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Northshore October 2025
Walk into Olivia Parker’s seaside studio and the first thing you notice is that the outdoors has been brought in—shells, feathers, and assorted bits of organic matter. Parker has been a big fan of the natural world since her childhood in the Boston area. Later, moving to Manchester-by-the-Sea with her husband in 1967, she took daily walks to gather kelp, driftwood, and shells of all shapes and sizes. These natural bits can be glimpsed in PEM’s current exhibition, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, the first retrospective of the celebrated photographer’s work. Parker’s photography is represented in a numb
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