Laura Blacklow lblacklow.com

Laura Blacklow, a professional artist for over thirty years, is the author of New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-By-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques (Focal Press, revised fourth edition, 2007). She is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Works on Paper/Artists’ Books, the St. Botolph Club’s Morton Bradley Color Award, Polaroid Corporation’s Artist Support Program, a Research Grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and a Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation Fellowship. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Photographic Resource Center and was president of Artists’ Call Against US, Intervention in Central America. She is an active member of the Guatemala Solidarity Committee and has been volunteering for over two decades in Central America and Cuba.

Blacklow’s manipulated photographic prints and artists’ books have been shown internationally, and reproductions of her work have appeared most recently in Exploring Color Photography, Robert Hirsch, Elsevier Publishing, London, 2015; Photography Beyond Technique, Tom Persinger, Focal Press/Taylor & Francis Group, New York, 2014; and 500 Handmade Books: Volume 2, Julie Chen, Lark/Sterling Publishing, New York, 2013.

Blacklow has been on the faculty of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for twenty-five years, where she has taught in both the Graphic Arts & Printmaking Department and the Photography Department. Her courses have included artist’s books, oral and visual storytelling, historic photographic processes, black-and-white analog photography, color digital photography, and cameraless photography.

Jim Dow jimdowphotography.com

Jim Dow’s photographs focus on the passage of time as it is recorded in landscapes from North Dakota to Great Britain to Argentina. Using an 8 x 10 inch view camera, Dow (American, b. 1942) turns his lens to roadside signs, aging buildings, and interiors that feel locked in another era. His images honestly record the scenes before his camera, avoiding sentiments of nostalgia while paying tribute to lands marked by past and current residents. A leading American photographer, Dow pushes his viewer to reconsider familiar surroundings and discern the beauty and cultural history hidden in modern landscapes.

Dow first gained attention for his panoramic triptychs of baseball stadiums, a project that began with an image he made of Veteran’s Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, in 1980. To date, Dow has documented more than two hundred major and minor league parks in the United States and Canada. Dow is an internationally exhibited artist and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, LEF Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has been published in American Studies (2011), Marking the Land (2007), Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2006) as well as in international magazines and academic and fine art journals.

In addition to teaching at Harvard University and Tufts University, Dow has taught photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for over twenty years. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.

Jim Dow is represented by Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

Photo by Kevin Meredith

Lindsay Metivier lindsaymetivier.com

Lindsay Metivier (b.1985, Burlington, Vermont) is an artist and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is the proprietor of Aviary Gallery, an exhibition space and art book store with a digital photography lab. Additionally she teaches photography and works as a photographer on a freelance basis. Her work has been shown most recently at the Dorchester Art Project, Door 3 Gallery, Stonecrop Gallery and the Nave Gallery. Her work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation and A New Nothing.

Andrew M.K. Warren andrewmkwarren.com

Andrew M.K. Warren is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Andover, MA. and received his BFA and MFA from Tufts University/SMFA. His photographic work has been widely exhibited locally and nationally, and can be seen on his website. Some recent exhibitions include the FENCE at Photoville in Boston, SF Camerawork in San Francisco, Lincoln Arts Project in Waltham, the Griffin Museum in Winchester, and the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester. He has taught photography and video at Boston Latin School, the Photographic Resource Center, University of New Hampshire, Wellesley College, Art Institute of Boston, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, New England School of Photography and currently teaches at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA. He enjoys surfing and playing records for his cat Floyd. (Portrait by Sarah Malakoff from the Swap )

Shelley Zatsky shelleyzatsky.com

Shelley Zatsky is a photographer currently living and working outside of Boston. Shelley received a BFA in Photography from California Institute of the Arts and a MFA in Fine Art from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.  Very interested in architecture, interiors and history, these themes are a constant through her work. When not photographing interiors for designers, library objects, or teaching, Shelley can often be found collaborating with her 5-year-old son on his Lego themed photo “projects.”