Frank Curran

Portals

As a street photographer, I often include people in my images of the urban environment. But when I unintentionally began this on-going project, in early 2020, the streets were empty.

In a fortuitous way, this condition forced me to look elsewhere – within windows, storefronts, and at reflections. I discovered that windows can become portals to new worlds. Worlds not bound by narrative or literal constraints as expressed in traditional street photography, but a space where imagination can roam and meaning is ambiguous, subjective or entirely elusive. Some might call it surreal.

: Illusion

: Prophesy

: Portal

: Patience

: Dormant

: Fraught

: Crossover

: The Passing of Time

: Stacked Deck

About

A graduate of Hunter College and Boston University, early in Frank’s career he studied creative photography with Carl Chiarenza, Stephan Gersh and Chris Enos. He has continued his studies by taking workshops with Emily Belz and Vaughn Sills at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

An assignment photographer for more than 40 years, Frank’s personal photography has begun to take its place alongside his commercial work.

Frank has exhibited work in two person shows at the Trident Bookseller Café on Newbury Street in Boston, and The Brookline Public Library and has appeared in group shows at the Davis/Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City TX, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, the Black Box Gallery in Portland OR, the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis and a Juror’s Choice Award for his image, “Strolling Through the Light Industrial Zone” from the Southeast Center of Photography in Greenville, SC.