Photography Atelier is a portfolio and project building course for emerging to advanced photographers. Participants engage in supportive critical discussions of each other’s work and leave with a better understanding of the fine art industry and with an ability to edit, talk about and sequence their own work.

The Photography Atelier 31 exhibiton features the photographs by Diana Cheren Nygren, Kathleen DeCarlo-Plano, Gabriel Garay, Cynthia Johnston, Sheryl Kalis, Naohiro Maeda, William Morse, Fern Nesson, Anne Piessens, Darrell Roak, Tony Schwartz and Jeanne Widmer.

Diana Cheren Nygren
Project title: When the Trees Are Gone

“This series imagines city dwellers searching for moments of release in a world shaped by climate change, and the struggle to find a balance between an environment in crisis and manmade structures.”

Kathleen DeCarlo-Plano
Project title: Urban Awareness

“I feel passion for blending scale and geometry, while using available light, shadows, and leading lines to draw the viewer into looking at a city in a more deliberate manner.”

Gabriel Garay
Project title: Chasing Memory

“The connection that I’ve lost with the place I have spent all my life in, with all the change that has happened and is happening in Everett, MA and almost running from this place to grow as a person. I had lost a sense of the place I grew up in – so I found myself chasing what the town used to be to me.”

Cynthia Johnston
Project title: Somewhere in the Middle

“These works are a continuation of an ongoing project exploring the Midwestern geographical and political landscape.”

Sheryl Kalis
Project title: Still

“Still is a study of the unexpected moments I see when no one else is at home.”

Naohiro Maeda
Project title: Origami-Gram

“These photographs are portraits of origami as memory keepers. I bent, tore, arranged and rearranged origamis and became aware that they held the memory of my actions in their delicate physical shapes. The resulting images can appear both two- and three- dimensional, playing with the viewer’s perceptions of flatness and space in both the subject and picture plane.”

William Morse
Project title: Eruptions and Other Patterns

“A tree falls in the forest, followed by an explosion of new life in its shadow.”

Fern Nesson
Project title: All here, all now

“Here, now is all we have. We bring all of our past to the present moment and within us is all of the potential for the future.”

Anne Piessans
Project title: Meliorations

“In her mixed-media series titled Meliorations, Anne Piessens imagines ways to heal damaged landscapes.”

Darrell Roak
Project title: Noble Waterfalls

Tony Schwartz
Project title: Boston’s Chinatown

“Chinatown is the only true immigrant-derived ethnic enclave left in Boston. My interest in this community was sparked by witnessing street scenes identical to those I experienced while visiting China.”

Jeanne Widmer
Project title: An Ode to a Town Village

“This series is my attempt to capture the clash of history and cultures, the textures and mood, and the simple poetic dignity and warmth of an intimate community which can and will be lost.”

See Photography Atelier 31 portfolios. In the meantime see previous years’ Atelier students work.