Outdoor Exhibition, May 1-Oct 1, 2013
Location: Fairmont Battery Wharf, Harbor Walk
The Harbor Walk outdoor exhibition continues to be a widely popular attraction throughout the entire summer in Boston! Thanks to the extended exhibitions by enRoute Magazine and The Griffin Museum of Photography, our goal of curating and increasing the amount of artwork has doubled from year one. In total, 40 pieces of art will surround the property of Fairmont Battery Wharf and provide the perfect destination for an outdoor afternoon activity with friends and family.
Outdoor Exhibition, May 1-Sept 1, 2013
THE FENCE: A Special Boston Curated Edition
Location: Rose Kennedy Greenway
United Photo Industries, Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park & Flash Forward Festival have joined forces to curate and produce THE FENCE - the annual summer-long outdoor photo exhibition that in its first year, drew more than 1 million visitors during its 10 week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2012.
The work featured on THE FENCE in 2012 exceeded every expectation, captivating audiences of all ages, and this year THE FENCE is expanding! In addition to our 1000ft long photographic installation that will be on display in Brooklyn Bridge Park for more than 3 months, we will be partnering with Boston's Flash Forward Festival, in producing a special curated version of THE FENCE, which we intend to display along the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston - offering even more opportunities for participating photographers everywhere.
Photographers of all levels are invited to submit their best image series that capture the essence of "community" and fit into one more of the competition categories: Home, Streets, People, Creatures, Play.
May 3-20, 2013: Eleven Projects (+/-) Forty Years (+/-) A Jim Dow Retrospective
Exhibition Opening Night: May 03, 2013, 6–9 pm
Open Thurs-Sat: 12-6pm
Location: Flash Forward Festival Satellite Gallery, 401 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA
From the time I got out of school until last week I have never really deviated from the way I take pictures and that will continue until I stop. The hundreds of pictures I have made and the thousands of miles I have travelled could be said to comprise a straight line; the camera is placed in front of the subject, the light is measured and, to quote myself, "My interest in photography centers on its capacity for what appears to be exact description. I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit that still remain in the everyday landscape."
Jim Dow photographs those places where people enact their everyday rituals, often endangered regional traditions--a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop--all artifacts of what might vanish at any moment.
Aaron Siskind: A Selection
Robert Richfield: Perpetuidad
Exhibition Opening: May 3, 6-10pm
April 5–May 11th, 2013 Gallery Kayafas
450 Harrison Avenue, #37
, Boston, MA 02118
This April, Gallery Kayafas celebrates its 10th anniversary. Showing April 5 - May 11 will be the photographs of Aaron Siskind and his, student, colleague, and close friend, Robert Richfield.
The gallery will be showing a selection of early vintage work by Aaron Siskind. Included will be work from his last series, the tar pictures.
Richfield's newest series, Perpetuidad, continues his exploration of cemeteries, this time in Mexico. The monuments and memorials become active places where one celebrates life and mourns death — not separating the two but understanding they are happening simultaneously. Nothing grey, nothing quiet but a multitude of visual energy: photographs of the individual, brightly colored stucco walls, multi colored strings of lights, flowers both real and artificial, religious icons and figures, and items representing the loved one's interests, loves, passions.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/exhibitions/selection-perpetuidad
Undergraduate Photography Now
May 03 - 20, 2013
Exhibition Opening Night: May 9, 2013, 6:30–9 pm
Open Mon-Thurs: 8am-10:30pm / Friday: 8am-4pm
Location: The Boston Architectural College, Education Center Office #207, 320 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02115
We are pleased to announce the first annual Undergraduate Photography Now exhibition! This is a showcase of New England’s most talented student photographers that will be held in conjunction with all of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Festival, including 10 exhibitions, 3 outdoor installations and a fantastic line-up of professional, artistic and community programming during the festival May 16–19, 2013 in Boston at the Fairmont Battery Wharf.
This is an exhibition of the best college Juniors and Seniors enrolled in a college photography program in any of the New England States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont, during the 2012–2013 academic year. All formats and categories of photography were accepted to highlight the vast talents of these future photography professionals and artists.
The work was juried & curated by Bruce Myren and Greer Muldowney.
Flash Forward Festival is proud to sponsor, “Neal Rantoul, A Lifetime in Photography,” at
the Boston Architectural College. This lecture will be held within conjunction with our New
England wide college photography exhibition, “Undergraduate Photography Now,” and will
be an open lecture to the public about Rantoul’s artistic and professional exploits through his
impressive career in photography. The lecture will be followed by a reception for any attending guests.
