Picture Show: Places of Education

This week, as children and young people all over the country return to school from their summer vacations, we turn our attention to some educational locales in Massachusetts. We often think of the Bay State as being home to a number of the nation's oldest most venerable educational institutions, and it is. Yet for her visual exploration, "Places of Education," the photographer Lissa Rivera canvased an array of the state's public and private schools, universities, Greek societies, and community colleges, focusing on the interiors of buildings themselves rather than the students. In so doing, she captured a number of captivating images that speak loudly about the settings we assemble for the purpose of learning.

"In some of the private schools there's this sort of constructed sense of history or expectation, with all those portraits watching over the students," says Rivera. "But I didn't go into the project with an agenda or a specific juxtaposition in mind. I just wanted to see what was inside some of these places."

What follows is a selection from Lissa Rivera's "Places of Education."


Library, The Roxbury Latin School



Coach's Office, The Roxbury Latin School



Art Studio, The Windsor School



Bulfinch Hall Lobby, Phillips Academy, Andover



Gym, Worcester Academy



Wall of Fame, Boston, Massachusetts



Ladies Room , Dorchester, Massachusetts



Front Stairs, Phi Delta Theta, MIT



Classroom, Brighton, Massachusetts



Portrait of Lincoln, Milton Academy



Alumni Room, Beta Gamma Epsilon, Northeastern



Auditorium I, Bunker Hill Community College



Library, Northern Essex Community College


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