2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
morning
8:00AM - 10:00AM
Atlanta 3
Final Student Volunteer Training
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Augusta Room
Student Seminar: "A Life in Art: The Realities and the Economy"
With Susan kae Grant and Mary Virginia Swanson, Moderated by Dennis Keeley
9:30AM - 6:30PM
Georgia Registration
Registration
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Georgia Prefunction Foyer Area
Informal Portfolio Sharing
10:30AM - 11:45AM
Capitol Center
Industry Seminar: "How To Make A Book That Works For You"
10:30AM - 11:45AM
Capitol South
Industry Seminar: "Celebrating and Supporting the Arts through Photography"
with Brian Smith, Sponsored by Sony Electronics
8:00AM - 4:00PM
Georgia Registration
Registration
8:00AM - 8:45AM
Augusta
Women's Caucus Meeting
8:30AM - 4:00PM
Georgia Exhibits Hall
Exhibits Fair, Silent Auction & Raffle Items on View, and SPE Store
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Savannah 1
Student Portfolio Critique Check-In
9:00AM - 4:00PM
Augusta
SPE Oral History Project
9:00AM - 3:45PM
Atlanta 3
Film Festival
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Savannah Rooms 2 & 3
Student Portfolio Critiques
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Capitol Center
"What Students Want, What They Expect and What They Need from Their Education"
9:00AM - 10:45AM
Atlanta 1&2
"Classroom 2.0: Using Social Media"
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Athens
Adobe Demo Session: "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tips for Success"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Capitol North
"700 Million Miles an Hour and Other Phenomena"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Capitol South
"Unmarked"
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Atlanta 4&5
"Creating a Coherent Curriculum"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Capitol North
"Hilltop High"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Capitol South
"Palimpsests: Muse as Directed"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Atlanta 4&5
"A Look Between Science and Poiēsis: Phenomenology as a Philosophy of Contemporary Photographic
11:00AM - 11:45PM
Capitol North
Midwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Macon
Northwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Atlanta 4&5
South Central Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Athens
Southwest Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Capitol Center
Southeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Augusta
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Capitol South
Northeast Regional Meeting
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Atlanta 1&2
West Regional Meeting
11:45AM - 2:00PM
Georgia Exhibits Hall
Lunch with the Exhibitors
11:45AM - 2:00PM
Lunch Break
8:00AM - 2:00PM
Georgia Registration
Registration
8:00AM - 9:30AM
Atlanta 1&2
Industry & Education Forum
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Savannah 1
Professional Portfolio Session Check-In
9:00AM - 3:30PM
Savannah Rooms 2 & 3
Professional Portfolio Sessions
9:00AM - 2:45PM
Atlanta 3
Film Festival
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Augusta
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
9:30AM - 4:30PM
Georgia Exhibits Hall
Exhibits Fair, Silent Auction & Raffle Items on View, and SPE Store
9:30AM - 3:00PM
Valdosta
SPE Oral History Project
10:00AM - 11:45AM
Capitol Center
"Inarticulate Speech of the Chart: Investigating the Scientific Concept in Photography"
10:00AM - 11:45AM
Atlanta 1&2
"Now What? Breaking into Teaching After Graduate School"
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Athens
Adobe Demo Session: "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Image Importing and Management"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Capitol North
"Experiments in Wonder"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Capitol South
"The Mustard Gas Phantasies of Wilfred Owen-A Photo Opera"
10:00AM - 10:45AM
Atlanta 4&5
"Tools for Teaching Digital Negatives with Alternative Processes"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Capitol North
"From All Sides"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Capitol South
"On the Orders of the Photographic Sublime"
11:00AM - 11:45AM
Atlanta 4&5
"The Uncanny Imagination"
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Augusta
SPE Members Meeting/New Member Orientation
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Lunch Break
9:30AM - 12:30PM
Georgia Pre-Function Foyer Area
Informal Portfolio Sharing
afternoon
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Capitol North
Student Volunteer Training
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Capitol Center
Industry Seminar: "What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Copyright"
12:00PM - 1:15PM
Capitol North
