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Our Mission
The Griffin Museum of Photography brings artists and community together through dynamic exhibitions, educational programs, and lectures that explore the visual, emotional, and social impact of photography. Building on the legacy of our founder, Arthur Griffin, we cultivate opportunities to engage with and better understand our diverse world through the photographic arts.
About the Museum
The Griffin Museum of Photography is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of photography. Through exhibitions, programs, and lectures featuring both established and emerging photographic artists, we encourage exploration of the craft of photography and the ideas it inspires. Through this lens, our exhibitions examine relevant themes and provoke dialogue around contemporary issues, creativity, and visual culture.
Our Commitment to our Community
Guided by our mission, the Griffin Museum is committed to embedding diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion across all aspects of our work—including our mindset, practices, outreach, programming, and exhibitions. We believe these values are essential to our effectiveness, relevance, and sustainability as a museum.
To that end, we commit to:
Ongoing self-reflection and action to address unconscious bias
Prioritizing meaningful progress over debate on definitions
Centering inclusion as fundamental to our mission and long-term success
Advancing systemic change as a necessary part of institutional growth
Fostering inclusive leadership at every level of the organization
About our founder, Arthur Griffin
Arthur Griffin was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 12, 1903. Originally trained to be an illustrator, in 1929 he picked up his first camera — a second-hand folding Brownie — and thus began a passion that would last a lifetime.
By the mid-1930’s, Arthur Griffin had become the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post — a two-page layout on New England.
Read John Updike’s essay on Arthur Griffin.
About the Museum
Founded in 1992 as a private foundation, the Griffin Museum of Photography became a nonprofit public charity in 2000. The Museum embodies the vision of its founder, Arthur Griffin, whose lifelong passion was to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a deeper understanding of its visual, emotional, and social impact. Arthur sought to share his enthusiasm for a medium that is diverse, imaginative, and informative—a vision that continues to guide the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, and support of artists, as well as the presentation of Arthur Griffin’s own work.
A longtime Winchester resident, Arthur Griffin endowed the Griffin Museum on the edge of Judkins Pond, envisioning a building that reflected his love of New England’s landscape. Today, the museum is both a cultural destination and a community gathering place. The Museum features four on-site galleries and three satellite galleries throughout the Greater Boston area, all dedicated to the exhibition of photographic art.
The Griffin Galleries
Main Gallery
The largest of the Museum’s four galleries, the Main Gallery presents rotating exhibitions by leading photographers from around the world. The Griffin is proud to exhibit distinguished bodies of work across diverse photographic genres, including photojournalism, contemporary art, historical photography, and social commentary. Past exhibitions have featured artists such as Edward Weston, Sebastião Salgado, Teenie Harris, Emmet Gowin, Jan Staller, and Peggy Sirota. The Museum also commissions and produces exhibitions developed by contemporary photographers, unified by ideas that inform and educate through the photograph.
Griffin & Atelier Galleries
These galleries are dedicated to emerging and early-career photographers. By continually reviewing new work and identifying rising voices, the Griffin provides a rare opportunity to encounter artists at pivotal moments in their careers.
Founder’s Gallery
The Founder’s Gallery
provides a space for conversations between contemporary artists and the Arthur Griffin Archive.
Illuminating the Archive
highlights these dialogues, inviting fresh perspectives on Griffin’s work and its ongoing relevance.
Satellite Galleries
The Griffin Museum extends its reach through three satellite galleries located in surrounding communities, including Lafayette City Center Passageway in Downtown Boston, Griffin @ The Jenks Center, and Griffin @ WinCAM at Winchester Community Access and Media. The Museum also produces
Optics
, a cable program on WinCAM.
In partnership with
United Photo Industries
, the Griffin Museum of Photography produces public art projects that extend photography beyond the museum walls.
Vision(ary)
is a summer outdoor exhibition in Winchester showcasing photography from around the world, using the public realm to explore how we see, interact, and grow through shared visual experience.
Please see our links for
current exhibition
details.
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Here’s how to create your Griffin Member Profile
Welcome we are excited to have you and your creativity seen by so many.
