2011 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Kyle Petersen recently completed a two-year stint as visiting assistant professor of photography at Southern Utah University. read more

Walker Pickering teaches at The Art Institute of Austin. read more

Emma Powell

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 4:05pm, Atlanta 4&5

"A Life Reviewed: George Eastman Through the Viewfinder"

Emma Powell is an artist and educator whose work examines photography's history. She received a BA from the College of Wooster and is pursuing her MFA at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her thesis exhibition, A... read more

Grant W. Ray

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 11:00am, Atlanta 4&5

"The Uncanny Imagination"

Grant W. Ray received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and his MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. He has exhibited widely throughout the Midwest. Ray is currently an... read more

Susan R. Ressler

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 4:00pm, Capitol South

"Photography as Medium for Co-Evolutionary Animal-Human Conversations"

Susan R. Ressler is professor emerita, Purdue University, where she taught photography practice, theory, and history from 1981-2004. She received both an MA and MFA in art (photography emphasis) from The University of New Mexico.... read more

Miriam Romais is the executive director of En Foco, Inc., and editor of Nueva Luz photographic journal. En Foco is a nonprofit that supports the creation and dissemination of work by photographers of diverse cultures,... read more

Jacinda Russell

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 1&2

"3 Weeks, 6 Earthworks, 1 Portable Studio, and ALL that Lies In Between"

Jacinda Russell works primarily in the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, and bookmaking. Her artwork has been exhibited at Texas Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Houston Center for Photography, Reed College and the Academy of... read more

Nadia Sablin

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 4:30pm, Atlanta 4&5

"Alehovshchina: Two Sisters"

Nadia Sablin is a photographer, whose work investigates the relationship between documentary and fictional storytelling, exploring the larger world through close personal narratives. Sablin's monograph, Aunties, was published by Duke University Press/Center for Documentary Studies... read more

Christine Shank is an assistant professor of photography at Rochester
Institute of Technology. She is an artist working predominantly with
photography to construct narratives. Most recently her work has been
included in Robert Hirsh¹s latest... read more

Keith Shapiro, associate professor of integrative arts at Penn State, has been a photographer and photographic educator for over twenty-five years. His teaching has focused on the use of innovative technology. He began teaching digital... read more

Michael Sherwin

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 10:00am, Capitol North

"Experiments in Wonder"

Michael Sherwin is an assistant professor of intermedia and photography at West Virginia University. He earned an MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon and a BFA in Photography from The Ohio State University.... read more

Layne Sizemore

Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 9:00am, Capitol Center

"What Students Want, What They Expect and What They Need from Their Education"

Layne Sizemore is a student at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She completed the visual arts program at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2006 and earned her associate's... read more