2012 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Bill Adams

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 11:00am, Seacliff CD

"One Man Show"

Bill Adams received a BA from Princeton University, and an MA and MFA from The University of New Mexico. His work was recently included in Exploring Color Photography, Light and Lens: Photography in the... read more

Driven by increasingly accessible self-publishing technology and a new cultural focus on auteurship, more photobooks are being published today than ever before. Outside photography, we have seen an explosion in books of another kind: e-books.... read more

Claude Baillargeon

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 3:00pm, Grand Ballroom C

"Classified Casualties and Exposed Trauma: The Photographic Portrayal of Hibakusha"

Claude Baillargeon, PhD, MFA, is associate professor of art history at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His most recent curatorial projects include Shadows of the Invisible (2014), Revolutionizing Cultural Identity (2008), and Imaging a Shattering Earth... read more

Michael Bain

Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 3:00pm, Grand Ballroom BC

Industry Seminar: "Snapshot of the Industry: A Panel Discussion of the Current and Future Status of Film Based Photographic Materials by the Most Qualified Experts"

Michael Bain is the U.S. Marketing and Business Development Manager for Harman Technology. Harman Technology is the manufacturer of Ilford Photo and Kentmere Photographic black and white products as well as Harman Inkjet products.... read more

Angela Faris Belt

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:00pm, Seacliff CD

"Pedagogy Now: Teaching Teachers to Teach"

Angela Faris Belt is an artist, author and educator, all of whose work centers on photographic language. Professor of Photography at the Art Institute of Colorado, she is a lead faculty mentor and student teacher... read more

Michelle Bogre

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 10:00am, Grand Ballroom A

"Copyright 2012 Update: Fair Use and Photography, What You Need to Know"

Michelle Bogre, currently an Associate Professor of Photography at Parsons The New School for Design, has been a photographic educator for 20 years. She is also a documentary photographer, copyright lawyer and author who... read more

Jennifer Brandon

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom C

"Cast-offs"

Jennifer Brandon received her MFA at Mills College in 2007, an MA in 2005 and BA in 2004 in Art with an emphasis in painting at California State University, Northridge. Brandon has been included in... read more

Since growing up in front of a cathode ray tube and first logging on to the ARPNET in 1972, much of Michael Brodsky's art has addressed the transmission of image, text, data, and self. He... read more

Ellie Brown

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 10:00am, Seacliff AB

"BAG: What's Inside"

Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in Media Arts in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University... read more

Formerly the director of the Visual Studies Workshop (2001-2007), Chris Burnett is Chairperson at the Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo. His photographs and digital works have been exhibited widely. In... read more

Susan Carr

Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 1:30pm, Grand Ballroom A

Industry Seminar: "What Every Artist Should Know About Copyright and Releases"

Susan Carr is a Chicago-based photographer and has been in business for over twenty years. Her photographs are included in corporate and private collections, most notably the Pfizer Corporation and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.... read more

Shannon Castleman

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 2:00pm, Bayview Room

"Traversing the Void: Synchronized Community Projects"

Shannon Castleman is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She received her BFA in photography from NYU and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in... read more