Society for Photographic Education
44th National Conference in Miami

Portfolio Reviewer Biographies & Preferences

Friday, March 16, 2007: Professional Portfolio Sessions, reserved for professionals
Saturday, March 17, 2007: Student Portfolio Critiques dedicated to students

[Professional status is determined by membership level. All levels of membership are considered professional, except student. Participation in professional activities will require membership and conference registration beyond the student level.]

Portfolio Review Guidelines

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.

* Julie Anand is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Arizona State University. She is particularly excited to talk with students interested in the graduate program at ASU.

George Blakely is an award winning teacher and Professor of Art at Florida State University since 1978. He is interested in reviewing student portfolios that are looking for grad schools and also is reviewing work for an exhibition surrounding the topic of food.

* Leslee Broersma is interested in reviewing work in photography, video and New Media. She currently teaches in the Electronic Media Arts Design program at the University of Denver.

** Gary S. Colby is a Professor of Photography at the University of La Verne, and serves as Gallery Director for the Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography. The Carlson Gallery exhibits flat art, photographically inspired, traditionally or digitally derived. On behalf of the Carlson Gallery, the Harris Gallery and the Tall Wall Space, Gary is reviewing work for exhibitions in the 2007-2008 academic year.

** James D. Colby, director of the Weeks Gallery and Museum Without Walls at JCC, Jamestown, New York, is a curator, educator, and artist. The Weeks Gallery is accepting applications for solo and group exhibitions by emerging and established artists working within the broad spectrum of photography. We are interested in reviewing developed portfolios that are interdisciplinary, global, and relevant to diverse audiences. We are also interested in traditional framed photographs for the Weeks Gallery's Global Collection of Photography.

* Ben Colman has been a professional photographer since 1987 and an ASMP member since 1989. He is currently the ASMP Foundation Vice-President and ASMP National Director. Clients include Apple, GM, Univ. of Michigan, Toyota. Interested in reviewing any style of work.

* Colette Copeland is a multimedia artist who teaches visual studies, art writing and photography at University of Pennsylvania and critical theory and contemporary practices at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Ms. Copeland writes for the photography journal 'Fotophile Magazine', which publishes a page of student work in each issue. She is interested in reviewing student portfolios that have vision and creativity for possible future publication.

** Ellen Curlee opened the Ellen Curlee Gallery in St. Louis in 2005, specializing in Photography and Photography based art. Prior to opening her gallery, she ran Photographic Resources agency for twenty years, which represented over 50 photographers to architects, interior designers, advertising, and graphic design clients. She is interested in looking at all genres of images except journalism and documentary photography.

* Jeff Curto is Coordinator and Professor of Photography at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he has taught since 1984. He is particularly interested in seeing travel/location work and interesting applications of large-format cameras and digitally-based processes, especially in B&W.

Dennie Eagleson is an Associate Professor of Photography at Antioch College. She has been a frequent curator of photographic exhibitions in the Herndon Gallery at Antioch, and is interested in seeing pinhole and plastic lens work and also documentary work in both color and black and white.

** Lynn Estomin is a videographer, photographer and computer artist who has been producing art that speaks to social issues for over twenty-five years. She is interested in reviewing innovative professional work, particularly work that deals with political issues and issues of diversity and tolerance, for possible solo exhibition in the Lycoming College Art Gallery.

** Angela Faris-Belt is a fine art photographer currently serving as instructor at the Art Institute of Colorado and the University of Colorado at Denver, while authoring a textbook with Focal Press.  She is interested in work that consciously employs photographic language. www.angelafaris.com/submissions

* Cinthea Fiss earned her MFA at Cal Arts in 1993 and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 1995-1996. She is currently Co-Coordinator of the Photography Program at Metropolitan State College of Denver.

* Ryan Davis Flathau is the Multimedia Program Coordinator and Instructor in the Department of Arts and Communication at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek Michigan. He has an undergraduate degree in Art Teaching from Western Michigan University and a MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design. His work deals with the American roadside vernacular and the passage of time. www.flathau.com

** Harris Fogel is an Associate Professor of Photography, Director of the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401, and Coordinator of Photography in the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is reviewing work for possible exhibitions and would prefer to view work that is fully realized and ready for exhibition. 

