Larry C. Volk
We are proud to feature the works of Larry Volk . Larry is a visual artist, educator, and author with a dedication to photography and over three decades of experience in the field. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently serves as Professor of Photography at Endicott College. Larry's work spans a range of photographic media and has been exhibited regionally and nationally. He’s exhibited a number of times with the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Photographic Resource Center/Boston and has pieces held in both private and institutional collections. A member-artist at Boston’s Bromfield Gallery, he was recently named a Critical Mass Top 200 selection in 2024.
Les Souvenirs
Larry’s long term photographic series Les Souvenirs explores the intersection of memory, perception, and personal history. Combining family Kodachrome slides and chromolithographic postcards with patterns from Ishihara color vision tests, the work draws parallels between visual perception and the imperfections of memory.
Inspired by his father, an ophthalmologist, the series reflects on how we see and missee the past. It asks how our memory is shaped by images, and to what extent our recollections are selective, distorted, or incomplete. Through this blending of diagnostic form and personal archive, the project becomes a meditation on the fragility of both vision and remembrance.
Steven J. Duede, Visual Artist, Aspect Principal
Making this work raises questions regarding our perception of the past and the manner in which memories are informed and constructed through imagery.
Les Souvinirs
This series of images is a set of considerations regarding what we see, what we represent, and the foibles of memory. In the prints, which include family Kodachrome slides and chromolithographic postcards, I have employed dots appropriated from Ishihara Pseudoisochromatic plates.
Ishihara plates are used by ophthalmologists to test color perception. While the test plates reveal physical perceptual deficits, these anomalies have a parallel to our forms of recall. We may feel that the images we make and collect authentically reflect our experience, or be true to our sense of memory, but they may very well be idiosyncratic, inaccurate, and incomplete.
In the past decade, many of the works I have produced have been drawn from a collection of inherited images and materials and focus on family history, biography, reminiscence, and recall. This series is inspired by my interest in recalling and reclaiming family history through imagery and my father’s practice as an ophthalmologist. His work was in service of sight, and my work involves seeing through images.
Making this work raises questions regarding our perception of the past and the manner in which memories are informed and constructed through imagery. How is our construction and perception of what we recall anomalous and to what extent are the resulting memories inherently colored, selective and obscured?
-Larry C. Volk
Larry C. Volk
Larry C. Volk
Larry Volk is an artist, educator, lecturer and author. He holds an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught photography and visual art for over 30 years. He is currently a Professor of Photography in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Endicott College.
Visual Artist
As a visual artist, Larry works a range of photographic media. He was a Critical Mass Top 200 selection in 2024. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in both private and museum collections. He is a member-artist of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lecturer and Reviewer
Larry has lectured nationally on digital imaging, portfolio production, and art practice. He has also served as a portfolio reviewer for national and regional art and photographic competitions.
Educator and Author
As a faculty member in the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Larry teaches courses in photographic imaging, digital imaging and manipulation, studio lighting, documentary photography, portfolio, and senior thesis. His areas of expertise include documentary photography, location lighting and production, video and time-based production, photographic artist books, digital image editing and production, and fine art digital printing. He served as a member of the Executive Board of the Endicott College Faculty Association from 2006-2011 and as president of the association in 2010 and 2011, 2022- present.
Larry is the co-author with Danielle Currier of No Plastic Sleeves: The Complete Portfolio and Self-Promotion Guide, published by Focal Press. The third edition was released in 2020.
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