obscura imagery for the past three decades.  She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship, and this past year has been working with a fellowship from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Marian has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

Photography Atelier 24

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The Photography Atelier 24 will present an exhibit of student artwork from September 8th to October 2nd, 2016. The Atelier is a course for intermediate and advanced photographers offered by the Griffin Museum of Photography. You are invited to come view the photographs at the Griffin Museum, 67 Shore Road, Winchester, Massachusetts 01890.

On Thursday, September 8th, the public is invited to attend the artists’ opening night reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Griffin Museum.

Photography Atelier Instructor and Photographer Meg Birnbaum shared, “The Photography Atelier has such a long and rich history, I’m honored to be leading this workshop for emerging photographers with Amy Rindskopf assisting. The talent among the 16 members of this group show is varied and inspiring — from our relationship with nature to sports, portraits, ephemera and still lifes — the show is very satisfying feast for the eyes and soul.”

Work by 2016 Atelier 24 members includes:

Amy Rindskopf: Reflected, portraits of an alternate self; Charan Devereaux: Union Square at Work, photographs from Somerville’s oldest commercial district; Conrad Gees: Bosque Mágico de la Habana: Images taken in Havana’s Forest a metaphor for Cuba today; Cynthia Johnston: Altars, a retrospective exploration of family memories utilizing still life studies; David Poorvu: People in Motion, images of athletes in action; Dennis Geller: Studios: Seeing inside the spaces in which art is created; Edward Boches: The Skateboarder’s Canvas:  Capturing the curves, shadows, angles and inclines of an urban skate park; Joel Howe: Nature Scrolls, landscape experiments with light, shadow, and movement; Kay Corry Aubrey: A Walk along the Swift River on Father’s Day 2016, magical images of rainbow trout; Leah Abrahams: Cubism Revisited,  images re-creating classical Cubist portraiture in photography; Maria A. Verrier: Birds of Sorrow, a visual narrative that explores the universal emotions of grief and the struggle to find meaning in death; Mark Thayer: Defining Wealth, the delicacy of nature finds a foothold in the material world; Meghan Cronin: Wonderful Water, satisfying curiosity with the visualization of every day objects in aqueous environments; Tony Attardo: Collectively Full Circle Images capturing bicycle refurbishment for low income children and teens; Vivian Poey: Trajectories (or where I stand): represents a family history of place, migration and exile; Will Daniels: In Louisiana, images captured while reconnecting with my father in an unfamiliar land.

About the class:

Photography Atelier, in its twentieth year, is a unique portfolio-making course for emerging to advanced photographers. In addition to guidance and support in the creation of a body of work, the class prepares artists to market, exhibit, and present their work to industry professionals.

Each participant in the Atelier presents a final project in the form of a print portfolio, a photographic book or album, a slide show, or a mixed media presentation. In every Atelier, students hang a gallery exhibition and produce work for their own pages on the Atelier website. To see the photography of present and past Atelier students and teachers, please visit www.photographyatelier.org.  Instructor Meg Birnbaum will be happy to discuss the Photography Atelier at the reception on September 8th with anyone interested in joining the class.

22nd Juried Show: The Peter Urban Legacy Exhibition

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The juror for the Griffin’s Juried show this year was Elizabeth Avedon. Ms. Avedon is an independent curator and contributor to “L’oeil de la Photographie,” profiling notable leaders in the world of Photography. She has received awards and recognition for her photography exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book, “Avedon: Photographs 1949-1979″ for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and “Richard Avedon: In the American West” for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago, among many others; as well as curating several exhibitions at New York’s Leica Gallery. In addition, she has also worked with the Menil Collection and the Estate of Diane Arbus. Ms. Avedon wrote the introductory essay for “Vivian Maier: Self Portraits,” a PowerHouse Book. She is an instructor in both the BFA Photography and Masters in Digital Photography departments at the School of Visual Arts, New York and resides in New York City

“These final pictures, including the award winning images,” says Avedon, “sit well with me in the end. Each image has a different voice that takes me on a journey I have not been on before. They whisper and call for me to look again, and isn’t that all we ask and hope for from the medium we love, and the photographs that find us?”

