Created by local documentary photographer and creative director Edward Boches in partnership with Allston Village Main Streets, Postcards from Allston is a project intended to celebrate Allston, document its change, and support local artists and small business owners. The program includes the ongoing photographic coverage of this changing neighborhood, exhibits and installations, and the sale of postcards. There are plans to eventually expand the program and website with galleries for local artists, profiles of small business owners, and an educational component.
Edward Boches
Edward Boches is a Boston and Cape Cod-based street and documentary photographer.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 PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont; the Providence Center for the Photographic Arts; and in Boston at both the Bromfield Gallery (online) and Panopticon Gallery.
Boches’s work has also been appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Zeke Magazine and the Provincetown Independent, where he is a regular contributor. Interested in the ways in which ordinary people live, work, play, struggle and take action, he frequently donates his photography to causes and organizations he believes in.
He is the writer, creative director and photographer for the project, Postcards from Allston, and for this website: postcardsfromallston.com
Note please that all photographs are the copyright of Edward Boches. Please use only with permission. And if you must steal an image, please credit to @edwardboches and/or edwardboches.com
Allston Village Main Streets
Allston Village Main Streets was founded in 1995, by the Boston Mayor’s office as part of the city’s Main Streets Network. The organization works to help make Allston Village a thriving, safe, and friendly business district. Its charter is to promote a healthy commercial district and to keep it clean, green and more pedestrian-friendly. AVMS regularly provides grants to implement maintenance and design improvements, offers technical assistance and support to local businesses, produces events that draw people to Allston, and works diligently to advocate on behalf of the neighborhood.
Alex Cornacchini is the executive director of Allston Village Main Streets.