May 10-19, 2013: Young New England Photographers
Curated by: Liana Mestas, Paolo Morales, Robert Gallegos
Exhibition Opening Night: May 10, 2013, 6–10 pm
Open Tues-Sat: 12-6pm
Location: Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA 02144
Young New England Photographers is a peer-oriented and juried showcase of photographic work by recent graduates from educational institutions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The purpose of YNEP is to curate and share exemplary photographic work by recent graduates to facilitate a dialogue and create a community within and outside of the demographic of the student population.
This group exhibition features artists from the Fall 2012 Call for Entries by recent graduates from educational institutions in New England. The exhibition will be accompanied by a short-run newsprint publication published by Aint-Bad Magazine, a quarterly printed publication that focuses on the work of emerging photographers. Aint-Bad supports a progressive community of artists from around the world in a printed publication and web-based forum.
May 3-20, 2013: [Photo]gogues: New England
Curated by: Paula Tognarelli and Frances Jakubek
Exhibition Opening Night: May 11, 2013, 6–8 pm
Open Wed-Sat: 12-6pm
Location: Faneuil Hall, One Faneuil Hall Square
[Photo]gogues: New England is not a definitive study of New England photography pedagogues, rather it is a sampling of faculty members from the region. Paula Tognarelli and Frances Jakubek, executive director and associate director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, invited twelve photography instructors to exhibit their personal work during the Flash Forward Photography Festival in Boston.
The twelve invited photographers are Frank Armstrong of Clark University in Worcester, MA, Edie Bresler of Simmons College in Boston, MA, Stephen DiRado of Clark University in Worcester, MA, Blake Fitch of New England School of Photography n Boston, MA, Sharon Harper of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, Julee Holcombe of the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, Stella Johnson of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Boston, MA, and Boston University in Boston, MA, Lisa Kessler of Endicott College in Beverly, MA, Rose Marasco of the University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME, Camilo Ramirez of Emerson College in Boston, MA, Mass College of Art and Design in Boston, MA and the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, MA, Kent Rogowski of Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and Lauren Shaw of Emerson College in Boston, MA.
Usually, faculty exhibitions are initiated by institutions to showcase their art instructors. As a result, artist teachers of all mediums exhibit together. The over-arching idea behind this exhibition was to assemble a sampling of New England faculty members who are linked by their pedagogy. It is with regret that we had to limit the scope of this exhibition to twelve due to time and resource constrictions. The New England area is fertile ground to a plethora of photography teaching professionals producing exciting work.
New England Portfolio Reviews Preflight: How to Prepare for Success
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
BU location TBD
$20 General Public / $15 PRC/Griffin Members
This program will directly fund the production of the New England Portfolio reviews
Panelists: Arlette Kayafas, Owner/Director, Gallery Kayafas; Neal Rantoul, educator/photographer/reviewer; Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography; Glenn Ruga, Executive Director, Photographic Resource Center
In preparation for the upcoming New England Portfolio Reviews hosted by the Griffin Museum of Photography and the PRC on June 7 and 8, 2013, we invite you to join us for a fun and informative panel discussion with four well-known names in the New England photography world.
Never presented your work at a portfolio review before? Want to learn how to make your NEPR experience, or any portfolio review experience, a huge success? This panel includes several portfolio reviewers and veterans of the field who are eager to give you some pointers.
The panel will discuss the following topics:
Also, the panel will discuss survival strategies and how to interpret a critical review while helping you define what it is that you want from a portfolio review. Come prepared with specific questions – the panelists are here to help.
More Details: http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/new-england-portfolio-reviews-preflight-how-to-prepare-for-success/
May 15 - July 9, 2013: Dress Up: A Group Exhibition featuring Atelieri O. Haapala, Keiko Hiromi, Rick Ashley and Eileen Clynes
Exhibition Opening Night: May 15, 2013, 5:30-8 pm
Location: Panopticon Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Avenue, Hotel Commonwealth
When a character turns into its second self, an alter ego is born. Panopticon Gallery announces its newest group exhibition exploring the theme 'dress up'. From males who dominate the stage at Jacques Cabaret dressed as drag performers, to another artist's fascination with religious art and iconography. It continues with the tattooed and burlesque friends of Helsinki, Finland based duo Atelieri O. Haapala that have found themselves inserted onto contemporary cabinet cards, to an artist whose nephew is photographed in staged narratives while donning his Superman costume.
