Within the spaces I choose to photograph, which are often pretty specific, I wander a great deal. Being outside is important, as I’m often interested in disruptions to the natural landscape. Finding the unexpected - discarded jeans lying intertwined with garbage, trees, and plants; the way a raven’s wingspan seems to echo the crossed bars in a composition - is what keeps me looking for new things to make pictures from.
I was born and raised in Upstate New York and spent 13 years in New York City. I currently live in Lebanon, NH with my wife, two daughters, and dog Ruby.
I received an M.F.A. in Photography from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and a B.A. in English from New York University.
I'm also a 46er.
This site is the sole responsibility of me. I completely designed and coded it, and all the photographs are mine (unless otherwise noted). It is maintained with Movable Type and hosted at Pair.
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Print Publications
Observations in the Ordinary, Subjectively Objective, 2019.
Surreal Estate, Float Magazine, 2019.
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2023
Exposure 2023, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA. (Director's Award)
2022
2022 Juried Exhibition, AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, NH.
2021
The Magic is in the Seeing: Philip Perkis and His Creative Legacy, Undercroft Gallery/Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York NY.
2020
Portraits Without People, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
Observations in the Ordinary, Subjectively Objective, Detroit, MI.
2019
2019 Open Photo Exhibit, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge MA. (Juror's Choice Award)
2018
Exposure 2018, Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA.
Solo: Orbiter, AVA Gallery and Art Center,, Lebanon, NH.
The Curated Fridge Spring 2018 Show, The Curated Fridge, Cambridge, MA
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2017
Is Photography Enough?, Society for Photographic Education Northeast Chapter Conference Juried Exhibition, 118 Elliot, Brattleboro, VT.
2nd Juried Photobook Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT.
Reclaim Photography Festival 2017: Reclaiming Our Cultural Landscapes, Lighthouse Media Center, Wolverhampton, England.
Where I Come From — Alternatives Show, School of Art and Design, Ohio University, Athens, OH
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2016
Solo: Selections from Sunday, Roth Center for Jewish Life, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
From the Pastoral to the Political, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, VT
Man in the Landscape, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Structures, Loosen Art, Cagliari, Italy
Home, Mills Town Art Gallery, St. James, NY
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2015
New England Photography Biennial, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
Solo: Sunday, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
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2013
Images: Nicholas Gaffney, Evan Clayton Horback, Mary Mead, Nuance Gallery, Windsor, VT
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2012
Solo: 12A, AVA Gallery and Art Center,, Lebanon, NH
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2011
Art Faculty Exhibition, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
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2010
Landscape Invitational, Art Strand, Provincetown, MA
Sense of Space/Sense of Place, Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH
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2009
Art Faculty/Alumni Exhibition, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
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2008
Art Faculty Exhibition, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
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2007
Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Ocho, Santa Barbara, CA
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2006
Color Correction, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
Group Show, Xi Gallery, Gent, Belgium
The Expression of Elemental Passions... (or, Damn Everything But the Circus), Plus Ultra Gallery, New York, NY
Mystery History, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
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2004
Solo: Treasure Hunt, Plus Ultra Gallery, New York, NY
Art & Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers, The Tobacco Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
Face to Face: Portraits and Self-Portraits in Photography, Steuben Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Allen Frame
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2003
Group Show, Rome Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2001
Solo:Nicholas Gaffney, Landscape, and the Environment, M.F.A. Thesis Show, Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Put Yourself in the Picture, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Juried by Tom Gitterman
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1999
Solo: Europe From A Distance, the Dirt Cowboy Café, Hanover, NH
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Exhibitions Curated
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2010
Interior Life, Photography Show, Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
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Collections
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Various Private Collections
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Artist Talks
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2004; 2002
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
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2002
Art in General, Slide Slam, New York, NY
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Bibliography
Roula Seikaly, Portraits Without People: An Online Companion to Axis Gallery Sacramento's Quarantined Exhibition, Humble Arts, March, 2020.
Mark Feeney, The PRC arrives in Porter Square, Boston Globe, July, 2018.
EmmaJean Holley, Lebanon Photographer Sends Images From Near Earth, The Valley News, May, 2018.
Caitlin Kennedy, Spheris succeeds with eye-grabbing exhibit 'Sense of Space', The Dartmouth, March, 2010.
Review of Sense of Space, Sense of Place, Valley News, March, 2010.
Sarah M. Earle, Inner Worlds, Concord Monitor, January 28, 2010.
Joel Simpson, Williamsburg: A Survey of New Shows, The New York Art World, October, 2004, 14.
Stephen Maine, Dateline Brooklyn, Artnet, September, 2004.
David Cousin-Marsy, View From Baxter - Nicholas Gaffney - Autoportrait, Actuphoto, 2004.