Events

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 Sunday morning with Crista Dix, Griffin Museum's Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

© Suzanne Gainer© Lidia Russell© Cynthia W. Smith

Join us Saturday March 28th from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group. Engage

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, Griffin Museum's Executive Director to have a conversation answering your questions about your creativity, working with institutions or other issues or ideas around photography and creativity.

© Sasha Knittel© Silke HaseSean Sullivan© Bill Chapman

Join us Saturday May 23rd from 9.30am-12pm for our round table peer-run portfolio critique group

Join us for an informal walk through of the as Above so Below exhibition with artists Melinda Hurst Frye and Jessica Hays.

The Griffin @ Lafayette City Center Passageway is located at 2 Ave de Lafayette in Downtown Crossing, Boston. The passageway connects Macy's, the Lafayette Tower offices and the Hyatt Regency, Boston.

© Melinda Hurst Frye, Ghost Pipes

© Jessica Hayes

Meet on Friday March 6th at Griffin @ Lafayette at 3.30pm to meet the artists and learn more about the work on the walls in Downtown Boston.

Melinda Hurst Frye's work embodies close observation and

Join us at the Griffin Museum for an afternoon presentation with photographers Jessica Hays and Melinda Hurst Frye as they discuss their current exhibition and the ideas shaping their work.

Bringing together two distinct photographic practices, as Above so Below explores the vision and questions around land use, stewardship, and shared resources. Hayes and Frye consider how we inhabit the landscape -- how land holds memory, labor, extraction, care, and consequence. Through their individual approaches, they reflect on the ways environments are shaped by human presence and policy, and how

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome celebrated photographer Henry Horenstein for an unforgettable in-person evening of stories, images, and film.

Program Highlights:

- Artist Talk & Book Presentation -- Celebrate the launch of Miles and Miles of Texas and the 20th anniversary reprint of Honky Tonk.- Film Screening -- Enjoy Spoke, a 20-minute short capturing the spirit of the open road and the communities Henry has encountered.

Miles and Miles of Texas is a personal nod to Lone Star culture, history, landscape, and most of all, the people I met along the way--'some of the

A special program led by A Yellow Rose Project artist Edie Bresler

A Yellow Rose Project participant, Edie Bresler, invites you to join us for a two-day, in-person workshop at the Griffin Museum, where you'll step into the luminous, blue-toned world of cyanotype printing. Whether you're a photographer, printmaker, or curious creative, this hands-on experience offers a unique opportunity to explore one of photography's oldest and most enchanting alternative processes.

Traditionally a lensless technique, cyanotypes use only chemistry, sunlight, and time. You'll learn how to coat paper

The Griffin Museum is thrilled to welcome Boston-based photographer Neal Rantoul to Winchester for a special artist talk celebrating his latest book.

In this new publication, Neal Rantoul brings his luminous black-and-white photographs, created with an 8×10 view camera, to vivid new life. For more than two decades, he worked with the 8×10 format across the United States and Europe, producing a remarkable body of work distinguished by its precision, depth, and quiet intensity.

Beautifully printed and thoughtfully designed, the book features 100 photographs made from entirely new scans

20 minutes for an introduction to you and your work goes by quickly. We'd like to see you put your best foot forward. This is a weekend workshop to support your strategy for success. As part of our New England Portfolio Reviews held in the fall, we offer this weekend workshop to help ease the pressure of the reviews. Whether you are a seasoned attendee, or if this is your first review, this workshop filled with information including the value of research, conversational practice and the confidence of your preperation will help you navigate the portfolio review world.

The New England

Join us online for a weekend on connection, creativity and education September 27th / 28th, 2025 at the New England Portfolio Reviews (NEPR) for portfolio reviews with curators, gallerists, museum, book and editorial professionals in the field of photography. The Griffin Museum of Photography is bringing you two days of portfolio reviews this fall.Since 2009 NEPR has been produced by the Griffin Museum with the mission of bringing reviewers and photographers together from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one's work. NEPR serves

September 19 and 20, 2026

We're sold out! Please RSVP below to be added to the waiting list.

ABOUTNEPR

Since 2009 the Griffin Museum of Photography has created a gathering space bringing reviewers and photographers together from New England and beyond for two days of discussion, networking, and gaining fresh perspective on one's work.

NEPR serves photographers who are just embarking on their careers, and more established photographers, all hoping to reach new audiences and gain fresh perspective on their work.

The online format allows for an expansion of