Information on Reviewers

An asterisk (*) before the reviewer’s name indicates they will be looking at student work only; a double-asterisk (**) indicates that they will be looking at professional artists’ work only. No mark indicates that they will look at both student and non-student work. Please honor reviewers’ preferences.

Jane Alden Stevens is Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati, and author of the recently published book "Tears of Stone: World War I Remembered". She is interested in looking at work in any media that is clear in concept and idea, as well as talking with students interested in
graduate school.

**Barry Anderson is a photographic and video installation artist, as well as Assistant Professor of Electronic Media in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is also one of the founders and curators of Time:Base, a new ongoing series of video and new media exhibits in Kansas City. He is primarily interested in looking at video/new media/installation work for possible inclusion in Time:Base exhibits but will also look at photography for possible exhibits at the UMKC Gallery of Art.

*Catherine Angel is the head of photography at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work range’s from 8"x10" contact prints to 4'x6' mixed media collage works. Her work has always been self-reflective, powerful and challenging in content. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago and the Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. She will be looking to recruit new graduate students for the University of Nevada. She would like to see work that is powerful and has a direction.

*Wendy Babcox. Emphasis in photography, Babcox’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work in photography and video has traveled to exhibitions in Khabarovsk Russia, Waikato in New Zealand, Galeria Corriente Alterna in Lima Peru, Instituto de Artes de Medellin in Medellin Columbia, and Bordas Casa de Cultura, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Tasco in Mexico among other places. Her work is held in private and public collections both here in the US and abroad. She would like to review the work of students who are hoping to apply to graduate school since she is recruiting for the University of South Florida graduate program.

*Tulu Bayar, photo-based multimedia artist, received an MFA from the University of Cincinnati. She has exhibited at national and international venues including museums, university spaces and galleries. She also has held artist residencies in numerous national and international locations. Bayar teaches photography and multimedia courses at Bucknell University as an Assistant Professor. She is interested in reviewing conceptually challenging photo-based work for her curatorial project from the professionals. She is also interested in looking at all kinds of student work for the two-year photography internship position at Bucknell University.

Walter Bodle is the founder of Youth in Focus, a nationally recognized youth photography program serving disadvantaged youth. He has taught photography to youth and adults, and has promoted his own fine art work. He is active with Blue Earth Alliance supporting photographers concentrating on environmental and social issues. He would like to review documentary work or artistic photographic or mixed media work being in the direction of narrative, abstract or of a generally confusing nature.

Michelle Bogre, Chairperson of the Photography Department at Parsons School of Design in New York City is a photographer, writer, critic and recent law school graduate, specializing in intellectual property issues. As a photographer, Ms. Bogre worked as a photojournalist for major newspapers and news magazines and as a corporate editorial photographer with a client list that included Kodak, DuPont and IBM. She also was a contributing editor for American Photo magazine. She is interested in seeing almost any kind of work. As an educator I am always interested in advising students and young professionals

Gary S. Colby teaches photography and serves as Director of the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography at the University of La Verne in La Verne, California. Emerging from a background in photojournalism, Gary's work today includes a continuing silver-print group photographic series, Retinue, and a digital two-dimensional project, flat things. Gary will be representing the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography and the Harris Art Gallery on the campus of the University of La Verne. Each of these galleries is reviewing work for exhibition in the 2004-2005 academic year. The Carlson Gallery specifically seeks flat art, photographically inspired, traditionally or digitally derived.

James D. Colby, director of the Community Cultural Center/Weeks Gallery, Jamestown, New York is a curator, educator, artist, and former SPE northeast region chair. He is accepting applications for solo exhibitions by established artists working within the broad spectrum of photo based art – preferring strong portfolios or projects that are interdisciplinary and accessible to diverse populations.

*Colette Copeland, a multi-media installation artist received a BFA from Pratt Institute and a MFA from Syracuse University. She teaches photography, critical theory and photographic criticism at the University of the Arts and University of Pennsylvania. She has participated in numerous exhibits over the past year. Ms. Copeland also writes for the publications, 'The Photo Review' and 'Fotophile'. In addition to her other activities, Ms. Copeland is the chair of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society for Photographic Education. Her work can be viewed at www.inliquid.com. She would like to look at students who are interested in having their work published in Fotophile Magazine. They do a student spread in every issue. Any type of photography is fine--except commercial and fashion.

Rick Dingus, Professor of Photography at Texas Tech University, has exhibited and lectured nationwide, has prints in numerous collections, and has worked on survey projects that include The Rephotographic Survey Project," "Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art," "Dinet'tah_Hajiinei: Place of Emergence," and the "Millennial Collection." He is interested in looking at professional work to consider for exhibitions at Texas Tech and at student work, especially those considering graduate school at Texas Tech.