1: Log into your membership account
2: To create a profile you must be logged in and be a
supporter or above
otherwise you will not see the add a profile button.
3: You can find the Griffin Salon on the Members Drop down in our Main Navigation on the home page or by starting here –
https://griffinmuseum.org/griffin-salon/
4: A button that says
Create Your Member Profile
appears
5: If you are logged in and have already created a profile you also won’t see the add a profile button
( the button launches the form
) but you will see an edit and delete icon next to your name and only yours.
6. Fill in your Artist Statement, Bio and upload up to 10 images.
NOTE
Sharing your contact information is in your hands. You can select to make your phone and email public or keep it private.
Once you have updated your information, it sends a ping to museum staff to approve the images and text, and your page will then be listed on the public website. The museum reserves the right to refuse content that is offensive, harmful, or divisive.
Images that include graphic, explicit, or politically divisive content will not be approved.
Please ensure all submitted images and text are appropriate for a public audience.
Member Directory
Form for adding and editing members to the member directory
Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus
At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.
This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.
Artistic Purpose/Intent
Artistic Purpose/Intent
Tricia Gahagan
Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and
connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the
mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain
sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths
about the world and about one’s self.
John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;
it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship
as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can
explore the human condition.
Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as
a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established
and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative
experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan
for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the
generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the
hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing
this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something
greater to share with the world.
Fran Forman RSVP
Skip to primary navigation
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Our Mission
The Griffin Museum of Photography brings artists and community together through dynamic exhibitions, educational programs, and lectures that explore the visual, emotional, and social impact of photography. Building on the legacy of our founder, Arthur Griffin, we cultivate opportunities to engage with and better understand our diverse world through the photographic arts.
About the Museum
The Griffin Museum of Photography is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of photography. Through exhibitions, programs, and lectures featuring both established and emerging photographic artists, we encourage exploration of the craft of photography and the ideas it inspires. Through this lens, our exhibitions examine relevant themes and provoke dialogue around contemporary issues, creativity, and visual culture.
Our Commitment to our Community
Guided by our mission, the Griffin Museum is committed to embedding diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion across all aspects of our work—including our mindset, practices, outreach, programming, and exhibitions. We believe these values are essential to our effectiveness, relevance, and sustainability as a museum.
To that end, we commit to:
Ongoing self-reflection and action to address unconscious bias
Prioritizing meaningful progress over debate on definitions
Centering inclusion as fundamental to our mission and long-term success
Advancing systemic change as a necessary part of institutional growth
Fostering inclusive leadership at every level of the organization
About our founder, Arthur Griffin
Arthur Griffin was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 12, 1903. Originally trained to be an illustrator, in 1929 he picked up his first camera — a second-hand folding Brownie — and thus began a passion that would last a lifetime.
By the mid-1930’s, Arthur Griffin had become the exclusive photographer for the newly created Boston Globe Rotogravure Magazine and the New England photojournalist for Life and Time magazines. He went on to become a pioneer in the use of color film and provided the first color photographs to appear in the Saturday Evening Post — a two-page layout on New England.
Read John Updike’s essay on Arthur Griffin.
About the Museum
Founded in 1992 as a private foundation, the Griffin Museum of Photography became a nonprofit public charity in 2000. The Museum embodies the vision of its founder, Arthur Griffin, whose lifelong passion was to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a deeper understanding of its visual, emotional, and social impact. Arthur sought to share his enthusiasm for a medium that is diverse, imaginative, and informative—a vision that continues to guide the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, and support of artists, as well as the presentation of Arthur Griffin’s own work.
A longtime Winchester resident, Arthur Griffin endowed the Griffin Museum on the edge of Judkins Pond, envisioning a building that reflected his love of New England’s landscape. Today, the museum is both a cultural destination and a community gathering place. The Museum features four on-site galleries and three satellite galleries throughout the Greater Boston area, all dedicated to the exhibition of photographic art.
