Press and archive

Arnie Jarmak in print, on air, and in the museum.

Selected interviews, reviews, and newspaper features trace the continuing life of the photographs. For press, licensing, or archive requests, contact the studio directly.

Coverage and archive references

Chelsea Record ·

From the Photo Archives of Arnold Jarmak

The recurring archive feature includes a late-1970s photograph of 49–51 Broadway at Broadway and Medford Street. The official issue is linked externally.

Open the August 6, 2026 issue

The Boston Globe ·

In Gloucester, ‘Above the Fold’ celebrates those behind the lens

Reviewing Cape Ann Museum's Above the Fold exhibition, Mark Feeney pauses at Jarmak's nine Fishermen's Institute photographs and describes the engaged, caring presence that carries through the work.

Read the Cape Ann review

GBH / Morning Edition ·

A reimagining of Chekhov's classic 'The Cherry Orchard' bears fruit

Jared Bowen's GBH segment describes Jarmak's embedded relationship with Chelsea, the empathy in the work, and the difference between living in a community and briefly parachuting in for photographs.

Read or listen on GBH

Chelsea Record ·

McMullen Museum exhibition coverage

Arnie credits Diana Larsen with recognizing what he was trying to say through the photographs and helping open a new museum chapter for the work.

Read the Chelsea Record coverage

The Boston Globe ·

Chelsea, then and now, in black and white

Mark Feeney reviews Arnie Jarmak's McMullen Museum exhibition alongside Darlene DeVita's People of Chelsea Project, recognizing the history, social observation, personality, and artistry carried by Jarmak's photographs.

Read the McMullen review

The Salem News ·

A sea change: Photo essay resurrects memories of the Fishermen's Institute

Gail McCarthy revisits Jarmak's 1974 arrival in Gloucester, the working waterfront that met him there, and the Fishermen's Institute photographs through which a young photographer began to find his path.

Read the Gloucester feature

Chelsea Prospers ·

Chelsea Prospers EP5

In this recorded conversation, Arnie tells the Chelsea Record story in his own voice and discusses Andrew P. Quigley, the publisher whose part in that story Arnie wanted restored to the site.

Watch the interview

The Boston Globe ·

Arnold Jarmak’s photographs portray a bygone Chelsea

The profile accompanies Jarmak's April 2015 Chelsea City Hall exhibition and records his return to the negatives, his life inside Chelsea, and the freedom Andrew P. Quigley gave him at the Chelsea Record.

Read the profile

On air · GBH / Morning Edition

Arnie Jarmak on photographing Chelsea from within.

Jared Bowen's 2022 segment considers the empathy in Jarmak's photographs and the difference between living in a community and arriving only briefly to make pictures.

GBH / Morning Edition · 2 minutes, 54 seconds

Read the GBH story ↗
Supplied Chelsea Record archive clipping.

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