Visit the 2020 Somerville Toy Camera Festival Galleries
Nordstrom Gallery
Jones Gallery
Franson Gallery
2020 Jurors
Alison Nordström is an independent curator and historian of photographs based in Cambridge, Massachusetts whose work considers all kinds of photographs and the ways they are used and understood. In addition to ongoing publication and exhibition projects, she is a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate Department of Photography, Lesley University and a curator for the Hamburg Triennial of Photography (2018). In 2015 and 2016, she was Artistic Director of the Lodz (Poland) Fotofestiwal, and from 2004 to 2013, Senior Curator of Photographs and Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House. She has curated over 100 exhibitions of photography, in nine countries, including extensive surveys of landscape, portraiture, journalism and contemporary art as well as important exhibitions and publications on Lewis Hine, Robert Rauschenberg, Pictorialism, and the photographies of colonialism. She holds a BA in English Literature, an MLS with museum emphasis, and a PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.
Lou Jones' eclectic career has evolved from commercial to the personal. It has spanned every format, film type, artistic movement and technological change. He maintains a studio in Boston, Massachusetts and has photographed for Fortune 500 corporations, international companies and local small businesses including Federal Express, Nike and the Barr Foundation; completed assignments for magazines and publishers all over the world such as Time/Life, National Geographic and Paris Match; initiated long term projects on the civilwars in Central America, death row, Olympics Games and pregnancy; and published multiple books. See Lou's work and additional info on his web site fotojones.com.
Bill Franson is a New England based Fine Art/Documentary Photographer, an Adjunct Professor at Gordon College, and a former instructor at the New England School of Photography. He has exhibited extensively on the national stage and has been selected three times to exhibit in the Danforth Museum’s New England Photography Biennial. He presented Mason-Dixon: American Fictions at the deCordova Museum in January 2019 in conjunction with the exhibit Larry Fink: Radical Empathy. Bill’s work is held in both institutional, private collections, and is represented by Gallery Kayafas, Boston. His website is billfranson.net.
Artists included in the galleries:
Mihaly Alagi
Philip Arnold
Lilyan Aloma
Zia Ayub
Chuck Baker
Yael Ben-Zion
Stephanie Bethel
Grace Bida
Slim Blanks
Richard Bonvissuto
Ronald Butler
Vincent Catania
JD Camillis
Sally Chapman
Allison Church
Gabriella Clifford
Roman Coia
Noemi Conesa
Paul Estavez
Liv Ferguson
Brian Franczyk
Bob Gervais
Vicky Gewirz
Carole Glauber
J. M. Golding
Julia Goujiamanis
Niels Hansen
Silke Hase
Barbara Justice
Marky Kauffmann
Kerrie Kemperman
Amanda Kilton
Angela Kleis
Srijaa Kundu
Michael Lawrence
Martin Ludl
Christopher Luhar-Trice
Kathrena Marie
Dan McCormack
Anna Melnikova
Atsuko Morita
Matt Murray
Ramey Newell
James Peregrine
Amanda Potter
Kay Ramming
Dawn Reilly
Catalina Reyes
Doug Robbins
Enrico Scek Osman
Christopher Seid
Lisa Shea
Michael Starkman
Dennis Stein
Kenneth Stevens
Victor Senkov
Antal Tarjani
Sara Trenchard
Christopher Turner
Maura Brennan Valentine
Anne Walker
Jacqueline Walters
Marna Waskin
Jan Watten
Francine Weiss
Michael Weitzman
Ksawery Wrobel
Jonas Yip
James Zall
Michael Zeis