The 22nd Griffin Museum Juried Exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery of the Griffin Museum July 14 through August 28, 2016. An opening reception is July 14, 7-8:30 p.m. The opening reception is free to all.

In speaking about her jurying process, Elizabeth Avedon said, “While looking for that elusive essence – what moved me visually or emotionally, what seduced me with a new point of view, striking a fresh chord – I tried to imagine how I would feel in a room with this photograph on the wall, and how I may miss it by its absence there.” Avedon also went on to say that, “Meaningful work resonates regardless of what camera you prefer, what lens you choose, what app you favor, or what paper you swoon over. “Real” photography finds its audience.”



For the third year the 22nd Juried Show is held in honor of the legacy of Peter Urban a celebrated, Boston-based photographer who passed away in 2009 after a long battle with cancer. Urban was renowned for his success in both the commercial and artistic realm. In the spirit of Peter’s success creating a career with a balance of commercial and artistic work, his family has partnered with the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston and the Griffin Museum of Photography to produce opportunities for other photographers to grow their careers.

Alongside the juried exhibition, the Arts and Business Council is again organizing a series of professional development workshops presented by a diverse range of thought leaders as a legacy to Peter Urban. These workshops will share instrumental ideas, methods and tools to help build the business and legal foundation of a thriving artistic practice.

The Peter Urban Legacy Award went to Lissa Rivera. The Arthur Griffin Legacy Award went to Jennifer McClure and the Griffin Award went to Rebecca Biddle Moseman. Honorable mentions went to Susan May Tell, Ashly Leonard Stohl and Ruben Natal-San Miquel.

The photographers are: Ben Altman, Craig Becker, Sheri Lynn Behr, Norm Borden, Chris Borrok, Joan Lobis Brown, Anja Bruehling, Lynne Buchanan, Lauren Ceike, Tom Chambers, Keith Conforti, Francis Crisafio, Frank Diaz & Deb Young, John Delaney, K.k. DePaul, Norm Diamond, Nicholas Fedak II, Selma Fernandez Richter, Bill Franson, Jennifer Georgescu, Laurent Girard, Tessa Gordon, Tamar Granovsky, Meg Griffiths, Tytia Habing, Suzy Halpin, Amanda James, Yoichi Kawamura, Asia Kepka, Jung S Kim, Karen Klinedinst, Molly Lamb, Yvette Meltzer, Ralph Mercer, Jenna Miller, Andrew Mroczek, Toni Pepe Dan, Jaime Permuth, Zoe Perry-Wood, Camilo Ramirez, John Rizzo, Michelle Rogers Pritzl, Russ Rowland, Lee Saloutos, Wendi Schneider, Raphael Shammaa, Lacey Terrell, India Treat, Dawn Watson, Aaron Wax, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Guanyu Xu and Anna Katharina Zeitler

The Griffin Museum of Photography has selected four photographers from the juried show submissions for future exhibitions in 2016. These photographers are:
Rocio De Alba, Gary Beeber, Timothy Wilson and Ellen Davidson Cantor. In addition to the 2016 exhibitions, the Griffin Museum has chosen Joyce P. Lopez and Elliot Schildkrout to be displayed with the current show in our online virtual galleries. From the selections, Ellen Slotnik will be featured as our Member in Focus for the summer of 2016.

The Abductees PHOTOGRAPHS BY CASSANDRA KLOS

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Cassandra Klos tells the story of Betty and Barney Hill, “…an interracial couple whose lives were forever altered after their controversial alien abduction in 1961. Abducted at night while driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Hills’ were ridiculed and cast out of their community when the news broke to the local media.” “Without any ‘real’ proof, the experience they endured would only live in the Hills’ minds as memories.”

Klos’ series, The Abductees, is featured in the Griffin Gallery at the Griffin Museum of Photography July 14th through August 28th, 2016. An opening reception will take place on July 14th, 2016 from 7-8:30pm. Cassandra Klos will lead a members’ talk that will be scheduled at a later date. The reception is free and open to the public.

