Meet the Curators
With backgrounds in photography, the arts, and a wide range of creative professions, our curators play a big role in our Photorama event.
They’ll provide guidance on which images to project, and will choose winners for our contests.
So who are they? We’re glad you asked.
Paula is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography. The Griffin Museum of Photography located in Winchester outside Boston, Massachusetts, is a small nonprofit photography museum whose mission is to promote an appreciation of photographic art and a broader understanding of its visual, emotional and social impact. The museum houses 3 galleries and maintains 4 satellite gallery spaces and several virtual on-line galleries as well. Ms. Tognarelli is responsible for producing over 60 exhibitions a year at the Griffin and its surrounding satellite spaces
Jason Landry is the Owner of Panopticon Gallery in Boston, MA. Landry received an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He regularly attends portfolio review events and photography art fairs both nationally and internationally, has juried group exhibitions, and has lectured at art colleges and universities. He is a member of the Griffin Museum of Photography Board of Directors and has recently been named the Director of the MFA in Photography Program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH.
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in Art History, Olivia Parker began to make and photograph ephemeral constructions in 1973. Represented in major private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Parker’s work has been published in three monographs and in numerous magazines here and abroad. Also, she has lectured extensively and conducted many workshops. In 1996 she received a Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award. Residencies include Dartmouth College, MacDowell Colony, and The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Lou Jones' eclectic career has spanned commercial to the personal. For years he has maintained a studio in Boston & photographed for Fortune 500 corporations, international companies, NGOs & local businesses. He has completed assignments for magazines & publishers all over the world, initiated long term projects & published multiple books. Jones has served on many boards: ASMP, PRC, APA & Griffin Museum. He helped found CDIA/BU & conceived the prestigious Griffin Focus Awards. Jones has exhibited extensively locally & nationally. Other awards he has received from UN, Communication Arts magazine, Nikon "Legend Behind the Lens" & LowePro "Champion". He has recently initiated the ambitious panAFRICAproject.
Shawn G. Henry has worked as an editorial and corporate photographer for nearly 25 years. Specializing in photographing people on location, he's shot assignments for Business Week, Forbes, the National Geographic Society and Time magazines, as well as corporate clients including Bank of America, Fidelity Investments, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is the former national President of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
A specialist in the field of fine art photography, Robert Klein has more than 30 years of experience in the exhibition, purchase, sale and appraisal of collectable photographs across the history of the medium. Robert Klein served as the President of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) for seven consecutive elected terms, from 1995 until 2009, and engineered the expansion of The AIPAD Photography Show New York to the Park Avenue Armory in 2006. Robert Klein Gallery was among the first in the country to exhibit work by Irving Penn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Annie Leibovitz. In 1989, Klein was one of the original photography dealers to be welcomed to exhibit at the renowned contemporary art fair, Art Basel,Switzerland. Since then the Gallery has exhibited annually at Paris Photo, held at the Grand Palais, as well as other prestigious art fairs. As both an advisor and appraiser, Klein has earned the confidence of many museums and private collectors, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard's Fogg Museum, The Polaroid Collection, the William H.Lane Foundation and the British Museum at Yale among others. The gallery conducts business with collectors and institutions across the globe.