Susan Dunkerley lives in Waco, Texas, where she currently works as an associate professor, teaching in the department of art at Baylor University. Her photographs of small set-ups have been widely exhibited. She is interested in seeing a variety of work but is particularly interested in seeing experimental/non-traditional/installation work by artists with time-based concerns.

Dennie Eagleson teaches photography at Antioch College in Yellow Springs. Her personal interest in fine art/ documentary has resulted in a project titled “Affinities of Spirit” which is an interview/ photography project about alternative families. She has had extensive experience in Cuba, making pictures, and collaborating with photographers. Her current passion is working with pinhole and plastic lens cameras and printing digitally. She is interested in seeing documentary work, and pinhole and plastic lens images of students and professionals for possible exhibition in the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College.

Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her works have been shown internationally in galleries, museums, and media arts festivals. The original version of her talk appears in the Routledge anthology "Embodied Utopias". She is Assistant Professor of Art at SUNY
Stony Brook where she teaches electronic media. As she teaches electronic media rather than photo, she would enjoy seeing work of that nature and work with a politic to it.

Cass Fey has been Curator of Education at the Center for Creative Photography, located at the University of Arizona, for the past ten years. She mentors students in the fields of photography and museum education and has been an active member of SPE, serving on the Publications Committee from 1998-2002. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Diana Gaston is an Associate Curator at Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA. She is interested in looking at all forms of contemporary work, with particular emphasis on landscape, architectural studies, and domestic imagery.

Judy Gelles is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts Philadelphia in PA. She received an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has published two artist books: When We Were Ten, and Florida, Family, Portrait. She is interested in looking at all types of work for the Sol Mednick Gallery at the University of the Arts.

Richard Gray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Notre Dame. He is interested in reviewing all photo-based projects, including digital and mixed media work for possible one-person or group exhibitions in the Photography Gallery at Notre Dame. Professionals and graduate students only.

Arlene Gottfried teaches photography at York College in New York City. She has done assignments for the New York Times Magazine, Life, Fortune, London Independent, Newsweek and has been published in Doubletake Magazine and The Spirit of Family by Al& Tipper Gore. She has exhibited internationally and has her works in many prestigious collections. Arlene has received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Maine Photographic Workshop Grant. The Eternal Light - Dewi Lewis Publishing November, 1999 is Gottfried's first book. Because of her gospel project she now sings.

Phil Harris was the head of the photography department at Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland from 1991-2001, where he continues to teach as the head of the General Studies department. July 2000 saw the publication of his retrospective book, Fact Fiction Fabrication. To view his work: www.pictureheadpress.com. He is interested in looking at all kinds of work.

**J. Susan Isaacs is an Associate Professor of Art History at Towson University near Baltimore where she teaches courses on contemporary art, especially concentrating on issues of race and gender. She also teaches the History of Photography course there. In addition, she is the adjunct curator for the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Delaware where she is responsible for nearly 30 shows per year in a facility of 33,000 square feet with 8,000 of them devoted to gallery space. She is interested in looking for work for shows at the DCCA where she is the curator. She is interested in both those using new processes and those who have revived old processes.

**Tom Jimison has been a Professor of Photography at College of Mass Communication in Middle Tennessee State University since 1991. Mr. Jimison is also the curator of the Baldwin Photographic Gallery, which exhibits photographic shows of national stature, and in conjunction with this, he brings exhibiting artists to MTSU to lecture about their work. His professional experience includes serving as a U.S. Army Combat Photographer in Asia and Europe and operating a photographic studio in New Orleans. Throughout his photographic career, he has continued to work on his own personal documentary and fine art images, which have been exhibited widely in both juried competitions and national exhibits and publications.

Lisa Jones is teaching at Appalachian State University and William King Regional Arts Center. She has her BA in photography from Virginia Intermont College and her MFA in photography from East Tennessee State University. She also studied at Clemson University and Winona International School of Professional Photographers. Her personal work has centered around landscape and memory, using color and alternative processes. She is interested in looking at all kinds of work.

Scott Jost is Associate Professor of Art at Bridgewater College in Virginia. He is working on a book of photographs and interviews exploring history and current conditions of the Virginia apple industry and is a project photographer for *The Valley Road: A Landscape of History and Culture, from Indian Road to U.S. 11* (forthcoming, Center for American Places). He is most interested in photography work (chemical or digital, "straight", manipulated, mixed-media and interdisciplinary) that explores landscape, land use, ecology and place, although his interests in photography are broad and he is open to reviewing any type of work.