Christine Frisinghelli is a curator and editor; she is director of CAMERA AUSTRIA exhibition projects and editor in chief of Camera Austria magazine, based in Graz, Austria. She is interested in documentary and conceptual works with photography.

* Elizabeth Greenberg is the Director of Photography programs at The Maine Photographic Workshops and Rockport College.  She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

* Myra Greene is currently an Assistant Professor of Photographic Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Many of her projects include photography, printmaking, and sound, as well digital production work.  She melds these processes into exploring issues about the body, memory and the absorption of culture and the shifting identity of African Americans.  She is interested in both works that explores the metaphorical meaning of the body and/or explores the shifting definition of photography in this new digital age. 

* Marita Gootee is a Professor of Art at Mississippi State University. She is interested in alternative processes and non-digital imagery and will give guidance on portfolio organization and presentation.

* Siegfried Halus has thirty years of teaching photography at numerous universities and colleges including Tufts University and the Boston Museum School, the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and he is currently Director of Fine Arts at Santa Fe Community College. His work is widely published and is collected in major international and national museums and private collections.

* Peter HappelChristian is a nationally recognized artist and an Assistant Professor of Photography at Youngstown State University in Ohio. He is interested in viewing conceptually driven, cross-disciplinary work.

* Jessica Todd Harper loves to see all kinds of work.  One of PDN's 30 for 2005, Jessica is represented by Cohen Amador Gallery in New York and is a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College.

* Rachel Hawthorn is an MFA candidate at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her particular interests lie in the realm of how memory is shaped by domestic spaces. She is interested in looking at student work at any stage of undergraduate study.

* Chuck Hemard teaches at Columbus State University in Georgia. He is interested in viewing work showing unique ways of seeing the ordinary.

* Jerry Holsopple is Professor of Visual and Communication Arts at Eastern Mennonite University.  Jerry is interested in alternate forms of portraiture (panoramic), documentary, work incorporating multiple time frames and digital manipulation.

** Barbara Houghton, Professor of Art, Northern Kentucky University near Cincinnati, teaching digital and traditional photography and web design for artists. I combine installation, digital images and projected video. Looking for work made while traveling or coming from ideas about travel for a potential exhibition at NKU. 

** Nancy Howell-Koehler is author of photo art education books and is currently an independent curator. Most recent photo exhibitions include: “Women in Documentary Photography, 2000” and “Out of the Darkroom”, 2005. She is interested in documentary photos as well as digital art.

* Mark E. Jensen is a photographer at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. He is a fine artist and documentary photographer, educator, and independent curator. He is also the director of the Knife River Photography Workshops.  He is interested in traditional photography, digital, and/or new media.

** Tom Jimison is the Curator of the Baldwin Photographic Gallery and Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. As Curator of the Baldwin Photographic Gallery, Mr. Jimison annually brings in five exhibits and lectures of national stature, plus an invitational student show. The Gallery is two hundred running feet, which would require an exhibit in the fifty+ prints or larger range to fill.  His main interest is viewing completed or near completed bodies of work for possible future exhibits.

* Jonathan Johnson is a Public Affairs Officer and photographer for the Army National Guard and an MFA candidate and instructor of photography at the University of Iowa.  He is interested in seeing all types of work, especially new approaches to documentary photography and anything experimental.

* Scott Jost is an Associate Professor of Art at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia is especially interested in photography related to land use and ecology but enjoys reviewing all types of work.

* Darlene Kaczmarczyk heads the Photography Department at Kendall College of Art and Design and is actively seeking applicants for their dynamic MFA program.

* Daniel Kariko Received his MFA from Arizona State University. He is an Associate in the Florida State University Art Department, where he teaches Photography. He is interested in seeing portfolios of students looking for Graduate Programs in photography.

* Mark Klett photographs the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time. He is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He will look at any type of work, and is interested in meeting prospective graduate students.
**Alan Klotz is the owner and Director of Alan Klotz Gallery in New York, now in its 31st year.  He has taught history and criticism of photography for 27 years mostly at the graduate level, and holds an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY.

* Allyson Klutenkamper is an artist and head of photography at Shawnee State University.  Her work is rooted in psychoanalysis and semiotics as an aid to reveal narrative events in a single frame.  She would like to see any serious student work.

* Dan Larkin teaches in the BFA & MFA programs at RIT. He is interested in photographically derived work that uses color and light to describe and illuminate content in a significant way.

