Contemporary Photographers

Eirik Johnson — Johnson's work deals with modifications to the natural environment by its inhabitants, both human and animal. His series "Animal Holes" documented the modifications animals made to their natural environment in creating their homes.




His project "Borderlands" focuses on points where the built environment has interacted with forces of nature and how these spaces defy human order at the intersection of public and private lands.





Peter Granser — This project documenting Alzheimer's patients really struck me. I feel it captures the emotions and visuals that I associate with my Alzheimer's ridden grandfather.




His work documenting Cooney Island, NY is also quite beautiful. His pairings of images only add to their visual strength.





Simon Roberts — Roberts is a Brittish photographer whose work has received much attention. "Motherland" (images below) was his first monograph and was published in 2007.





Todd Deutsch — "Chasing the Family Drift" is Deutsch's project that resulted from using his art as a way to balance and ground his life. It documents his family and he started the project just before his fist son was born in 1997.






Misty Keasler — In shooting "Love Hotel's" Keasler documented the physical spaces of themes room's in Japan that are rented by the hour for sexual encounters.

Photo Websites

Michael Shencker — documentary photography work on minorities in SE Asia. His black and white portraiture work is beautiful and provides an exotified look at "another world."

Jim Lo Scalzo — documentary photographer, photojournalist and author. He worked for US News and World Report for fifteen years on more than 60 assignments always shooting what others asked of him. Still, he writes many of his own stories and shoots without a fancy camera or flash.

Chase Jarvis — comercial and art photographer. His commercial work is bold, bright and technical, but some of his more personal seeming projects are incredibly beautiful and far more experimental.


Madi Ju — art photographer in Beijing. Her work is perhaps a bit too hip at times, but still quite beautiful. I enjoyed her narratives.
Aaron Ruell — comercial and art photographer. He has been the photographer for Citi Bank, Nissan, Quaker Oatmeal and other big commerical print campaigns, but his personal work has a very geometric, colorful and comical aesthetic that is pleasing and at times thought provoking.

Roots Run Deep

As I was looking through photo websites, I decided that before displaying the work of new photographers, I wanted to pay homage to my roots — to the photographers who mentored me and with whom I spent hours in the darkroom. Among these are my teachers (Mark Ostow and Andrew Roy), my creative companion Laura Silverman and the great work of Eugene Richards — a photographer who I have repeatedly looked back to for inspiration in composition and message.

Laura Silverman, Belmont, MA

(Unfortunately, most of her work is unavailable for public viewing. I was only able to track down some of her work with Polaroid images. It was her color medium format work that has always inspired me most.)

Andrew Roy, Cambridge, MA

Mark Ostow, Cambridge, MA




Eugene Richards, Dorchester, MA

Inspiration from the Greats

Periscope, Jasper Johns

Sunrise, Claude Monet

Breakfast in Bed, Mary Cassatt

St. Matthew, Carravaggio

Endymion (Le Sommeil d'Endymion), Girodet-Trioson