*Daniel Kariko was born in Yugoslavia in 1976. He received his B.A. from Nicholls State University in Louisiana in 1999 and his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Arizona State University in 2002. Currently he holds an Assistant in Art faculty position at Florida State University School of Art. He would like to review student work, primarily dealing with cultural identity, or any work of undergraduate students interested in pursuing a graduate program.

*Perry Kirk is an Assistant Professor of Photography at State University of West Georgia. For several years Perry Kirk has pursued issues surrounding photography's and society's relationship to science. He recently curated the exhibition Essence: Matter/Science/Photography, which was shown at University of West Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Pace University. Kirk holds an MFA in Photography from University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He would like to view work that utilizes digital and alternative processes, as well as traditional photography.

Mark Klett is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University. He is author of nine books, and has received three NEA Fellowships, the Buhl Foundation Award, a Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship, and others. His work has been show for over twenty years and has been collected by most museums in the US and many abroad. He is hoping to look at the work of colleagues with similar interests or students who might be interested in ASU.

Katharine Kreisher

Scott David Laird
He would like to review photo and video that IS NOT DOCUMENTARY.

Marie-Susanne Langille is an award-winning photojournalist and picture editor. She has a Master's degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri and has worked for newspapers in Utah, Iowa and Indiana as well as the Associated Press in New York. In 1999, she was named Indiana Newspaper Photographer of the Year. She currently teaches photography in the art department of Heartland Community College in Bloomington, Illinois. She is happy to look at anyone's work but students of photojournalism would probably get the most out of her.

James Lerager is the photographer and author of the forthcoming book “Nuclear History—Nuclear Destiny” (University of New Mexico Press, 2004), and “In The Shadow Of The Cloud” (Fulcrum Press, 1988). He has had 25 solo exhibitions of his work, and has published internationally. He is particularly interested in viewing documentary work.

Susan Lipper's published works include: Grapevine, CornerHouse Publications, 1994, trip, Dewi Lewis Publishing/PowerHouse Books, 2000 and Bed and Breakfast, Photoworks, 2000. A new series of diptychs will be exhibited later this year. She earned an MFA from Yale University in 1983 and is interested in viewing extended personal projects particularly those that involve narrative and sequence.

Fern Logan Currently an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University in the Department of Cinema & Photography, Ms. Logan completed her graduate work in Chicago at The School of the Art Institute. Her photography has been shown and published regularly in this country and abroad. Her work has been exhibited twice at The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Most recently her digital imagery has won two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships. In 2001 her work was published by the Southern Illinois University Press in a book of her portraits entitled The Artist Portrait Series. You can also find her work in Black Photographers 1940-1988 by Deborah Willis. She is interested in looking at all kinds of work.

Joan Lyons is the founding Coordinator of the Visual Studies Workshop Press, a leading of artists’ books, and teaches in the M.F.A. Program at Visual Studies Workshop. Her work, ranging from books to digital and photographic media, is grounded in the understanding that photography and print developed simultaneously and, in all their permutations, are inextricably connected. She is interested in looking at all kinds of work.

Gary Metz

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is Assistant Professor of Art (Photography) at the University of Rhode Island. She is interested in looking at a cohesive portfolio of images that have a theme or concept to be considered for the photography gallery at the University of Rhode Island.

*Rebecca Nolan is originally from Southeast Wisconsin. She has an undergraduate degree in communications from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay and a MFA in visual design from the University of Oregon-Eugene. She has taught at the University of Kentucky, Washington University St. Louis, Webster University St. Louis, and she is currently teaching at Savannah College of Art and Design. She would prefer to look at student work, any range of student from beginning to graduate level.

*Janet Pritchard teaches photography at the University of Connecticut. For more than twenty-five years, her work has centered on the land, exploring personal and social histories. Her current work uses traditional and digital tools. In addition to being an active artist and educator, she is raising three sons with her life partner Judith Thorpe. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Jim Ramer is the Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Parsons School of Design, New York City. Professor Ramer teaches courses in both practice and theory. His own photographic and installation work has been widely exhibited and published. He is interested in reviewing both student and professional work.

*Neal Rantoul lives and works in the Boston, Ma. area. He is head of the Photography Program at Northeastern University in Boston and describes himself as being a career artist and teacher. He has work in numerous public collections: among those are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Ma, among others. He also has many grants and awards including a Whiting Foundation Fellowship in 1997 and a residency at Lightwork in Syracuse in 2001. He is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

*Kathleen Robbins is an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. She is willing to look at all student work, but she is particularly interested in the work of students interested in attending graduate school at USC.