The Griffin Galleries
Main Gallery
The largest of the Museum’s four galleries, the Main Gallery presents rotating exhibitions by leading photographers from around the world. The Griffin is proud to exhibit distinguished bodies of work across diverse photographic genres, including photojournalism, contemporary art, historical photography, and social commentary. Past exhibitions have featured artists such as Edward Weston, Sebastião Salgado, Teenie Harris, Emmet Gowin, Jan Staller, and Peggy Sirota. The Museum also commissions and produces exhibitions developed by contemporary photographers, unified by ideas that inform and educate through the photograph.
Griffin & Atelier Galleries
These galleries are dedicated to emerging and early-career photographers. By continually reviewing new work and identifying rising voices, the Griffin provides a rare opportunity to encounter artists at pivotal moments in their careers.
Founder’s Gallery
The Founder’s Gallery
provides a space for conversations between contemporary artists and the Arthur Griffin Archive.
Illuminating the Archive
highlights these dialogues, inviting fresh perspectives on Griffin’s work and its ongoing relevance.
Satellite Galleries
The Griffin Museum extends its reach through three satellite galleries located in surrounding communities, including Lafayette City Center Passageway in Downtown Boston, Griffin @ The Jenks Center, and Griffin @ WinCAM at Winchester Community Access and Media. The Museum also produces
Optics
, a cable program on WinCAM.
In partnership with
United Photo Industries
, the Griffin Museum of Photography produces public art projects that extend photography beyond the museum walls.
Vision(ary)
is a summer outdoor exhibition in Winchester showcasing photography from around the world, using the public realm to explore how we see, interact, and grow through shared visual experience.
Please see our links for
current exhibition
details.
Primary Sidebar
About the Griffin
Footer
Griffin Museum of Photography 67 Shore Road, Winchester, Ma 01890
781-729-1158
email us
Map
Purchase Museum Admission
Hours: Tues-Sun Noon-4pm
MENU
Visit
Hours
Admission
Directions
Handicap Accessability
FAQs
Exhibitions
Exhibitions | Current, Upcoming, Past
Calls for Entry
State of Our Union 2026
Scholarships & Residencies
Richards Family Prize
John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship
Carolyn Harder Scholarship
The Cummings Foundation Artist Residency
Griffin State of Mind
Education & Events
Events
In Person
Virtual
Receptions
Photobook Focus
Focus Awards
Education
Classes
Photography Atelier
Professional Development Series
NEPR (New England Portfolio Reviews)
Education Policies
Travel
Members
Become a Member
My Account
Griffin Salon
Member Portfolio Reviews
Member’s Only Events
Log In
Give
Give Now
Griffin Futures Fund
John Chervinsky Emerging Photographer Scholarship
Leave a Legacy
About
Our Mission & Museum
Meet Our Staff
Griffin Museum Board of Directors
Arthur Griffin Photo Archive
Get in Touch
Rent the Griffin
Shop
Online Store
Admission
Membership
Here’s how to create your Griffin Member Profile
Welcome we are excited to have you and your creativity seen by so many.
1: Log into your membership account
2: To create a profile you must be logged in and be a
supporter or above
otherwise you will not see the add a profile button.
3: You can find the Griffin Salon on the Members Drop down in our Main Navigation on the home page or by starting here –
https://griffinmuseum.org/griffin-salon/
4: A button that says
Create Your Member Profile
appears
5: If you are logged in and have already created a profile you also won’t see the add a profile button
( the button launches the form
) but you will see an edit and delete icon next to your name and only yours.
6. Fill in your Artist Statement, Bio and upload up to 10 images.
NOTE
Sharing your contact information is in your hands. You can select to make your phone and email public or keep it private.
Once you have updated your information, it sends a ping to museum staff to approve the images and text, and your page will then be listed on the public website. The museum reserves the right to refuse content that is offensive, harmful, or divisive.
Images that include graphic, explicit, or politically divisive content will not be approved.
Please ensure all submitted images and text are appropriate for a public audience.
Member Directory
Form for adding and editing members to the member directory
Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus
At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.
This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.
Artistic Purpose/Intent
Artistic Purpose/Intent
Tricia Gahagan
Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and
connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the
mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain
sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths
about the world and about one’s self.
John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;
it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship
as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can
explore the human condition.
Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as
a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established
and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative
experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan
for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the
generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the
hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing
this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something
greater to share with the world.
Fran Forman RSVP