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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

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk celebrating the art of photobook making. Join us from 7 to 8:30pm to hear from artists Lisa Tang Liu & J. David Tabor, James Collins, Tsai Wei Tseng, Courtney Johnson, Robert Kalman, Shari Diamond, Thomas Winter, and Sean Perry.

The Griffin Museum recognizes the importance of photobooks. Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format. We celebrate this form of artistry and want to see the photobooks

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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The Griffin Museum is thrilled to partner with renowned lens-based artist Sal Taylor Kydd for an inspiring new workshop designed for photographers who are passionate about their craft and eager to elevate their skills with expert guidance.

Over the course of six enriching weeks, you'll embark on a transformative journey to enhance your photographic storytelling abilities and develop your work within a cohesive series. This class is designed to help facilitate growth, not only as a photographic artist, but also as a visual storyteller, developing a deeper understanding of how to

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

Join us online for an artist talk with John Willis and Austin Bryant, whose works are on display as a part of the Manifest Destiny exhibition.

In his projects A View from the Rez and Mni Wiconi, John Willis showcase his long-term engagement with the land of Pine Ridge and Standing Rock by revealing how the landscape itself becomes both witness and participant in the struggles and continuities of Native life. Across both projects, Willis shows that land is not simply a place to stand but a relationship--one defined by stewardship, struggle, and the unbroken connection between people and

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online artist talk celebrating the art of handmade photobooks. Join us from 7 to 8:30pm to hear from artists Suzi Grossman, Paula McCartney, Lester Picker, Lisa McCarty, Nancy Farese, Megan Sinclair, and Laura Blacklow.

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an artist talk by Richards Family Prize winner, Izabella Demavlys.

About The Artist

Izabella Demavlys is a Swedish born photographer and artist based in New York City. She studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Parsons School of Design in New York. Initially carving her niche in fashion photography, she made a pivotal transition to portraiture and documentary work. Izabella's work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Marie Claire, The New York Times, and VICE, with exhibitions in both the U