Events

The Griffin is pleased to have Jason Gardner online in the Griffin Zoom Room for a conversation about his series and newly published photobook - We the Spirits.

We the Spirits (GOST Books, UK, 2024), is selected from Jason's vast archive showing the ritual and festival of traditional Carnival for over 15 years, throughout 15 countries.Seeking out villages where festivals were at their most folkloric or least visited by outsiders, Jason collaborated with ethnographers and local experts to engage with each festival. Collectively, his images dispel stereotypes of Carnival and

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome creative artist Jill Enfield's Glasshouse of New Americans to our grounds this summer. We are also pleased to present a special online conversation with the artist.

Join us online on September 5th at 6:30 PM for this engaging presentation.

Titled The New Americans, this physical display explores heritage, genealogy, and homeland. Jill's personal connection to immigration, her paternal relatives fleeing Frankfurt, Germany, in 1939, inspired a project honoring immigrants' integral role in society and acknowledging the challenges they

Join us for a morning event of conversation and critique. We are excited to provide our members an opportunity to network and get critical feedback about a body of work either in process or complete. Spend your Saturday morning with Crista Dix, Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

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Join us Sunday July 13th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage with 8 other Griffin members to network

We are pleased to host the talented lens based artist and bookmaker Laila Nahar online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday September 9th at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific for a conversation about creativity and book making. Nahar's stunning hand crafted books are in the collection of the Griffin Museum library. She will discuss her path as a photographer, and as a bookmaker and how her background shaped her artistic journey. Nahar will talk about her book-making process featuring a selection of books.

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A Yellow Rose Project founders and participants invite you to join us for a one-day, in-person workshop at the Griffin Museum, where you will harness light and material to create unique photographic prints using the lumen print technique and the 19th Amendment as inspiration for subject matter.

Two weeks prior to the workshop participants will receive an invitation email with warm up writing prompts as well as directives to thoughtfully gather personal objects to make one of a kind prints.

On the day, you will be given a short lecture on A Yellow Rose Project and we will talk about

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to have Boston based photographer Lou Jones in Winchester to talk about his expansive opus on the African continent, the PanAFRICAProject.

Man sitting at a restaurant in Katutura, NamibiaHerero tribe woman sitting in the shade in Epukiro, NamibiaWorkers with a truck carrying Okoume plywoodLiving room of small family home within Kibera slum. Kibera, KenyaNewspapers running through a printing press at The Namibian in Windhoek, NamibiaFemale factory worker cutting steel wire in Matsapha, Eswatini/SwazilandWomen hand weaving a rug. Piggs Peak, Eswatini

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In partnership with Leica Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to present a lecture series featuring the artists of Vision(ary): Raising Our Voices, our annual public summer exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Krist.Join photographer Louie Palu, on September 16 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at LEICA Gallery.This event is free an open to the public.

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Join us on the following dates through the months of August and September for insightful conversations with the participating artists:

Aug 25, 2026Terry BarczakAug 26, 2026Ashima YadavaSep 1, 2026Kiliii

The Griffin Museum of Photography is proud to present a lecture series featuring the artists of Vision(ary): Raising Our Voices, our annual public summer exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Krist.Join photographer Louie Palu, on September 16 from 7:30 to 8:00 PM at LEICA Gallery.

Leica Gallery

Join us on the following dates through the months of August and September for insightful conversations with the participating artists:

Aug 25, 2026Terry BarczakAug 26, 2026Ashima YadavaSep 1, 2026Kiliii YuyanSep 3, 2026Daniella ZalcmanSep 8, 2026Lola Flash

September 15Lindsay MorrisSep 24

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This evening is all about you, our members, whose passion and support make everything we do possible. Our Members Mingle is about connecting with fellow photography enthusiasts, sharing your inspiration, and participating in the vibrant energy that makes the Griffin Museum such a special place. And what better way to celebrate you than being with other members and seeing the work of our Manifest Destiny exhibition! This is an opportunity for all of our featured artists to have a moment to take in the exhibition and meet each other.

Eat, drink and be merry! Get ready for an evening of