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This critique-based workshop is for photographers who already develop black-and-white film and have access to a working darkroom. The class focuses on how exposure, development, and metering decisions affect the quality and flexibility of black-and-white negatives, and how those choices shape the final print. We will also focus on how to advance the students' print making skills.

Using student work as the primary teaching tool, the course combines group critique with targeted technical discussion. While some concepts draw from principles associated with the Zone System, this is not a Zone

The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to have photographer and printmaker Vaune Trachtman for an in-person artist talk and book signing. Join us on Saturday, May 2, at 2 pm in our Main Gallery to learn about Trachtman's recently released photo book, NOW IS ALWAYS, published by Tusen Takk Press. Signed copies will be available for purchase.

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About NOW IS ALWAYS

My parents died when I was young -- my father when I was

The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online conversation with artist, photographer, researcher, and former environmental lawyer Virginia McGee Richards, joined by James Estrin, staff photographer and writer at The New York Times, to discuss Richards' recently published book The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway.

The Inner Passage will be published by MIT Press in April 2026. The work uncovers a little-known chapter of American history: a 300-mile network of colonial-era canals carved by enslaved people along the Atlantic coast from

Why write about your photography? Aren't your pictures supposed to say it all? Ideally, but written cues can offer viewers helpful entry points into your work. If you exhibit your work, preparing artist statements, project statements and biographies are necessities. If you are applying for an artist residency, a grant, or a call for entry, writing eloquently will illuminate the intention and process that sparked your imagery. The bottom line is, effective communication elevates your work.

In our first session of the course, we explain best practices for starting and maintaining successful