Annual Show 2017
May 1 - June 30, 2017
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Guest Artist
Derrick Trotman
aka TruSoul
Performance: 'Wordology'
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INFocus Camera Club of Boston
"Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography."
George Eastman
INFocus Camera Club
INFocus Camera Club is located in Mission Hill, Boston. Our mission is to promote Art of Photography in local communities and provide an environment for social and cultural exchange.
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The Club holds various activities: workshops, special events, image critiques, field trips, exhibits and more. Members' photography experience ranges from absolute beginners to very competent and experienced photographers.
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INFocus is the recipient of a grant for 2018/19 from the Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust (MHFNT) for outstanding achievement in promoting community spirit and the art of photography in Mission Hill, Boston.
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We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to MHFNT for this award, to Diablo Glass School, Parker Hill Branch Library and Mission Hill Health Movement for providing venues for our events, and special thanks to Mission Hill Main Streets.
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NOTE: Unfortunately INFocus is not active anymore, but you are very welcome to browse past events and exhibitions. Lot of our former members are still active and have had their work exhibited around the world. From time to time we will post info of their current work and exhibitions.
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Exhibitions
Rob MacIntosh
INFocus member
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October 16 - December 30, 2025
Encounters Exhibition
Across continents and cultures, sixteen photographs bring together moments of human connection—between individuals and within groups—where everyday life reveals its quiet grace. From a subway in Boston to a riverbank in Cambodia, each image reflects a fleeting exchange shaped by light, timing, and presence.
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Seen together, they form a meditation on observation and empathy: how a glance, a gesture, or a shared silence can bridge distance and affirm our common humanity.
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About the Artist
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Rob MacIntosh brings a designer’s eye and a storyteller’s instinct to his photography. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, Graphic Design, 1969); he enjoyed a long career in design while remaining deeply involved with MassArt as Alumni Association President and Trustee Chair—reflecting his belief in public education and the value of a publicly funded college of art and design.
His connection to photography began early when his father built a small darkroom in their Dorchester apartment. During his studies at MassArt, exposure to the works of Ansel Adams, Minor White, and Henri Cartier-Bresson revealed photography as a language of form, emotion, and light.
After decades in design, MacIntosh returned to photography at the age of 70. A street-photography course with Jamaica Plain artist Robin Radin reignited his creative drive and led him back into the streets—watching, waiting, and responding to moments shaped by natural light and human presence.
His photographs have appeared in exhibitions and juried shows throughout Greater Boston and New England, earning numerous awards, including multiple Best of Show honors. Each print is produced by the artist using archival pigment processes to preserve tone, depth, and authenticity.
Today, his photographs continue to explore everyday moments as quiet exchanges of humanity.
Encounters gathers sixteen of these moments—connections made in passing yet filled with presence, illuminated by light, timing, and human connection.
INFocus Talks
INTalks are informal, informative discussions with experienced photographers. INTalks are not lectures, they are more about creative minds behind the camera and their art of photography, her/his career and photographic experience. Audience is encouraged to ask questions and actively participate in the discussion.
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Events are free for members and non-members.
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Community
Outreach
Exploring Creative Photography with high school students
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This workshop was a collaboration between INFocus and MissionSAFE, whose mission is to work with Boston's highly at-risk youth and their families to gain the skills and confidence to thrive, not just survive, and to improve their community and their world.
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INFocus Instructors: Rob MacIntosh & Steve Johnson
INFocus collaboration with Mission SAFE Project
INFocus collaboration with Mission SAFE Project
INFocus collaboration with Mission SAFE Project
INFocus Members' Gallery
Quotes on Photography
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus
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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
― Ansel Adams

“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter​

​“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag
“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography
​Oliver Brothers Custom Framing, the oldest fine art restoration company in the United States.
Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust
(MHFNT)