May 16–19, 2013: Flash Forward 2012 Group Show / Open Daily from 12-6pm
Featuring Emerging Photographers from Canada, the UK & the USA
Exhibition Opening Night: May 16, 7–10 PM
Location: Flash Forward Festival @ Fairmont Battery Wharf, Upper Level
The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward program is an annual competition that showcases the work being created by the very best emerging photographers from Canada, the USA and the UK. Every year, judges from each of the participating countries review submitted work and identify those young people that they believe show great promise as professional fine art or documentary photographers.
The Flash Forward 2012 Group Show features a select cross-section chosen from the bodies of work featured in the competition catalogue. The photography covers all genres from documentary, photojournalism and fine art studio practices and shows how each of these young photographers are affected and influenced by their mentors, interests and choices of subject matter.
The Flash Forward 2012 Group Show pays tribute to the diversity of the annual program and its growing profile, offering evidence that the best emerging photographers are at the cutting edge of the direction that photography will take in future years.
The Magenta Foundation gratefully acknowledges the nurturing support of Flash Forward Festival Presenting Sponsor TD Bank for its ongoing commitment to Flash Forward, in all its formats, since launching in 2004.
Prominent art advocates Gus and Arlette Kayafas will present the ins and outs of building an art collection. They will outline how to store and document works of art, how to build relationships with artists, gallerists and other collectors, as well as the various approaches to building a collection. Each will also speak about their own photography related pursuits.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-1/45-years-of-collecting
May 17-19, 2013: The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
Open Daily 12-6pm
Location: Flash Forward Festival @ Fairmont Battery Wharf, Building 2, Upper Level
In spring 2011, Julien Frydman, director of Paris Photo, and I, both of us in new jobs, compared notes regarding our aspirations for the future of Paris Photo and Aperture, respectively. We both wanted our organizations to play new roles in supporting the dynamic culture and evolving story of photobook-making, and we both wanted to start a new photobook award. We decided to do it together.
We celebrated fifteen years of Paris Photo with a one-off award drawn from nominations by four prominent bookophiles, as well as the publication of the first issue of The PhotoBook Review. Paul Graham’s outstanding A Shimmer of Possibility (SteidlMACK, 2007) was judged the winner. One year later we introduce, here, the shortlist for our first annual open-submission photobook awards. Our goal is to identify, honor, and promote the best photobook of the year and the best first photobook by a newcomer to the field.
An award for the best photobook of the year is not a new idea. There are others. We do have the advantage of timing, in that our entry date, in early September, allows publishers to submit advance copies of their fall releases. And where better to launch a new global award than amid the buzz of Paris Photo, the leading international gathering of everyone with a passion for photography? We want to do our part in acknowledging the role and contribution of the photographic artists, publishers, and their creative partners who achieve the highest standards of excellence.
But this award program is every bit as much about the potential of the photobook, and hence the First PhotoBook award is just as—and perhaps more—important to us. The First category is open to all new bookmakers, however modest their means, however small their editions. By offering a $10,000 check, our hope is that this prize and the associated recognition will change the life of the photographer who wins it. Because it is the independent photobook makers—the artists fresh out of college, the determined photographers who can’t get or haven’t waited for a publishing deal, the photographers who have an idea and the do-it-yourself drive to get on with it themselves, the publishers who take a risk with a previously unpublished photographer—whose work now drives the evolving language of photobooks.
Ten years ago, a handful of publishers around the world, producing maybe four hundred photobooks a year between us, acted as guardians of the form. We continue to play a key role. But what’s so exciting about this moment is that now anybody can make, promote, and distribute a book and find an audience. Tens of thousands of people with something to say with pictures are doing just that. This changes everything. The field is wide open; we are all publishers now. This is just starting to get really interesting.
Aperture Foundation and Paris Photo are proud to present the thirty nominees of the inaugural edition of this new and unique photobook prize.
Photography Consultant Marc Prüst offers his personal view and interpretation of the changes that the photographic market has gone through over the past 15 years.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-1/why-the-phone-doesnt-ring-anymore
Smartphones, apps and streaming data have changed our relationship with imagery. Photographs aren’t what they used to be and the panel will discuss what this means for our understanding of the world.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-1/operator-get-me-instagram
Caleb Charland / Backscatter
Exhibition Opening Night: May 17, 5:30-8:30pm
Exhibition Open: Tues - Sat, 12-6pm
Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Avenue, #37
"By exploring the world at hand, from the basement to the backyard, I have found a resonance in things. An energy vibrates in that space between our perceptions of the world and the potential the mind senses for our interventions within the world. This energy is the source of all true art and science, it breeds those beloved "Ah Ha!" moments and it allows us to sense the extraordinary in the common. The fact that I can make dots on my hands then simply invert the colors to create a night sky affirms that even within the well tested laws of science there are, and must always be, pathways to reinterpretation and discovery."
