We are thrilled to start of 2022 with the New England Portfolio Reviews in March of 2022!

Since 2009 The New England Portfolio Reviews (NEPR) have been co-produced by the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA and the Photographic Resource Center (PRC), Cambridge, Massachusetts with the mission of bringing reviewers and photographers from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one’s work. This NEPR is an online event to be held on March 11-13, 2022 with a keynote lecture by Meghann Riepenhoff – March 11th at 7pm.

NEPR serves photographers who are just embarking on their careers and more established photographers hoping to reach new audiences. The online format allows for an expansion of participants in volume and in location including reviewers such gallerists, book publishers, museum professionals, critics, educators and advisors from all over the world who provide guidance and potential opportunities to grow artist practices.

Of the 90+ participating photographers, ten are emerging photographers that will receive full scholarships. We believe that providing professional opportunities to emerging photographers is key to keeping the industry strong and active.

Here is a list of current reviewers – more are being added, and all are subject to change.

Camilo Alvarez, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Ernsto Bazan, Bazan Photos Publishing, Vera Cruz, Mexico
Emily Belz, Photographer and Educator
Makeda Best, Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums
Nancy Burns, Stoddard Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Worcester, MA
David Carol & Ashly Stohl, Peanut Press, LA & NY
Alyssa Coppelman, Photo Editor & Consultant, Austin, TX
Carrie Cushman, Edith Dale Monson Director/Curator of the Joseloff and Silpe Galleries, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Karen Davis, Gallerist, Davis Orton Gallery
David DeMelim, Managing Director, RI Center for Photographic Arts
Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books, Baltimore, MD
Michael Foley, Foley Gallery, New York
Donna Garcia, Executive Director, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta Georgia
Bill Gaskins, Director of Photography + Media & Society MFA, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director, Center for Fine Art photography Fort Collins, CO
Lonnie Graham, Executive Director, PhotoAlliance, San Francisco
Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Karen Harvey, Shutterhub, London, UK
Tailyr Irvine, Indigenous Photograph, Documentary Photographer
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Frances Jakubek, Director of Exhibitions, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY
Caleb Cain Marcus, Roving Exhibitions Editor, Damiani Publishing, NY, NY
Melanie McWhorter, Independent Photography Consultant
Bree Lamb, Fraction Magazine, Albuquerque, NM
Arlette Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Anne Kelly, Photo-Eye, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kirchoff, Analog Forever Magazine, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Kopeikin, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kirsten Rian, Independent Curator, Oregon
J. Sybylla Smith, Independent Consultant, Boston MA
Aline Smithson, Founder, Lenscratch, Los Angeles, CA
Susan Spiritus, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Irvine, CA
Elin Spring, What Will You Remember, Boston, MA
Dana Stirling & Yoav Friedlander, Float Magazine
Mary Virginia Swanson, Educator, Author and Entrepreneur in the field of photography, and a respected advisor to artists and arts organizations.
Lauren Szumita, Independent Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Barbara Tannenbaum, Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography, Cleveland Art Museum
Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Joanne Junga Yang, Artistic Director, Korea International Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea

Reviewer biographies and areas of interest will be online soon.

The cost of 4 portfolio reviews is $200. The event is SOLD OUT, and we are accepting waiting list registration. Registration is now open for the waiting list only. The possibility for additional reviews is available on a day to day basis during the reviews. All attendees will be alerted to those openings.

We will provide an artist index for download of all of the participants of the portfolio review that we will make available to participating artists, our reviewers and the public. The Artist Index for 2020 is available online.

Schedule:

Friday, March 11, 2022:
7:00 – 8:00 pm – Keynote Lecture with Meghann Riepenhoff

Saturday, March 12, 2022: NEPR Reviews
9:00 am – Noon
Noon – 3 pm
3 pm – 6 pm

Sunday, March 13, 2022: NEPR Reviews
9:00 am – Noon
Noon – 3 pm
3 pm – 6 pm

We would like to thank Joni & Mark Lohr and Larry Smukler for their sponsorship of our Scholarship Award Participants.

This year’s review is generously sponsored by Stanhope Framers and Digital Silver Imaging (DSI)

Once a month we bring together four photographers to talk about their work, and inspire us all creatively. Called the Photo Chat Chat, our next installment happens June 11th. Here is our line up. It promises to be a great conversation.

Canadian Rockies, No. 6 © Sean Du

Sean Du is a landscape photographer whose work aims to reconnect us with nature. His on-going project “Above the Treeline” records, by way of hiking and climbing, the normally unseen views of North America’s mountain wildernesses. Since earning his BFA in photography from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, his work had been exhibited in institutes such as the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California, Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado, and Photographic Center Northwest, in Seattle, Washington. He currently lives in Pasadena, California.

Gregory Jundanian is an emerging artist focused on portraiture with a concentration on communities. His current project, In Their Footsteps, is about his connection to Armenia, and the connection between Armenia and Armenian break-away republic of Artsakh. Other ongoing projects include a series of work on male identity focusing on local area barbershops, and different landscape projects that keep him busy until he can photograph people once again. In
the meantime he is finally fully utilizing his Netflix account.

Jundanian was a 2017 Critical Mass Top 200 finalist with Spoken Word, his work on the poetry slam community in Boston. He also had a solo show with that work at the South Boston Public Library, and has shown both nationally and internationally in group shows. He recently completed his post-bac degree at MassArt, and will be entering an MFA program at the University of Hartford this summer.

Eric T. Kunsman (b. 1975) was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. While in high school, he was heavily influenced by the death of the steel industry and its place in American history. The exposure to the work of Walker Evans during this time hooked Eric onto photography.

Eric holds his MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and holds an MS in Electronic Publishing/Graphic Arts Media, BS in Biomedical Photography, BFA in Fine Art photography all from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Currently, he is a photographer and book artist based out of Rochester, New York. Eric works at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as a Lecturer for the Visual Communications Studies Department at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and is an adjunct professor for the School of Photographic Arts & Sciences. He has owned Booksmart Studio since 2005, which is a fine art digital printing studio, specializing in numerous techniques and services for photographers and book artists on a collaborative basis.

Minny Lee is a lens- based artist who is currently focusing on making artist’s books. Her work contemplates the concepts around time and space and the coexistence of duality. Lee was born and raised in South Korea and obtained an MA in Art History from City College of New York and an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard. Lee was awarded a fellowship from the Reflexions Masterclass in Europe and participated in an artist-in-residence program at Halsnøy Kloster (Norway) and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at the Center for Fine Art Photography, Camera Club of New York, Datz Museum of Art (S. Korea), Espacio el Dorado (Colombia), Les Rencontres d’Arles (France), Lishui Photo Festival (China) among other venues. Lee’s artist’s books are in the collection of the International Center of Photography Library, New York Public Library, Special Collections at the University of Arizona, Special Collections at Stanford University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Amon Carter Museum Library, and many other private collections. Lee was based in the greater New York area for more than twenty years and recently relocated to Honolulu, Hawaii.

For more information about the photo chat contact us. If you wish to be a presenter at a future event email us. The chat is free for everyone. Reservations required and can be made on our website.

New England Portfolio Review | March 11 – 13, 2022

June Photo Chat Chat | featuring Sean Du, Greg Jundanian, Eric Kunsman & Minny Lee

artist conversations

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