The Photography Lecture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) brings leading voices in contemporary photography to campus each semester.
Our celebrated Photography Lecture Series features accomplished artists, historians, critics, and curators from diverse backgrounds and geographic locations. These visiting speakers are nationally and internationally recognized practitioners whose work shapes the field of photography today. Through lectures, discussions, and public programs, the series sparks dynamic conversations, supports critical inquiry, and connects students and the broader community with current ideas in the medium.
MassArt Spring 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris, “Edifice In,” 2024, Hand-cut photographic collage, 20×24.
Upcoming Lecture
Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Jess T. Dugan & Charlotte Cotton
- Tuesday, September 15, 2026 / 6:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Visiting Artist, Jess T. Dugan and Visiting Curator, Charlotte Cotton as speakers of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 6:00pm on Tuesday, September 15. Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores identity and the complexities of the human condition. While their practice is…
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Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Audrey Sands
- Tuesday, October 6, 2026 / 2:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Audrey Sands as a speaker of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, October 6. Audrey Sands is the Richard L. Menschel Associate Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. She specializes in twentieth-century photography in the United States, with…
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Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Abdulhamid Kircher
- Tuesday, October 20, 2026 / 2:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Abdulhamid Kircher as a speaker of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, October 20. Abdulhamid Kircher (b. 1996) is an artist from Queens, New York. He was born in Berlin to German and Turkish parents, and immigrated with his mother…
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Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Martin Kollar
- Tuesday, October 27, 2026 / 2:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Martin Kollar as a speaker of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, October 27. Martin Kollar, born in 1971 in Žilina, former Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), studied cinematography at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing…
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Fall 2026 Photo Lecture Series | Sheida Soleimani
- Tuesday, December 1, 2026 / 2:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MassArt Graduate Programs and Photography department are pleased to welcome Sheida Soleimani as the final speaker of the Fall 2026 Photography Lecture Series. Please join us in the Tower Auditorium at 2:00pm on Tuesday, December 1. Sheida Soleimani (b. 1990) is an Iranian-American artist, educator, and activist. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s, Soleimani…
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Past Photography Lecture Series
Explore past semesters of the MassArt Photography Lecture Series, featuring visiting artists and speakers whose work spans documentary, fine art, experimental, and interdisciplinary photographic practices.
Fall 2025 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Abelardo Morell, Tent-Camera Image: Poppy Field #2, Near Vetheuil, France, 2023.
Spring 2025 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Kathya Maria Landeros, Alex in Repose, 2006.
Fall 2024 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Barbara Bosworth, MoonRising (Antelope Lake), 2011.
Spring 2024 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Whitney Hubbs, Untitled (Dolphin), 2022.
Fall 2023 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Pao Houa Her, My grandmother’s favorite grandchild-Duachi, 2017. From the series My grandfather turned into a tiger. Courtesy of Bockley Gallery.
Fall 2022 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Rahim Fortune, Billy & Minzly, 2020.
Spring 2022 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Diana Markosian, Vieja Valley, from the series Santa Barbara, 2019.
Fall 2021 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Alejandro Cartagena, Fragmented Cities, Apodaca.
Spring 2021 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Genevieve Gaignard, Trailblazer (A Dream Deferred), 2017. Courtesey of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angelos.
Fall 2020 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Allen Frame, Ivana at the Window, Rome, 2017.
Spring 2020 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Carmen Winant, My Birth, 2018.
Fall 2019 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Mimi Plumb, Burnt Lamp, from Landfall, 1988.
Spring 2019 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Carolyn Drake, Untitled, from the series Wild Pigeon, 2013.
Fall 2018 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Gregory Halpern, Untitled, from ZZYZX, 2017.
Spring 2018 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Nigel Poor, Hilliard Image Mapped By Rubin Ramirez, from The San Quentin Project.
Fall 2017 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Justine Kurland, Untitled, 2016.
Spring 2017 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Katy Grannan, Anonymous, Modesto, CA, 2012, from the series The 99.
Fall 2016 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Zanele Muholi, Vuyelwa Makubetse, KwaThema Community Hall, Springs, Johannesburg, 2011.
Spring 2016 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Fazal Sheikh, Manita, Hindu boarding school, Ahmedabad, India, 2007, from the series Ladli. Courtesy of the artist and Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY.
Fall 2015 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Deana Lawson, Nikki’s Kitchen, Detroit, Michigan, 2015.
Spring 2015 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Corinne Noordenbos, Alzheimer 4.
Fall 2014 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Nicolas Heani, from Self Publish, Be Happy.
Spring 2014 Photography Lecture Series. Image: Daniel Gordon, Early Spring Onions, 2013. Courtesy of the Artist.
