Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening reception of PHOTO/FACULTY 2026 last Friday! The exhibition is on view through June 14.
A special thank you to Alexa Cushing and Connor Noll of Panopticon Imaging (@panopticonimaging ) for generously sponsoring this exhibition.
Photos by @seansullivanphoto
🎉 Join us tonight from 6-8pm for the opening reception of PHOTO/FACULTY 2026. Now in its second year, the exhibition brings together 54 artists from 27 institutions across five New England states, featuring photography faculty as artists, with work that reflects a wide range of approaches and deep engagement with the medium.
The PHOTO/FACULTY 2026 exhibition is fully sponsored by @panopticonimaging , whose generous support has made the exhibition and its related programming possible.
📷 PHOTO/FACULTY 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, 6-8 PM
Now in its second year, PHOTO/FACULTY brings together 52 artists from 26 institutions across five New England states. This exhibition highlights photography faculty as active artists, whose work spans documentary, conceptual, and experimental practices.
These educators are shaping the future of photography through both their teaching and their creative work. PHOTO/FACULTY recognizes their impact on the field today.
Join us for the opening and experience the range of contemporary photography happening across New England!
Check out the exhibition on our website to see the full list of artists and their corresponding institutions. Link in bio.
This exhibition is fully sponsored by @panopticonimaging
Image Credit: Matthew Monteith (@monteith.matthew ) of Massachusetts College of Art and Design @massart_photography
What does it look like to work as a business owner, curator, director, or freelancer while also being an artist?
How do you balance creative work with making a living?
Join us for Career Pathways in Photography: Panel & Networking Night at the PRC—an evening conversations with artists and professionals working across the field, followed by open networking in the gallery.
This panel features a dynamic group of guests:
✨ Alexa Cushing – Artist and Co-owner of Panopticon Imaging & Gallery, working closely with artists through printing, framing, and exhibition-making
✨ Yorgos Efthymiadis – Artist and curator, 2025 Foster Prize winner (ICA/Boston) and Warhol Foundation grant recipient, founder of The Curated Fridge
✨ Faith Ninivaggi – Emmy Award–winning photojournalist and educator with decades of experience in the field
✨ Sophie Park – Freelance photojournalist contributing to major publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post. Co-founder of Green Street Photo
✨ Moderated by Catherine LeComte Lecce – Executive Director of the PRC, 2025 Creative Entrepreneurship Fellow and 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals recipient
Held in tandem with the PRC Student Show 2026 and sponsored by Stanhope Framers (@stanhopeframers )
🎟 Free (registration required)
Link in bio.
@alexacushing@panopticonimaging@panopticongallery@yorgosphoto@thecuratedfridge@catherinelecomtelecce@faithninivaggi@sophieupark@greenstreet_photo
Running our routine focus calibration on our Flextight X5 Scanner today! This is the scanner that we use for our high resolution scans of 110, APS, 35mm, 120 (including panoramic), and 4x5 film.
The Hasselblad Flextight X5 is an exceptional scanner that is capable of producing an image file up to 8000ppi/16bit color. While there are other scanners that output a higher resolution, the Flextight produces both sharper images as well as a higher range of density. It achieves this by operating similar to a drum scanner, the negative is curved in a radius and guided by a sensor, this tightens the material and allows the material to be scanned perfectly flat. The Flextight’s CCD faces downwards, this means that when making scans there is no glass between the lens and the negative, which increases sharpness.
Sample image from a medium format negative shot by Connor (of Alexa)
The Photographic Resource Center is excited to announce the return of PHOTO/FACULTY for 2026! This non-juried exhibition is open to all faculty currently teaching photography at higher education institutions in New England. PHOTO/FACULTY recognizes the vital role educators play in shaping the next generation of photographers while continuing to sustain and evolve their own creative practices.
*Submit early: entries are accepted until all spots are filled or by April 19, 2026 at 11:59 PM—whichever comes first!
The PHOTO/FACULTY 2026 exhibition is fully sponsored by Panopticon Imaging (@panopticonimaging ). All participating artists are eligible to receive a 20% discount on services!
More info at the link in our bio.
Honored to help bring this piece to life with printing and framing for @vanessaleroyphoto ’s work in Reciprocal Ecology, curated by @cassandraklos_ .
See it in person tonight 5–8pm at @showup.inc
We recently produced a set of silver gelatin darkroom prints for @bostonathenaeum by transforming digital files into negatives using our LVT (Light Valve Technology) machine. This process uses light to expose the image onto black and white film, which can then be printed traditionally in the darkroom, creating a true silver negative and darkroom print. This is considered the sharpest way to make a print from a digital file!
Even more special: the photographs are by @constantine.manos , who was one of the very first artists to use this same LVT machine at Panopticon years ago.
Analog innovation, decades later, still making prints the old-fashioned way!
Due to today’s travel ban, Panopticon Imaging will be closed to help keep everyone safe.
We’re still working from home and available over email, so feel free to reach out with questions, orders, or ideas. Being stuck inside on a snow day is the perfect excuse to finally get your project started!
Storm Storm Winter Photo Contest:
Headed out (safely!) or shooting from your window? Post your best storm photo, tag @panopticonimaging , and we’ll pick a winner to receive a free 11×14 print of any image of their choice.
We’ll be back tomorrow, ready to process all those snowstorm negatives!
Stay safe, stay warm, and we’ll see you soon ❄️📸
Honored to have printed and framed work by @angelarowlings for Boston In Focus, an exhibition at Artists For Humanity (@artists.for.humanity ), running 2/11-4/12 with an artist talk and opening reception this Weds Feb 11th.
Angela has been documenting Villa Victoria and Festival Betances since the late 90s, following generations of families in Boston’s South End as they celebrate, protect, and pass down Puerto Rican culture amid a rapidly changing cityscape.
These prints were made on Baryta Photographique paper and framed in royal blue frames as a nod to the Puerto Rican flag.
We first connected with @ausbry during First Look 2025 at Panopticon Gallery, and have been so pleased to continue working with him for his exhibition Where They Still Remain, currently on view at @griffinmuseum
We partnered with Austin from the very beginning: reviewing test prints, dialing in materials, and then printing and framing his images for the exhibition. We had a great time at the opening reception for this project, part of The Griffin’s Manifest Destiny exhibition.
Don’t miss his online artist talk Feb 26th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
