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Meet the presenters of SPE’s 2027 Annual Conference! We’re excited to introduce Justin A. Carney, presenting “Those Left Behind: Grief and Family After a Loss.” “Those Left Behind questions what bonds keep a family together and what drives them to separate after the death of a loved one. After my grandmother passed, the center of my family's world, the dynamics of my family shifted. It changed how often people gathered and the ways in which they showed up. Grief reshaped those bonds and connections.” About the Presenter Justin A. Carney (he/they) is a photographic artist and educator whose work explores family history, grief, memory, and inherited identity through portraiture, landscape, archival research, and material experimentation. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Photo London, the Exposure Photography Festival, Candela Gallery, and Aurora PhotoCenter. Carney's work has received recognition through Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 200, the Beckmann Emerging Artist Fellowship, and LenCulture's First Place Single Image Award for the LensCulture Art Photography Awards. Join us at the 2027 SPE Annual Conference to hear Justin explore grief, family, memory, and how photography can create space for vulnerability, remembrance, and connection.