Our next Portfolio Review features Asha Iman Veal (@asha_imean_too) Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago).

Known for her critically acclaimed exhibitions Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part and LOVE: Still Not the Lesser, Asha Iman curates powerful cross-diasporic dialogues and has brought numerous acquisitions into MoCP’s permanent collection. She also serves on panels and juries across the globe and holds a dual faculty appointment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Date: Saturday, June 14th (Online)
Time: 10 AM – 1 PM

Submit your name, email, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org for a chance to be selected for one of six 20-minute reviews!

PRC Member Opportunity!

Our next Portfolio Review features Alexa Cushing, the co-owner of Panopticon Imaging and Panopticon Gallery. She is dedicated to supporting photographers and artists through expert print production, framing, exhibition design, and curatorial projects.

April 12th, 2025 (Online)

10 AM – 1 PM

Submit your name, email, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org for a chance to be selected for one of six 20-minute reviews!

This exclusive free member benefit is your chance to discuss your work with a leading expert in the photographic arts.

PRC Member Opportunity!

Our next Portfolio Review features Douglas Breault, Director of Exhibitions at Gallery263 in Cambridge, MA.

March 30th, 2025 (Online)
10 AM – 1 PM

Submit your name, email, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org by March 17th for a chance to be selected for one of six 20-minute reviews!

This exclusive free member benefit is your chance to discuss your work with a leading expert in the photographic arts.

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Jessica Roscio. Send your name, email address, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected until 11:59pm on September 14th, 2024.

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Jessica Roscio joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and became the Director in 2020.  She has overseen all curatorial and administrative operations since the Museum became a part of Framingham State University. Prior to the Danforth, Roscio held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She writes on both historical and contemporary photography and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on innovative photographic practices in New England. She has juried numerous exhibitions across media both regionally and nationally. She is a member of the Board of the Photographic Resource Center, Boston. Roscio has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Bell Beecher Pitkin. Send your name, email address, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected until 11:59pm on August 9th, 2024.

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Bell Beecher Pitkin is a multi-media artist and curator who lives and works between Charlotte, North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts. They received their BA from Wellesley College where they studied Cinema and Media with a concentration in Photography and have completed independent training at Anderson Rach Arts Center. Within their practice, Bell works primarily with medium format photography to explore notions of the archive, family, and queer identity, often situated in the landscape and mysticism of the Southern United States. Bell currently serves as the Gallery Manager for the Leica Gallery Boston and is an incoming Board Member for Sinister Wisdom.

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Neal Rantoul. Send your name, email address, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected until November 8th at 11:59pm.

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Neal Rantoul is a career artist/teacher practicing in the field of photography. He ran the Photography Program at Northeastern University for thirty years and taught for thirteen years at Harvard University as well. With over 70 one man exhibitions Rantoul’s worked is housed in numerous permanent collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Addison Gallery in Andover, the Museum of Art of the RI School of Design, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the High Museum in Atlanta, the University Art Museum at Princeton, the Boston Athenaeum, the Center for Creative Photography
in Tucson, the Worcester Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others. Neal Rantoul’s most recent book, called “Paradise” is a look at Paradise, CA after the Camp Fire devastated the town in 2018. Coming in the fall of 2024 will be a book of his work made with the 8 x 10 camera over the years 1984-2005. Rantoul maintains an active schedule as a mentor, teacher and exhibitor, including several summers teaching at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and, in
2017, teaching in Iceland. In the fall of 2026, Rantoul will have a large one-person exhibition of his work at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA.

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Ann M. Jastrab. Send your name, email address, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected in January 2025

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA’s predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery. Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017. While being a champion of artists, she created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where multiple residents, including Meghann Riepenhoff, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Kathya Marie Landeros, Klea McKenna, and McNair Evans, all received Guggenheim Fellowships. Ann was also the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the legends photography. Ann is interested in seeing all types of photography, especially work by LGBTQ+ artists, documentary projects, alternative and historical process work, and traditional film based photography. She can offer exhibition opportunities as well as other support for artists.

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Anne Leighton Massoni. Send your name, email address, and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected until November 30, 2024

Update (11/30/2024): The lottery has reached its maximum capacity, and no additional entries can be accepted at this time. Thank you to everyone who participated!

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Anne Leighton Massoni, is the Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) in Texas. Before joining HCP, she was the Dean and Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held professor and academic administrative positions including at Cornell University in Ithaca, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Massoni graduated with an MFA in Photography from Ohio University and BAs in Photography and Anthropology from Connecticut College. She co-edited The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography in 2018. 

Lottery is Full!

PRC Members: submit your name to the lottery to be selected as one of the six members to receive a portfolio review with Cheryl Newman. Send your name and phone number to programs@prcboston.org.
Names will be collected until 11:59pm on April 27th, 2024.

The PRC Portfolio Review Series is a free benefit of PRC membership and one review is allotted to each current member once per programming year (September through August). In each portfolio review event six members will be granted reviews and will be selected via lottery.

This is an opportunity to individually discuss your work with professionals in the arts including curators, gallerists, critics, photographers, and more. Reviewers bring a wide variety of experience, aesthetic sense, focus, and expertise. To get the most benefit from your portfolio review, check the particular reviewer’s background and request to meet with those who best fit the art and objectives of your work. Each review is 20-minutes long. To make the best use of your review, select a number of images from one or two series. Think about what you want out of the session, and let the reviewer know so you can get the most value from the experience. Members are asked to arrive 5 minutes prior to the scheduled review time.

Cheryl Newman is an artist and independent curator of photography living in London. Curatorial commissions include, We Feed the World, a global photographic project documenting the lives of family and peasant farmers for exhibition and book publication. PondyPHOTO: Water, public arts festival in Pondicherry, India; 209 Women, all the female
MPs in the UK Parliament were photographed by women to celebrate 100 years of suffrage and co-curated a show of feminist photography for PHOTO WIENS, Vienna, Austria, 2022. For more than fifteen years she was the Photography Director of the award-winning Telegraph Magazine where she raised the profile of the magazine and commissioned smart,
inventive photography across all genres. She serves on international juries including as consultant and judge for The Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, Australia, 2015-2019, The Eugene Smith Grant’, jury 2019 and the UK Press Awards 2023 and she was the chair of the RPS Photography Awards 2017-2019 and is on the advisory board for the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant. Cheryl has an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at UAL, and Southbank University,
London.

In addition to her curatorial work, Newman’s art practice explores the emotional landscape of love, desire, and family history and is an exploration of the human condition described as landscapes of emotions. She was a winner of A Portrait of Britain, 2023, where her work was exhibited on screens throughout the UK with The British Journal of Photography, JCDecaux and publication with Hoxton Mini Press. Her series, SICK IN BED was included in The Eyes #13 / (After)care launched at LA Bal, Paris, during Paris Photo 2022 and Der
Greif Guest Room, 2023. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally most recently, Home,
VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, USA, 2024. Temporalities’, The Borough Road Gallery, London, 2023 and Three Dialogues, The Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2023. Cheryl has an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at UAL, and Southbank University, London.