Bridge Gallery

RECKONINGS Reportage from Rwanda and Spain For the past 6 years we've been honored to serve on the jury for the prestigious ZEKE Award for documentary photography, sponsored by the Social Documentary Network.This is an annual juried award with entries coming from all over the world, and a jury comprised of photo editors representing many of the industry's top publications, agencies and organizations. This year we're equally honored to show the work of the two winners at BRIDGE. On one wall are D

In association with The Photographer's Gallery in London, we're excited to bring the Finnish master photographer to BRIDGE Gallery. For decades Pentti has gravitated toward cold and remote places where he has captured extraordinary moments in time with his trademark design, wit and masterful printing techniques. This show collects the best of the best in one place and is a remarkable chance to see the scope of his skill in an intimate gallery setting. VIEW PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI

The continent of Africa is undergoing massive changes that are often not noticed or reported in the West. Long-time Boston photographer Lou Jones is out to blow up misconceptions of the continent, and has made numerous trips to Africa to document its changing face. His Pan Africa Project is an ongoing obsession, and this is a unique opportunity to get a glimpse of this remarkable work in progress. VIEW SHOW

Photographs by Lou Jones Lou Jones has had a long and distinguished career in which he has shot hundreds of assignments throughout the world for corporate and editorial clients. High on his own list of adventures are the 13 Olympics he's covered in that time. This show will feature highlights from both summer and winter Olympics and is timed to coincide with the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. VIEW FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER

This show pairs the remarkable Siberian photographs of Arbugaeva’s "Tiksi" with Grigalashvili’s "The Final Days of Georgian Nomads." Both of these women are award winning, rising international stars and this is the first time that they've been shown together in the same gallery. See contact page for dates and hours. VIEW TIKSI VIEW LAST DAYS OF GEORGIAN NOMADS

Mark Ostow’s Political Portraits With the election fast approaching, what better way to gear up for it than by showing Mark Ostow's idiosyncratic portraits of politicians and political players. On and off the trail, they're an intimate, fly-on-the wall take on the exhilarating and grueling world of those who choose to run... VIEW MARK OSTOW'S  "SEE HOW THEY RUN"

No longer just a way to get from point A to point B, today’s bridges are transforming the physical and cultural landscape. Engineering and materials advances have fostered an explosion in innovative designs, often making the bridges themselves the destination. For three years, Greig Cranna has been traveling the world amassing a collection of some of the most extraordinary. VIEW SHOW

40 years ago, Greig Cranna quit his full time job and began a career as a freelance photographer.  Those 40 years have yielded countless extraordinary moments.  This show features one from each year. VIEW SHOW

Photographs by Mark Ostow For the past 180 days, Mark Ostow has obsessively roamed New England searching for moments that go beyond simple pandemic documentation. This show is a remarkable collection of people seeking and enjoying moments of normalcy in very difficult times, and a testament to the singlemindedness that has had Mark out every day since this unprecedented event began. Until we can safely and confidently open our doors, we will continue to use the windows for our shows. There are

The Trout Flies of V.S. Hidy Photographs by Lance Hidy Using the technology of focus stacking, renowned graphic designer Lance Hidy has transformed the tiny trout flies tied by his father, master tier V.S. Hidy, into prints of extraordinary detail and beauty. After shooting between 80 and 150 images with micro shifts in focus, a computer program combines the images, weeds out the blurry pieces and yields images that never could have been achieved with traditional macro lenses. The result is a pr

Cuba has been a magnet for photographers for decades, but all too often they focus on Havana and the beguiling vintage American cars lovingly kept running since the onset of the embargo. Sharum, on the other hand, has spent 4 years in the remote, rarely visited, countryside documenting the lives of the Campesinos, the peasant farmers who are the lifeblood of the Cuban agricultural system. His ability to connect with his subjects without inserting himself into the story is evident in all of his p

Photographs by Greig Cranna For over forty years Greig Cranna has shot hundreds of commercial assignments all over the world. For the past twenty, much of that travel has been for seed companies and big growers throughout the United States. The time spent in the fields has given him a deep appreciation for the people and the land that enable us to eat the way we do. We too often take our food for granted, and these photographs will give you a window into the agricultural world that brings fresh

Photographs by George Steinmetz In his remarkable career, George Steinmetz has shot all over the world for National Geographic, The New York Times and countless other publications. Feeding The Planet is a companion piece to his phenomenal new book Feed The Planet. This show is an extraordinary collection of low altitude photographs of global food production. They are big prints and must be seen on the gallery walls to be truly appreciated. VIEW GEORGE STEINMETZ’S “FEEDING THE PLANET”

India's Unique Relationship Photographs by Annette Bonnier India has a long and complex relationship with its elephants. Equal parts spiritual being and work animal, the relationship can be confusing and disturbing to the outside observer. Bonnier's fascination with this dichotomy and the animals themselves has led her to immerse herself in the culture and produce a beautiful collection of memorable photographs depicting this unique relationship. Her book "India's Elephants" accompanies this sho

The Social Documentary Network Presents: The 2019 Zeke Award Winners Toby Binder - Youth of Belfast With the UK’s Brexit looming, the future of Northern Ireland and the threat of worsening sectarian divisions are once again in the news. These photos cover the common problems affecting young people in Belfast’s Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods. The division between the neighborhoods is still intense, but unemployment, drug abuse, and violence are common denominators on both sides of the

The Social Documentary Network Presents: The 2020 Zeke Award Winners Cousins is Kristen Joy Emack’s wonderful view into the life of her daughter and her two cousins. Shot over ten years, she captures the closeness, connection, and togetherness of these three girls as they help each other navigate growing up. Last Wildest Place is a remarkable collection of photographs made by Jason Houston over the past five years in the remote upper Amazon in Southeastern Peru. In collaboration with writer an

Mattie Simas is an award winning documentary photographer who has traveled extensively to bring a deeply humanistic viewpoint to difficult subjects like sexual trafficking and forced marriage. Since joining the Limb Kind Foundation in 2018 she has traveled extensively in Africa, covering their mission to bring prosthetic limbs to victims of trauma and war. In the spring of 2022 after an assignment with Limb Kind, she traveled with an interpreter to the Omo Valley in Southwest Ethiopia to photogr

For the third year in a row we are pleased to partner with the Social Documentary Network to present highlights from the 2021 ZEKE Award for documentary photography. This year BRIDGE Gallery has curated the show from over 100 submissions to highlight 19 photographers from around the world. It's a stunningly diverse show, both stylistically and geographically. VIEW WORLD VIEW

The glass negative collection of Robert Alter. Glass plate negatives were an important technical development in the photographic process. Glass, as a dimensionally stable and optically neutral material, was the perfect medium for recording an image. From the 1840’s through the 1960’s, glass was the negative support of choice for many professional photographers. Robert Alter has spent the last twenty years scouring auctions, yard sales, and antique stores, amassing a formidable collection. S

Searching For Elegance in the Built Environment In this series of "industrial portraits"  Greig Cranna showcases the beauty and elegance found in the design of the infrastructure that enriches, and makes possible, our everyday lives. VIEW COINCIDENTAL BEAUTY

The Underwater Photographs of Keith Ellenbogen Currently an assistant professor at SUNY/FIT and artist in residence at MIT’s Sea Grant, Keith Ellenbogen is working to make photographs that increase awareness of the marine environment and inspire positive social change. His mastery of the underwater environment is obvious from the intimate unobtrusive style he brings to his photographs of fantastical undersea creatures.