Industry Seminar: "Digital Color Management in Contemporary Photography,"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Capitol Center
Industry Seminar: "Make dpBestflow.org Your Digital Imaging Resource"
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Capitol South
Industry Seminar: "A Counterculture of Images"
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Capitol Center
Industry Seminar: "Breaking into the Biz"
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Capitol South
Industry Seminar: "HDSLR-The Convergence of Still and Video"
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Valdosta
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Augusta
Women's Caucus Meeting
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Capitol Center
Industry Seminar: "What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Releases"
4:30PM - 5:45PM
Capitol South
Industry Seminar: "Digital Photography Tips & Tricks"
with Phil MIstry, sponsored by American Photo & Popular Photographer
2:00PM - 3:45PM
Capitol Center
"Contemporary Photography: Still & Moving"
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Athens
Adobe Demo Session: "Photoshop CS5- Pushing Creative Boundaries"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Capitol North
"Can I Still Call Myself a Photographer?"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Capitol South
"Curator's Roundtable - Contextualizing the Image"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Atlanta 1&2
"Utopic, Our Artificial Relationship with Nature"
Garry B Frtiz Imagemaker Award
2:00PM - 2:20PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Visiting the Past"
2:25PM - 2:45PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Slow & Steady"
2:50PM - 3:10PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Heavenly Bodies"
3:00PM - 4:45PM
Atlanta 1&2
"In the Second Life of Avatars and Photographic Education"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Capitol North
"Passage"
3:00PM - 3:45PM
Capitol South
"Future Perfect: Photographs, Drawings, & Timelines"
3:15PM - 3:35PM
Atlanta 4&5
"I Can Hear You Humming"
3:40PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Vote, Photographs by Michael Mergen"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Capitol Center
"Science as Muse"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Capitol South
"Photography as Medium for Co-Evolutionary Animal-Human Conversations"
4:00PM - 4:45PM
Capitol North
"Evolution of a Photographic /Poetry Book Collaboration: Bea and Grace Nettles"
4:05PM - 4:25PM
Atlanta 4&5
"A Life Reviewed: George Eastman Through the Viewfinder"
4:30PM - 4:50PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Alehovshchina: Two Sisters"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Capitol North
"Reinvesting Collective Creativity and the Collaborative Community"
1:00PM - 2:45PM
Atlanta 4&5
"Why Are You Teaching That? The Importance of Publishing Contemporary Photography Education Research
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Athens
Adobe Demo Session: "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Develop and Deliver your Photos"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Capitol Center
"Phone Artistry: Camera and Digital Lab in Your Pocket"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Capitol South
"Scripted Rhymes"
1:00PM - 1:45PM
Atlanta 1&2
"Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Capitol Center
"Vesna Pavlovic: Anthropological Studies"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Atlanta 1&2
"3 Weeks, 6 Earthworks, 1 Portable Studio, and ALL that Lies In Between"
2:00PM - 2:45PM
Capitol South
"Art as Side Effect"
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Georgia Exhibits Hall
Silent Auction and Raffle
evening
9:00PM - 11:00PM
Capitol North
Student Volunteer Training
5:45PM - 6:30PM
Dinner Break
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Keynote Presentation: Abelardo Morell
8:30PM - 10:00PM
Garden Courtyard Pool Area
Welcome Reception
10:00PM - 12:00AM
Georgia Prefunction Foyer Area
Late-Night Informal Portfolio Sharing
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Featured Speaker: Catherine Wagner
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Honored Educator: Joyce Neimanas
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Dinner Break
8:00PM - 10:30PM
Georgia Prefunction Foyer Area
Curator Portfolio Walk Through
10:00PM - 12:00AM
Atlanta 3
Film Festival Highlights
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Featured Speaker: Carolyn Guertin
5:30PM - 7:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Awards Presentation
Presentation honoring SPE's 2011 Award winners
7:00PM - 10:30PM
departing from hotel's International Blvd. exit
Bus Trip: SCAD Atlanta and the Cartier-Bresson Exhibit at the High Museum of Art
7:00PM - 10:00PM
Dinner Break
10:00PM - 12:00AM
Atlanta 1&2
Film Festival Highlights
10:30PM - 1:30AM
Capitol Ballroom
Dance party
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