* Susan Lipper is an artist based in New York. Her published monographs include: Grapevine, trip and Bed and Breakfast. Not Yet Titled, a series of diptychs, mounted on aluminum, was completed in 2005. She earned an MFA in photography from Yale University in 1983 and is interested in viewing extended personal projects particularly those that involve narrative and sequence or work both within and against documentary formats. She is not interested in Holga work.

* Tracy Longley-Cook will be completing her MFA in photography at Arizona State University this spring.  She would like to review undergraduate portfolios, and meet with those interested in applying to graduate school.

** Mary Ann Lynch is an independent photographer, writer, publisher, and curator. Sr. Ed. Camera Arts; Director, Not for Profit Photography Network: Photographers Seeking Social Change; Ed/pub Combinations Press.  Would like to see non-commercial work; long-term projects; Diana Camera and other pre-Holga low-tech plastic camera photography.  

* Mark Malloy is Assistant Professor of Photography at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and is SPE’s Southeast Regional Chair. Mark is also is also the husband of award-winning photojournalist Heather McClintock.

* John Mann is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Florida State University.  His nationally exhibited work is currently exploring the use of image juxtaposition and the subsequent creation of context.   He is interested in looking at all styles of photography, particularly from those who are thinking about graduate studies in the future. 

* Karen Marshall documents social issues. For the past twenty years she has worked on a series of long-term projects that focus on the social and psychological lives of her subjects through the American landscape. Marshall is on the faculty of the International Center for Photography in NYC. She is interested in all types of work, though is most interested in narrative photography.

** Kevin Miller is the Director of the Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach Community College.

Chuck Mobley is Associate Director in charge of exhibitions and publications at San Francisco Camerawork. www.sfcamerawork.org

Richard Newman has been a photographer and printer for more than 25 years.  With 55 exhibitions to his credit, Richard's portfolio is dynamic in its diversity of subjects.  For the past 14 years he has worked for Calumet Photographic as the National Education Coordinator.

Kenda North is a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.  She has exhibited her work in color photography nationally and internationally since completing her MFA at the Visual Studies Workshop in the late 70’s.   Her current photographs are underwater, staged images of figures and still life constructions, seen as large-scale digital prints. She is interested in contemporary ideas, figurative work and color and can be of assistance in mentoring for academic positions or graduate school.

* Brent Phelps is a Professor at University of North Texas. He received his MFA at Arizona State in 1973. He had a NEA Fellowship 1980 and his work is widely exhibited. 

* Janet Pritchard, Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging, teaches at the University of Connecticut. For more than twenty-five years, her work has centered on notions of place, exploring the intersection of personal and social issues. Her current work, views the landscape of Connecticut through the veil of history. In addition to being an active artist and educator, she is raising three sons with her life partner Judith Thorpe.

Neal Rantoul is a career artist and teacher. He has taught photography for thirty years. He is currently head of the Photography Program at Northeastern University and taught for thirteen years at Harvard University as well as at the New England School of Photography. A new book of his photographs is available now called “American Series”. His work can be seen at: www.NealRantoul.com

** Mary Anne Redding is an independent curator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is currently the Southwest regional chair for the Society for Photographic Education. She is interested in looking at emerging and established artists working in any genre.

* E. Brady Robinson’s installation, digital and photography work has been exhibited nationally, including the Aspen Art Museum, Florida State Art Museum and Corcoran Gallery of Art. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art in the MFA in Studio Art and Computer Department at University of Central Florida, Orlando. www.gobrady.com

* Wendy Roussin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She is interested in reviewing student work at all levels with an interest in bodies of work and the natural environment.

* John Scarlata. Professor of Photography at Appalachian State University in Boone NC, Most recent work is large format color in Cuba. Visiting artist in New Zealand for 8 months in 04/05. Interested in all types of work fine art and professional.

* Betsy Schneider is a photo based artist and is a member of the photography faculty at Arizona State University and a new member of the SPE National Board. She is happy to give advice about graduate school, applying for teaching jobs and finding exhibition opportunities.

