Photography

As a high school student, Kevin Systrom was known as much for his photography as for his computer skills. Systrom, who grew up in Holliston, wrote how photography was his way ‘‘to show my outlook on the world to everyone," recalled Kathleen Giles, the head of Middlesex School in Concord. Photography, Systrom wrote as a junior, was how he hoped to ‘‘inspire others to look at the world in a new way. " Systrom has certainly lived up to that early ambition. On Monday, the cofounder and chief executive of Instagram, the mobile photo sharing service, revealed that...

When she organized last fall's "On the Edge" juried exhibition at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, artistic director Kris Waldman hoped to generate more diversity in the gallery's offerings. She was richly rewarded when the contest attracted the work of photographer Lindsey Payson, a 23-year-old Hopkinton native and recent graduate of Vassar College. As a reward for winning the "On the Edge" competition, Payson now has her own show at the center, entitled "Studies Abroad. " "I've long been trying to introduce some new exhibits to our gallery, both with the goal of...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - "A New Vision: Modernist Photography," which runs at the Currier Museum of Art through May 13, is three shows. It's a gapped history of 20th-century photography (the first photograph here, actually, is from 1880). It's a somewhat wayward survey of the modernist aesthetic in photography - wayward as any show consisting of nearly 150 photographs by more than 60 photographers not only has to be but ought to be. And "A New Vision" is a well-deserved celebration of the Currier's photography holdings.

There's a buzz around the season-closing installment of the New Gallery Concert Series Thursday at the Community Music Center of Boston. "Bees and Honey" offers Christine Collins's photos of backyard beekeeping alongside a bee-related contemporary music program featuring a world-premiere composition by John Howell Morrison. Morrison's "What the Honeybee Knows" was commissioned by New Gallery for Collins's exhibit "The Keepers. " "He's really taken it to a place he wouldn't have gone before, and that's what it's all about," said pianist Sarah Bob, artistic...

The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University is commonly referred to as the PRC. For the next six weeks, an apter acronym might be VSRC - as in Visualization Sciences Resource Center. "Visualization sciences" (who knew there was such a thing?) is what one of the eight artists in "Syntax" holds a master's degree in. But in a sense, visualization sciences is what they all practice. The show runs at the VSRC - er, PRC - through May 10. Visualization sciences is a more comprehensive, and perhaps more accurate, term than photographic resource to describe the contents of "Syntax.

WILLIAM GARNETT"S AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY At: Fitchburg Art Museum, 25 Merriam Parkway, Fitchburg, through March 18, 978-345-4207, www.fitchburgartmuseum.org FITCHBURG - So much of our understanding of what we see depends on where we see it from: near , far , beneath , beside , and, rarest of all, above . Visually, those simple words can have very complicated consequences. Above is nowhere near as rare as it once was, of course, thanks to skyscrapers and satellites and such.

This was taken last night by BU gastronomy student Katherine Hysmith, who was part of a class taught by photographer Nina Gallant (she's in the flowered shirt) and food stylist Meridith Byrne (in a green apron). The students are in my food writing class at BU and I took them to Nina's studio so they could learn about photography and styling (you can't blog without posting photos and you have to know how to do them). Here is Nina showing us shots from a day she spent in Vermont in a cheese cave.

Professional photographer Richard Ferland will present a program on China at Scituate Town Library next Sunday at 3 p.m. A professional photographer, Ferland lived and worked in China for years, and hopes to present insights into the country's culture and sights. The program will include photos, travel tips, interesting stories, and insights for everyone from armchair travelers to future visitors. For more information, visit www.scituatetownlibrary.org. - Jessica Bartlett

WORCESTER -- In 1904, the Worcester Art Museum became one of the first institutions to exhibit photographs as art objects. The foresight in mounting such a show should not be underestimated. The acceptance of photography as an art form is startlingly recent. John Szarkowski, the legendary longtime curator of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, boasts that well into the 1960s he could buy a print of any living photographer's work for $25 -- and the work of dead ones "cost only a hundred!"

