Edward Boches is a Boston and Cape Cod - based documentary photographer.
Interested in how photography can connect us, help us understand each other, and inspire empathy, Boches has photographed such diverse communities as inner-city boxers, former gang members, Black Lives Matter activists, transgender men and women, pro-life and pro-choice advocates, women shellfishers, and homeless writers. He makes it a point to meet and photograph at least one stranger every day.
photo: Christie Towers
His work has shown in museums and galleries that include the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester; the Bronx Documentary Center in New York City; the Cambridge Association for the Arts; the Plymouth Center for the Arts; the Providence Center for the Photographic Arts; Bob Korn’s Workspace Gallery on Cape Cod; and in Boston at both the Bromfield Gallery (online) and Panopticon Gallery among others.
Boches’s work has also been distributed internationally by the Associated Press and has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Sun Magazine, Zeke Magazine and the Provincetown Independent, where he is a regular contributor.
In 2021 and 2022, he received multiple grants for public art installations for his community based project Postcards from Allston. The project advocates for small businesses, raises money for local arts initiatives, and calls attention to how gentrification disrupts communities and affects the artists who reside there.
Before his hair turned gray, Boches was a full-time professor at Boston University; an early partner, chief creative officer and chief innovation officer at Mullen (now MullenLowe) where he worked for 30-plus years; a speechwriter at Data General; and a newspaper reporter, photographer and editor for Today in Greater Lawrence. He was the co-author of the best-selling “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This,” and the creative director on Monster’s “When I Grow Up” Super Bowl commercial, considered one of the top ten Super Bowl ads of all time.
Recognition (media coverage, publication and exhibits)
2024
Provincetown Independent Arts Pages, Feature Story and Review / A Focus on Place
Social Documentary Network, Home Page Feature / A Return to the Belly of the Beast
Zeke Magazine, selected for publication, Women on the Tide
The Workspace Gallery at Bob Korn Imaging, Solo Exhibit / Inspired by Place
Social Documentary Network, Front Page / Women on the Tide
Oysterfest 2024, Projection Exhibit / Artist Talk / Women on the Tide
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay / Women on the Tide
LFI International Gallery, Leica Master Shot / On the Grant
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay / August / Where the Wild Things Grow
LFI International Gallery, Leica Master Shot / Sarah and Khalief
Provincetown Independent, Photo Essay / July / Planting Time
Social Documentary Network / Online Exhibit / A Gaza Liberation Seder
Cathedral Church of St. Paul / Exhibit / March / Stations of the Cross by the Black Seed Writers
Sun Magazine, April Issue: Editor’s Choice / Down in the Valley
Provincetown Independent, Photo Essay / March / Wellfleet Has Its Opening Day
2023
Zeke.com, selected for publication, The Men’s March
Boston Public Library, Rotating Screen Exhibit, Wisdom from the Streets
Sun Magazine, December Issue: Editor’s Choice / Santa Con
Brookline Booksmith: Out Here 6 / An Exhibition of Image and Text
Provincetown Independent Photo Series: Hats are a Summer Tradition
New England Newspaper Awards: Feature Photography, Third Place / Risky Business
AP News / International Distribution: Welcome Blankets
Fields West Installation: Allston in Black and White
Boston Globe - quotes, links. portrait : Residential Neighborhoods are Thriving
2022
Provincetown Independent: Selected Artist / They
Brewster Ladies Library, Solo Show: Soul of the Outer Cape
Boston Globe, Renee Loth column: Greetings from Allston, Wish You Were Here
Griffin Museum of Photography, 28th Annual Online Juried Members Show: A Return to Forever
Fraction Magazine, Anniversary Issue; Jurors Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu: A Return to Forever
Crossings Gallery, Harvard University’s Ed Portal: Postcards (and Portraits) from Allston
Private Grant for Public Art Installation for Postcards and Portraits from Allston : 144 Harvard Ave, Allston
Assemblage Art Space, Fort Point Channel: Views of Us; Street Photography of Boston / Somewhere Along the Curve and A Return to Forever
NBC TV News: Feature segment on Postcards from Allston Harvard Ave. Installation
Cambridge Art Association, Solo Show at the Notch Brewery: Postcards from Allston
PhotoPlace Gallery, Juried Show (Jeff Curto, juror) Traces: Spoons
Boston Main Streets Foundation Grant for Postcards from Allston: Installation at 449 Cambridge Street, Boston
2021
Cambridge Center for the Arts: Small Works Exhibit
City of Boston, Public Art Installation and Exhibit: Postcards from Allston
Boston Globe Arts Section: Postcards from Allston
Cambridge Center for the Arts: Featured Profile
Griffin Museum of Photography, Online Exhibition, 27th Juried Show: Image / Pandemic Day 11
Plymouth Center for the Arts, The Fine Art of Photography: Juried selection, French Doors
Plymouth Center for the Arts, The Fine Art of Photography: Juried selection, Candy Cane Colors
Cambridge Art Association Bodies: Juried selection, Survivor with Cherry Garcia
Brazil Worker Center: Solo Exhibit / Food in Solidarity
City of Boston’s Allston Village Main Streets: Postcards from Allston
Panopticon Gallery: Somewhere Along the Curve and Pandemic Boston
What Will You Remember: Highlight of the Month, Pandemic Boston
2020
Provincetown Independent: Selected Artist
What Will You Remember: review of Somewhere Along the Curve and Pandemic Boston
WGBH: Pandemic Boston
Boston Globe Arts Section: Pandemic Boston
BU Today: Online Gallery: Somewhere Along the Curve
Griffin Museum of Photography, Online Exhibition, 26th Juried Show: Image / Major Intersection
Brewster Ladies Library: Solo Show: Selected Works (postponed due to Covid)
Social Documentary Network: Somewhere Along the Curve
NCOA, Age Well For All: Honorable Mention / Time to Go Home
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center Gallery, Primary Source: Image / Fans
2019
The WorkPlace Gallery, The Cape Collection (group show): Blues on the Bay
Provincetown Independent: Selected Artist
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center Gallery, Mother Tongue: Image / Stewartia
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center Gallery, Abstraction Attraction: Image / Bay Side
2018
Griffin Museum of Photography, SoWa Gallery: Solo Exhibit / Seeking Glory
LA Photo Curator Confronting Mortality: Two Honorable Mentions / Slowly at First
Social Documentary Network, Highlight of the Month: Slowly at First
Social Documentary Network 10th Anniversary Juried Show, Bronx Documentary Center: Seeking Glory
Stand Magazine, Featured Photographer of the Month: Slowly at First
The Gallery Upstairs: The Cape Collection / Bay Side
The Griffin Museum of Photography: Atelier 28 / Slowly at First
2017
Lowell Sun: Featured Slide Show / Seeking Glory
The Griffin Museum of Photography: Atelier 26 / Seeking Glory
2016
Griffin Museum of Photography: Atelier 24 / The Skateboarder’s Canvas
Providence Center for the Arts: The Skateboarder’s Canvas