Ariel Shanberg is the Executive Director at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Founded in 1977 to provide a home for contemporary photography and related media, CPW offers opportunities in exhibition, publication, residencies, workshops, internships, and more. He is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

* Christine Shank is an artist dealing working predominantly with the photographic image. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography and Video at Washington University in St Louis.  Shank’s photographic and installation artwork has been widely exhibited throughout the United States. Most recently she has exhibited at The Houston Center for Photography, Harnett Gallery In Rochester, NY and will be showing at the Firehouse Gallery in VT. She has lectured and taught workshops at a variety of venues such as: The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, The Anchorage Museum of Art and Art History and Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.

* Naomi Shersty is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her multimedia work explores memory, identity, desire, and place. She prefers to review work by students considering graduate school.

* Michael Sherwin received his BFA in photography from The Ohio State University, and his MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon. Currently, Michael is employed as a Visiting Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.  He is flexible on the style/genre of work he’s interested in seeing, but landscape based or conceptual work might be best.

* Marni Shindelman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. Her work incorporates hypertext and stories of infamous zoo animals, with images of collectibles located in sculptural scenes. She is interested in work dealing with urban legends, myth, the Internet, repetition, vernacular objects, bodies, gender, and animals.

Steve Simmons is the Founder and Publisher of View Camera magazine. He has been a large format photographer for 30 years and taught many workshops on view camera photogrpahy all over the country. He is only interested in reviewing work created with a 4x5 or larger view camera.

** George Slade has been the Artistic Director of the Minnesota Center for Photography since August 2003, after serving as a curator, editor, writer, and advisor to the organization since 1992. He would like to meet artists with well-developed projects who are interested in being considered for exhibition at MCP.

* Jane Alden Stevens is a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati. She is interested in reviewing all kinds of work.

* Senseney Lea Stokes is a multimedia artist and educator living in the Pacific Northwest. She is currently a Photography Instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Senseney prefers to review work by students considering graduate school. 

* Stan Strembicki is professor of Art at the College of Art, Washington University in St. Louis. He has directed the photography program there for 23 years. He is reviewing the work of students who need help building portfolios for graduate admission at WU or other institutions.

Andrew L. Strout is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He is especially interested in work by underrepresented groups as well as images that break boundaries or have cultural/social significance to them. Work by students who are looking for a graduate program will also be welcomed.

* Eric Eujea Sung is full-time faculty at the Southeastern Louisiana University. In his work, he addresses questions about personal experience such as his multicultural identity and family structure.

* Brian Ulrich teaches photography at the School of the Art Institute and Columbia College in Chicago. He has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Julie Saul Gallery, Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Robert Koch Gallery. He is a frequent contributor to Adbusters Magazine. He is looking to review fine art, social, and documentary photography projects.

** Ricardo Viera has been Director/Curator of the Lehigh University Art Galleries/Museum Operation and Professor of Art at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. from 1974 to present. Viera is the curator for Viajeros: North American Artist / Photographers' Images of Cuba, at Miami Dade during the conference.

* Pat Ward Williams teaches photography at Florida State University.  She teaches photojournalism as well as alternative photo processes and display.  She is interested in reviewing all types of photo-based work especially work with a political or social content.

* Bruce West is a professor in the Department of Art and Design at Missouri State University. He is interested in student work that is honest, sincere, and heartfelt.

* Heather F. Wetzel is a professor at Edinboro University of PA, co-founder of the laboratorium, and the founder of the Historic Photographic Process Initiative at VSW in Rochester NY where she teaches graduate courses. Wetzel is a mixed media artist working predominantly with wet-plate collodion. She is interested in seeing work that incorporates historic or alternative processes, as well as alternative ways of viewing and displaying work.

Brooke White is Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. She is in charge of the Imaging Arts Program, which includes traditional and digital photographic methodologies and video. Brooke is interested in reviewing work that challenges the boundaries of non-traditional photographic styles, processes and ideas. Brooke’s own work investigates the ways in which individuals interact and relate to the landscape amidst our addiction to technology.

* Vagner M. Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of Photography and New Media at Oakland University. He works with photography, video, performance, installation, hypermedia and digital imaging, and would like to review non-traditional portfolios of both undergraduate and graduate students. 

Manfred Willmann is a photographer and Founder/Publisher of CAMERA AUSTRIA International magazine. He prefers to see contemporary conceptual and documentary photography.

* M. Laine Wyatt is a photographer / mixed-media artist and an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Central Florida. She is interested in reviewing student portfolios that are more conceptual in nature and especially feminist work.