“The project, “The Abductees,” uses archival documentation of their case and historical references from the era of which they lived to create a portal into the Hills’ version of this story,” says Klos. “The authenticity of a photograph not only creates a moment bound in truth, but demands for atonement for the hardships Betty and Barney faced during their lifetime.”

Cassandra Klos (b. 1991) is a Boston-based artist. Born and raised in New Hampshire, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her projects focus on negotiating truth from fiction as well as the psychological ties that bind memories to imagery. Her photographs have been featured in group exhibitions across the northeast region of the United States and in solo exhibitions at the Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts. She is the first prize recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, a 2015 Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Winner, and was the 2015 artist-in-residence at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah.

The Elevated Selfie: Beyond the Bathroom Mirror

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The Elevated Selfie, is a group series that celebrates the conversation around contemporary self-expression. Alongside the selfies are included narratives that express deeper meaning, a collection of key experiences that grapple with trauma or celebrate moments of joy.

The group show, juried by Photolucida’s Laura Moya and Laura Venti, The Elevated Selfie: Beyond the Bathroom Mirror, is featured in the Griffin Museum’s Atelier Gallery at the Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham, MA, July 12 through September 16, 2016. The opening reception will take place on September 13, 2016 from 6:30- 8:30 p.m.

Laura Moya and Laura Venti explain the selfie to be ubiquitous, celebrated, mocked, and curiously irresistible. “In designing this exhibition, we wanted to create a richer dialogue around this vernacular mode of self expression. The goal was to create an exhibit that would go beyond navel-gazing to get at something a little bit deeper.”

The group exhibition includes photographers: Rebecca Akporiaye, Suzanne Beaumont, Sheri Lynn Behr, Beata Bernina, Lika Brutyan, Lorenka Campos, Carol Dass, Elizabeth Bailey Dyer, Shana Einhorn, Cheryl Fallon, Jennifer Henriksen, Erika Huffman, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Kinsey Kline, Lauren Koplowitz, Patricia Lay-Dorsey, Elizabeth Clark Libert, Andrew Lucchesi, Caroline MacMoran, Kelsey Magennis, Susanne Maude, Jennifer McClure, Kathryn Mussallem, Michel O’Hara, David Pace, Catherine Panebianco, Connie Gardner Rosenthal, Barbara Ruffini, Jacinda Russell, Sunny Selby, Ilma Szekeres, Randall Tosh, David Wolf, Shelley Wood, and Birgit Zartl.

Photolucida is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon an arts organization that provides opportunities and career building programs to connect emerging and mid-career photographers. Their most important mission being to expand, inspire, educate and connect the different photography communities.

Paul Wainwright A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England

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Paul Wainwright’s photographs interprets images of landscapes and historic architecture. Colonial meetinghouses, circa 1700s, were the center of both religious and civic life. Many were built with tax money, and their simple, undecorated architecture reflected the desire of early Puritan settlers to live simple lives apart from the Church of England. Yet these were their “cathedrals,” built by hand without adornment. Only a few of them remain in a relatively unchanged state. These structures not only present a fascinating glimpse into our nation’s colonial history, but are beautiful as well.

Wainwright’s series, A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England, is featured in the Griffin Satellite Gallery at Digital Silver Imaging July 26th through September 30th, 2016. An opening reception will take place on September 14, 2016 from 6­8pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

“I approach meetinghouses in much the same way an artist who works with the human form approaches a model,” Wainwright says. “It is not important what the person’s name is. Rather, the artist sees in the model a quality that can, when properly posed and lit, yield a piece of art. These meetinghouses are my “models” for making art, and my photographs reflect my emotional response to them–my physical location when I made each photograph is not of primary importance.”

Wainwright is a fine art, large format black & white photographer who lives and works in Atkinson, New Hampshire. He specializes in traditional, wet process photography. Even though, Wainwright earned his PhD in physics from Yale University, he is now dedicated to photography full­time. Wainwright has shown his work in numerous solo and juried shows, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Panopticon Gallery in Boston. His work is in collections of private and corporate collectors including Peabody Essex Museum, Boston Public Library, and Fidelity Investments.

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