— CC, 2013
May 16-19, 2013: Cultivated: New Photography from New England / Open Daily 12-6pm
Curated by: Leslie K Brown and Michelle Lamunière
Exhibition Opening Night: May 17, 2013, 7–10 pm
Location: Flash Forward Festival @ Fairmont Battery Wharf, Building 2, Lower Level
Cultivated: New Photography from New England is a group exhibition of ten photographers whose artistic practice is grounded in the northeast. Cultivated includes artists selected by Leslie K. Brown, independent curator and educator, and Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. The photographers include Scott Alario, Cole Caswell, Nelson Chan, Christine Collins, Victoria Crayhon, Andrew Fillmore, Alexander Harding, Tony Luong, S. Billie Mandle, and Amy Montali.
The New England region is an especially fertile environment for photographic education and the artists in the exhibition all have connections to this area’s varied institutions, either as students or instructors, and often both. The geographical connections span the northeast, encompassing Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Equally diverse, the featured artists include individuals just beginning their careers as well as those poised to break through to the next level.
In developing this project, we were inspired by metaphors of growth and rootedness as well as locality and community. We believe that these photographers merit attention within and beyond New England, and this exhibition sheds light on their locally-cultivated efforts.
May 16-19, 2013: Relics by Robert Moran
Exhibition Opening Night: May 17, 2013, 7–10 pm
Location: Flash Forward Festival @ Fairmont Battery Wharf, Building 2, Lower Level
RELICS is a series of portraits of common objects that are past their prime. Once relied upon, they have been forgotten or discarded. I photographed each item singly in order to reveal its individual essence. Cracks and scuff of hard use. Mended hinges. Patches worn smooth by frequent polishing. Looking at each piece through my camera lens, I am reminded how often function dictates form, and how frequently the form is right. The objects in these photographs may have been used for years by one person, while others passed through many hands. They've been used in homes, offices, a school gym, and taken on house calls by a country doctor. All of them have stories. Selecting and photographing them, I began to think about the events in my life to which objects have borne witness. In a sense they are our partners in life. Over the years I have taken pictures of neighbors, classic cars, icebergs, and now, ... a table fan. Each time, I strive to capture something of my subject's essential spirit. In this project I've tried to achieve that by selecting items that display a unique aura, and in many cases, reveal wear and tear obtained from many years of use.
— Robert Moran
Quote from my show catalog at the Griffin Museum of Photography at Digital Silver Imaging:
"... In his exhibition called Relics, Robert Moran photographs cultural artifacts. The Lava Lamp, the pink Westinghouse radio, the birdcage and a travel-worn valise become works of art that are no longer savored for their function. They have outlived their use but remain behind as evidence of our human trajectory. Moran, as archeologist, etches these remnants of a bygone day into our social memory so they cannot be forgotten."
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PAULA TOGNARELLI
Executive Director and Curator
Griffin Museum of Photography
Doug Menuez gained exclusive access to the leading innovators of Silicon Valley during the Digital Revolution (1985 and 2000), capturing a hidden tribe developing new technology in their R&D labs, boardrooms, homes and private jets.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-2/fearless-genius
In a fast shifting digital world it is sometimes difficult to divine where we stand as photographers, and where we are heading. James Estrin will explore the forces that are rapidly changing photography.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-2/searching-for-the-future-of-photography
This panel will discuss the most important portfolio reviews around the world, giving you insight into how to know if you’re ready to attend, what you should know before you go, and how to prepare and choose the right review for your work.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-2/portfolio-reviews
In 2011, Theron Humphrey hit the road to cross America to celebrate life. He photographed one person a day, every day, for an entire year. The project was recently named National Geographic’s Travel Project of the Year.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-3/this-wild-idea
This talk chronicles Horenstein's 40 years of documenting country musicians in Nashville, family and friends in Massachusetts, horse racing at Saratoga, nightlife in Buenos Aires, South American baseball, camel breeding in Dubai and much, much more.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-3/henry-horenstein
When photographer Andrew Rowat went to China to shoot a golf story for Air Canada’s enRoute magazine, he had to orchestrate over a hundred caddies and their golf carts to portray the growing popularity of golf in that country. Travel photography might sound like a dream job (and it is), but the complexities and challenges (hello hurricanes!) are far greater than in your average studio shoot. From insights of life on the road to what photo editors are looking for, we’ll share the ins and outs of commissioning, producing and editing photography for a travel magazine.
Full Details: http://www.flashforwardfestival.com/education/day-3/panel-discussion