FOXBOROUGH - Sammy Morris is sharpening his focus this season. On the field, the nine-year veteran is an integral part of the Patriots' running back corps, so he figures to play an important role in Sunday's season opener against the Chiefs. But his focus has extended beyond football - he's a budding photographer. Morris has been snapping pictures for a few years, but has mostly kept his shots private. Only now, with more confidence in his work, is he opening up this side of his life.

CAMBRIDGE — The intersection of science and art is technology. Few people have understood that better than Berenice Abbott did, and few people have more ably practiced photography (one of the most splendid products of that intersection) than she did, either. "There needs to be a friendly interpreter between science and the layman," she wrote in 1939. "I believe that photography can be this spokesman, as no other form of expression can be. " Just how good a form is made plain by "Berenice Abbott, Photography and Science: An Essential Unity.

George McLean, Medford's intrepid nature photographer, stayed on the case until he got the first shot of baby Dawn at the Red-tail Hawk nest on a side street west of the Alewife Brook Reservation in Cambridge. Here's George's account: "This is tough photography, shooting from a distance with a teleconverter, but well worth the effort. The nest is deep and as I watched mom Ruby feeding, all I could see was tiny beaks ripping at the red meat. " Meanwhile, proud papa Buzz (below)

Journalism Public service: The Philadelphia Inquirer for its exploration of violence in the city's schools. Breaking news reporting: The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News staff for its coverage of a deadly tornado. Investigative reporting: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan, and Chris Hawley of The Associated Press for coverage of the New York Police Department's spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities. Explanatory reporting: David Kocieniewski of The New York Times for his series explaining how the nation's wealthiest citizens and...

As a high school student, Kevin Systrom was known as much for his photography as for his computer skills. Systrom, who grew up in Holliston, wrote how photography was his way ‘‘to show my outlook on the world to everyone," recalled Kathleen Giles, the head of Middlesex School in Concord. Photography, Systrom wrote as a junior, was how he hoped to ‘‘inspire others to look at the world in a new way. " Systrom has certainly lived up to that early ambition. On Monday, the cofounder and chief executive of Instagram, the mobile photo sharing service, revealed that...

Natalie Dykstra, author of "Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life," will be featured at the Hingham Public Library's "An Evening With the Author" on April 4 at 7 p.m. Marian "Clover" Adams, the wife of writer Henry Adams, is a little-known figure in history, and isn't mentioned in his autobiography, which also skips Clover's suicide, done by ingesting the cyanide that she used in her photography. Sykstra seeks to correct the historical imbalance by telling Clover's own story.

One of the featured photographs in Bob Newman's exhibit. The following was submitted by Abbot Public Library:  Local photographer Bob Newman will present "REFLECTIONS", an exhibition of his work, at the Abbot Library's Virginia Carten Gallery, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 4th, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  All are welcome!  The exhibit will continue through Saturday, March 30th. About the work in the exhibit, Bob says: "Growing up in Marblehead, I didn't think much about the nature of reality: I assumed it was...

Conversation is a matter of mouth and ear, of what’s said and heard. Except at the Museum of Fine Arts right now, where through June 19 conversation concerns the eye and what’s seen. That recasting of what it means to converse is the most fundamental of the many delicious dislocations — conceptual, chronological, and, of course, visual — that define “Conversations: Photography From the Bank of America Collection.’’ That old saw, “if these walls could talk’’? Here it’s what’s on the walls, more than a hundred photographs, that does the talking.

NEW YORK -- Helen Gee, whose Limelight gallery in Greenwich Village in the 1950s blazed a trail for the selling of photography as art, died Sunday at a Manhattan hospice. She was 85. Ms. Gee opened Limelight in 1954, showing work by artists as diverse as Ansel Adams and Rudolph Burckhardt and setting a standard for photography galleries. Ms. Gee was born Helen Charlotte Wimmer in 1919 in Jersey City. At 16 she came to the Village to live with Yun Gee, a Chinese modernist painter.

This was taken last night by BU gastronomy student Katherine Hysmith, who was part of a class taught by photographer Nina Gallant (she's in the flowered shirt) and food stylist Meridith Byrne (in a green apron). The students are in my food writing class at BU and I took them to Nina's studio so they could learn about photography and styling (you can't blog without posting photos and you have to know how to do them). Here is Nina showing us shots from a day she spent in Vermont in a cheese cave.