The Photography Atelier 23 will present an exhibit of student and faculty artwork from March 10th to April 3rd, 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 of Photography, 67 Shore Road, Winchester, Massachusetts 01890. On Thursday, March 10th, the public is invited to attend the artists’ reception from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Work by Atelier 23 members includes:
Andy Schirmer: Vanishing Points, explores how the evolution of pattern recognition in humans has produced both survival skills and aesthetics;
Amy Rindskopf: Dreamed Botany, unexpected views from the greenhouse;
Claudia Gustafson: Indelible Memories, is about the internal landscapes of the human experience. The themes for this series come from the artist’s time growing up in Lima, Peru;
Darrell Roak: Solitude, features very simple subjects, including abandoned structures and landscapes;
Dawn Colsia: Celebration of Trees, includes a Kauri tree from a New Zealand rainforest and a Dawn Redwood from the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts;
Donna Tramontozzi: Optical Shards, reflections worth a second look;
Jessica Wolfe: Flora, a series of macro photos that provide a surprising glimpse into exotic flowers and everyday beauty;
Judith Panagotopulos: Aging, represents things that with age have lost their utility but have gained beauty in the processes of aging;
Jurgen Kedesdy: Crossing The Merrimack, is a project documenting each of the 45 bridges that cross the Merrimack River in New Hampshire and Massachusetts;
Kathleen Herr-Zaya: Urban Reflections;
Mary Buonanno: Ripened Beauty, images that explore the affect that aging has on organic matter and how the aging process reveals a different type of beauty;
Randi Freundlich: Children of the World/Boston, portraits (and stories) of children from immigrant families living in Boston;
Rick Branscomb: Boston at Night, concentrates on dark, atmospheric views of Boston.
Ruth Nelson: In Your Face -The Mannequins Look Back, shows the mannequins as active participants, looking at the camera as though they were human, with consciousness and attitude, meeting the world in their individual ways;
Silke Hase: Ocean’s Edge, a project that reflects the artist’s love of water and photography, using the historic wet plate collodion process.
Stephanie Smith: Once Upon a Time, a collaboration between the artist and her 15-year-old daughter, exploring fantasy and reality;
Stephen Shapiro: The Interesting Life of Bubbles, a study of bubbles in motion;
Sally Chapman: Yards of Faith, a project that studies the public proclamations of faith in the artist’s neighborhood; and
Trelawney Goodell: REFLECTIONS: A Moment in Time, shows images reflected on the surface of a building tell us about the surrounding environment, the lighting at that moment, and the surface on which the image is reflected.

Instructor Meg Birnbaum will be available to discuss the Photography Atelier at the reception on March 10th with anyone interested in joining the class.