Photographic Resource Center at Boston University

CONTACT:

832 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
617.975.0600
www.prcboston.org

Glenn Ruga, Executive Director

DESCRIPTION:

PRC was founded in 1976 by photographic artists Chris Enos, A.D. Coleman, and Jeff Weiss, as a regional newsletter to promote photographic happenings in the Boston area and surrounding region. “The Loupe” quickly became a clearinghouse for all things photographic, and was incorporated in 1977 as a public charity. Boston University donated space for offices and events—professional development workshops, seminars and lectures by luminaries such as Ansel Adams, Annie Leibowitz and Aron Siskind. In 1985 PRC acquired a gallery space from BU and developed exhibitions focusing on contemporary ideas and artists, along with the Aaron Siskind Library, which today holds over 4,000 books and periodicals. In 2005 they appointed a full-time Education Manager, whose award-winning exhibitions since then have included “PRC/POV: Photography Now and the Next Thirty Years”, on the future of photography; “Document”, a show of photographs of social and philanthropic subjects. Its Visiting Artists Lecture Series features six presentations annually, attracting hundreds of attendees, together with workshops for students, of some of the world’s most influential and respected photographers—Tina Barney, Ralph Gibson, Arno Rafeael Minkkinen, Laren Greenfield, William Christenberry, and Andres Serrano. PRC participates in the Boston CyberArts Festivals (Cat’05), and has over 1,200 individual, and more than 20 institutional college and university, members. It has collaborated with the MFA, the DeCordova, Grub Street, the New Center for Arts and Culture, and many others. In short, PRC is the happening place for artistic photography in this region, and you can become a part of its action.

(2008: CULTURE: Arts)