*Jan Roddy has been teaching a wide variety of courses to graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale for 16 years. Her work has utilized methods such as: interpretive documentary, digital montage, collaborative community pictorial archive projects and a variety of experimentations with image and text. Jan received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in 1989, have exhibited nationally and have co-authored a book of photographs and oral histories centering on one mid-western town’s civil rights struggle (Let My People Go: Cairo, IL, 1967-1973, Southern Illinois University Press, 1996). She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Karen Schwenkmeyer is a Los Angeles-based photographer and multi-media artist whose work has been exhibited nationally. A founding member of M.A.M.A. (Mother Artists Making Art), her work explores maternal experience within contemporary American culture. She is interested in viewing work that addresses feminist issues or operates as social critique.

*Naomi Shersty is currently a graduate student and teaching assistant at the University of New Mexico. Her work consists of photographic imagery and video, which she often incorporates into installations and performances. She explores the construction of desire and identity through place, memory, and family history. She is interested in viewing a variety of student work, particularly those interested in graduate school.

*Monique Silverman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University where she teaches photography, cultural studies and interactive arts. She has a MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts. Her current photographic project Guest Towels and Plastic Forks examines the durability of attachment and the tension between stability and impermanence. She is also working on a curatorial project on gendered representations in landscape photography. Monique is interested in seeing fine art work by students.

*Stan Strembicki is currently a Professor of Art and Senior Faculty School at the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is area coordinator of photography where he teaches classes on the undergraduate and graduate level in photography. Strembicki has served as secretary, treasurer, and chairman of the MWSPE, has chaired two regional conferences in St. Louis and is currently organizing the 2005 MidWest Regional Conference in St. Louis. He continues to live in St. Louis with his wife of 27 years Rosemary and his 150 lb dog, Bixby. He has a weakness for large displacement German motorcycles, Swedish Cameras and dark Italian chocolate. He would prefer to look at student work, and in particular, students who are preparing for graduate studies and need assistance developing their admission portfolio for any MFA programs, (not WU’s)

Sylvia de Swaan is a photographer, educator and occasional curator. Her personal work deals with identity, war and memorialization. She has been a recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Aaron Siskind Foundation, ArtsLink, Light Work, and others. Visiting Instructor at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. She is interested in looking at innovative approaches to documentary, and personal history.

Mark Taylor has more than 30 years experience as an artist, educator, curator, publisher, pilot, yachtsman, and long haul trucker. He currently directs the photography program at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. He is interested in all traditional approaches in photography.

Anthony Thompson is an Associate Professor of photography and visual studies in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He is open to reviewing student and artist work of all kinds and at any level, particularly work that combines traditional and new media or that seeks to tell a story.

Nick Tobier is an artist, who has morphed into a writer/performer currently teaching at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. The contiguous thread of interest weaving through this all is the sometimes strange and surprising social life of urban spaces. He is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

Andrea Wallace is a photographer and video artist who is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Electronic Media at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO. Wallace has exhibited nationally and internationally with shows in United States, Scotland, Spain, Columbia and Mexico. Wallace’s background as a photojournalist serves as a springboard for much of her work Her research is community based and is informed by issues surrounding the relationship between individuals and the landscape, sense of place, memory and identity. Wallace's work deals with intersections: humans and their environment, women and men, success and failure and the
American dream. Ultimately, she is interested in how we as human beings experience the environment, how we parallel it in our comings and goings, how we define it and are defined by it. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

David Wells, formerly from California and now living in Providence, RI, has been a photographer for more than 20 years. During the early years of his career, he worked as a staff photographer at a variety of small, medium, and large newspapers across the U.S. Since 1986, David has concentrated most of his efforts on in-depth photographic documentaries of subcultures that are frequently plagued by stereotypes. In 1988, he was honored with the NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant, which enabled him to spend the year researching and photographing the issues of pesticide poisoning of farm workers in California. His work has been published in many publications, and shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the world. From July of 1990 to June of 1991, David lived in Israel where he began his in-depth exploration of the relationship between Arabs and Jews. In June of 1991, he received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation enabling him to return to Israel periodically to continue his project. Wells has also received a Visual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. As a documentary photographer, he strives to make photographs that are more than simple pictures. Wells works to make photographs that are powerful enough to move his audience beyond awareness, and towards change. He is interested in looking at all kinds of work.

**Liz Wells has published widely on photography within visual culture and lectures in Media Arts, University of Plymouth, UK. She edited The Photography Reader (2003), Photography, A Critical Introduction (2000; 3rd ed, 2004), and co-edited Shifting Horizons, Women’s Landscape Photography Now ( 2000). Her touring exhibition, Facing East, contemporary landscape photography from Baltic areas, opens April 2004. Liz Wells would particularly like to view photoworks - landscape, or otherwise - relating to environmental issues.