
Kat Miller '19
Art provides a platform for conversation and conversation is vital in the beginning to change the world.”
Kat Miller, a senior in MECA&D's Photography Program, has been working on a series entitled On the Cusp of Womanhood. Her work is featured in Girls, Interrupted, a three-day, all-female exhibition in London presenting uncensored works of illustration, photography, paintings, and sculptures created by 19 stereotype-defying artists, from . . .Read More

Greta Grant '16
After taking color photography classes I realized how essential color is to my work.”
Describe a body of work that you are currently working on. In my current body of work, I am investigating disappearances, and what remains in the wake of those who are absent, but still alive. These photographs explore intimacy, identity, and loss within a family. I sometimes construct my photographs, but most are made spontaneously, . . .Read More

Morrigan McCarthy ’07
I let my curiosity lead me.”
How did you learn about Salt? A photographer friend in Portland took me to the final show of the 2006 fall semester, when the photography was still black and white film! I had been shooting some weddings and portraits locally and thought that was going to be my career, but within 10 minutes of walking […]Read More

Harlan Crichton ’12 & Zak Taillon ’12
Interview with Harlan Crichton ’12
Can you describe the project?
In 2013, I began a 13,000 mile . . .”
"For the Love of Dolphins" is a compilation made during a 13,000-mile road trip through Rural America. Created by Harlan Crichton '12, soundtrack by Zak Taillon '12Read More

Brittany Marcoux '10
My time spent at MECA was crucial to my photographic practice. ”
Describe a body of work that you have made. During my time at MECA&D I worked on a photographic series dealing with my hometown in Swansea, Massachusetts. I titled it Born Into This, a line borrowed from a Charles Bukowski’s poem “Dinosauria We." I had just moved back to the East Coast to finish my […]Read More

Ray Ewing '12
My education at MECA laid the groundworks for my approach to my studio practice as an image-maker first.”
Describe a body of work that you have worked on recently. Since I left my resort-town island home of Martha's Vineyard, my work has been about exploring my relationship with that place. Obsessing over my connection to Martha's Vineyard has led to in-depth investigations of tourism, leisure, and simulated beauty. My current project . . .Read More

Justin Kirchoff
My perspective is not of the idealistic youth, beauty or one of older wisdom. It is an incongruent blend.”
Through his art, Professor of Photography Justin Kirchoff explores his personal curiosity of the built landscape, personal identity and beauty of the photographic print. His current work explores the contradictions and connections of fatherhood, masculinity and the home, while prodding the clichés of midlife. In 2013 he received a . . .Read More