2009 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Katy McCormick

Friday, March 27, 2009 @ 1:00pm, Venetian Room

"Photobook as Pedagogical Space"

Katy McCormick, MFA, is associate professor and graduate program director of the MFA in documentary media at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Her most recent projects focus on narratives of the... read more

Bill McDowell is chair of the Department of Art and Art
History at the University of Vermont. He is the recipient of the
Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship, the New
York Foundation for the Arts... read more

Osamu James Nakagawa

Friday, March 27, 2009 @ 10:00am, Oak Room

"Banta (Cliff)"

Saturday, March 28, 2009 @ 1:00pm, Venetian Room

"A New Way to Get the Shot: Recognizing the Growing Use of Multiple Photographs to Create New Depict

Osamu James Nakagawa received a MFA from the University of Houston, and currently he is an associate professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim fellowship and 2010 Higashikawa... read more

Richard Newman

Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 1:30pm, Gold Room

"The Emerging Digital View Camera"

"Video Boot Camp"

Richard Newman has been in three areas of media production for the last three decades: music, still photography and videography. He started with a career in the music industry and was... read more

Gene Nocon

Thursday, March 26, 2009 @ 3:00pm, Parisian Room

"The Darkroom in the Digital World"

Gene Nocon, FRPS (Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society), helped found the Distinction Panel for Photographic Printers. Ilford Printer of the Year, inventor of the NOCON Photographic Printer,
author of Photographic Printing, television presenter for... read more

Rebecca Nolan is currently the Chair of the Photography Department at Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. She has also taught at Washington University, St. Louis; and the University of Kentucky. Her work... read more

Andrew O'Brien is from southern Maryland. He received his
BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
His artwork has been exhibited nationally and he has won
numerous grants and awards. Currently... read more

John Pfahl

After studying art and photography at Syracuse University (BFA 1961, MA 1968), John Pfahl spent his teaching career at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He took an early retirement in 1985 to devote his... read more

Sheila Pinkel is a professor in the Art and Art History Department,
Pomona College, Claremont, California. Most recently
she organized and participated in an international exhibition and
symposium entitled In Transition Cyprus 2006 and In... read more

Jason Reblando (b. 1973, Flushing, NY) received a BA in
sociology from Boston College and is completing his MFA in
photography at Columbia College Chicago. He is a recipient of
an Illinois Arts Council Artist... read more

Tyler Robbins is an MFA candidate currently studying at University
of Wisconsin, Madison. Beyond photography, he enjoys
cookouts, cycling, cold beer, gardening and spending time in his
backyard with his family. read more

Gregory Scott earned his BFA in visual communications from
the Institute of Design. After a successful career as a creative
director he returned to school to earn his MFA in photography
from Indiana University. His... read more