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 oyster farmers, and homeless writers. He regularly donates his images and services to social and environmental causes and organizations he believes in and speaks frequently on the role of photographer as advocate.
photo: Christie Towers
His work has shown in museums and galleries across New England and New York with solo exhibits at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Preservation Hall in Wellfleet, the Workspace Gallery on Cape Cod, and the Ed Portal Gallery at Harvard University. Group shows include the Bronx Documentary Center in New York City, Panopticon Gallery in Boston, the Cambridge Association for the Arts, the Plymouth Center for the Arts, and 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 as both a writer and photographer.
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 the legendary ad agency Mullen 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.
EXHIBITS AND JURIED SHOWS
2026
Griffin Museum of Photography, Solo Exhibit, Labors of Love
GIA Detroit, Group Exhibition, At Home, Women on Tide
2025
Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Group Show, Hanging Out and Circus
The Workspace Gallery, Small Works, Group Show, By the Tide
Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Solo Exhibit, By the Tide
The Workspace Gallery at Bob Korn Imaging, Solo Exhibit, Inspired by Place
2024
Oysterfest 2024, Projection Exhibit, Artist Talk, Women on the Tide
LFI International Gallery, Leica Master Shot, On the Grant
LFI International Gallery, Leica Master Shot, Sarah and Khalief
Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Stations of the Cross, Portraits of the Black Seed Writers
2023
Boston Public Library, Rotating Screen Exhibit, Wisdom from the Streets
Brookline Booksmith,Out Here 6 , Wisdom from the Streets
Fields West Installation, Allston in Black and White
2022
Brewster Ladies Library, Solo Show, Soul of the Outer Cape
Griffin Museum of Photography, 28th Annual Online Juried Members Show, 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
Cambridge Art Association, Notch Brewery, Solo Exhibit, Postcards from Allston
PhotoPlace Gallery, Juried Show (Jeff Curto, juror) Traces, Spoons
City of Boston Main Streets Foundation,Solo Exhibit and Installation, 449 Cambridge Street, Boston, Postcards and Portraits from Allston
2021
Cambridge Center for the Arts, Small Works Exhibit
City of Boston, Allston Village Main Streets, Public Art Installation and Solo Exhibit, Postcards from Allston
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
Panopticon Gallery,Somewhere Along the Curve andPandemic Boston
2020
Griffin Museum of Photography, Online Exhibition, 26th Juried Show, Image, Major Intersection
Brewster Ladies Library, Solo Show, Selected Works (postponed due to Covid)
Griffin Museum of Photography, Lafayette Center Gallery, Primary Source, Image, Fans
2019
The WorkPlace Gallery, The Cape Collection (group show), Blues on the Bay
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
Bronx Documentary Center, Social Documentary Network 10th Anniversary Juried Show, Seeking Glory
The Gallery Upstairs, The Cape Collection, Bay Side
The Griffin Museum of Photography, Atelier 28, Slowly at First
2017
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
MEDIA, PRESS AND AWARDS
2026
New England Newspaper Awards, Feature Photo Story, Second Place, Women on Tide
Townie’s, Issue Two, Editor’s Selection
What Will You Remember, Best Photo Picks, Spring 2026, Labors of Love
2025
Communication Arts, Juried Selection, Women on Tide
Townie’s, Inaugural Edition, Editor’s Selection
Zeke Magazine, Winter 2025, Editor’s Selection, Women on Tide
Social Documentary Network, Front Page, Tesla Takedown
2024
Social Documentary Network, Home Page Feature, A Return to the Belly of the Beast
Zeke Magazine, selected for publication, Women on the Tide
Social Documentary Network, Front Page, Women on the Tide
Provincetown Independent Arts Pages, Feature Story and Review , A Focus on Place
Social Documentary Network, Online Exhibit, A Gaza Liberation Seder
Sun Magazine, April Issue, Editor’s Choice, Down in the Valley
2023
Zeke.com, selected for publication, The Men’s March
Sun Magazine, December Issue, Editor’s Choice, Santa Con
AP News, International Distribution, Welcome Blankets
New England Newspaper Awards, Feature Photography, Third Place,Risky Business
Boston Globe - quotes, links. portrait, Residential Neighborhoods are Thriving
2022
Boston Globe, Renee Loth column, Greetings from Allston, Wish You Were Here
Provincetown Independent, Selected Artist, They
Fraction Magazine, Anniversary Issue; Jurors Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu, A Return to Forever
NBC TV News, Feature segment on Postcards from Allston Harvard Ave. Installation
2021
WGBH, Feature News Story, Volunteers of America
Boston Globe Arts Section,Postcards from Allston
Cambridge Center for the Arts,Featured Profile
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
Social Documentary Network, Somewhere Along the Curve
NCOA, Age Well For All, Honorable Mention, Time to Go Home
2019
Provincetown Independent, Selected Artist
2018
Social Documentary Network, Highlight of the Month, Slowly at First
Stand Magazine, Featured Photographer of the Month, Slowly at First
2017
Lowell Sun, Featured Slide Show, Seeking Glory
PUBLISHED PHOTO ESSAYS
2025
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, Behind the Buzz
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, An Ode to Nature
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, Invisible Stresses Threaten Kettle Ponds
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, Time to Wake the Oysters
2024
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, Women on the Tide
Provincetown Independent, Feature Story and Photo Essay, August, Where the Wild Things Grow
Provincetown Independent, Photo Essay, March, Wellfleet Has Its Opening Day
Provincetown Independent, Photo Essay, July, Planting Time
2023
Provincetown Independent Photo Series, Hats are a Summer Tradition