2012 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Skott Chandler

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 9:00am, Grand Ballroom A

"House Watch"

Skott Chandler is a photographic artist from Southern Utah. After finishing his MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design, Skott relocated to Denver, Colorado to continue his photographic career as an artist and educator. read more

Peter Happel Christian

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 1:00pm, Seacliff AB

"SUPER PHOTO"

Peter Happel Christian is Assistant Professor of Integrated Media at Saint Cloud State University. Previously, he lived in the American West, which helped shape his perceptions of history, nature, experience and representation. His work investigates... read more

Brooks Dierdorff

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:15pm, Seacliff AB

"Cultural Predators: Photography and its Relationship to Hunting Culture"

Brooks Dierdorff has exhibited his photographs both nationally and internationally at galleries that include the Lorenzo de' Medici gallery in Florence, Italy, the Ulrike Hamm gallery in Hamburg, Germany, and the Salander O'Rielly gallery in... read more

Scott DiSabato

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"

Scott DiSabato is Kodak's U.S. Marketing Manager for Professional film and the U.S. National Sales Manager for imaging specialty channel accounts. Scott worked as a photographer while studying fine art photography, but ultimately earned his... read more

Seán Duggan

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 9:00am, Grand Ballroom B

Adobe Demo Session "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: Image Importing and Management"

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom B

Adobe Demo Session "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: Develop and Deliver your Photos"

Saturday, March 24, 2012 @ 10:00am, Grand Ballroom B

Adobe Demo Session "Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta- Part I"

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

Adobe Demo Session "Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta- Part II"

Seán Duggan is a fine art photographer, author, and educator with extensive experience in both the traditional and digital darkroom. He is a co-author of Real World Digital Photography and The Creative Digital Darkroom and... read more

Adrian R. Duran is Associate Professor of Art History at the Memphis College of Art. Duran has published articles and criticism on Italian Modernism, photography, and Hip Hop in Aspect, Art:21, and Saatchi Online. He... read more

Hasan Elahi

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 3:00pm, Bayview Room

Invited Speaker - Hasan Elahi

Hasan Elahi is Associate Professor of Art at University of Maryland where he is Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College. He is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been presented in... read more

Reed Estabrook

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 5:30pm, Grand Ballroom

2012 Honored Educator Award Presentation

Reed Estabrook is the prodigy of obsessed builder-gardeners. He
entered Rhode Island School of Design to study architecture but
fell in with the wrong crowd: Gowin, Connor, Burke, Parker, etc. He
earned his BFA in... read more

Ashley Feagin

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 1:25pm, Seacliff AB

"Camera And Curtain"

Ashley Feagin explores ways of building stories through photographs, installations, and performance. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Albion College where she developed the course: Sm(Art) Imagery, utilizing the smartphone as a... read more

Alison Ferris is a curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. She has curated over 40 contemporary art exhibitions during the course of her career, among them The Disembodied Spirit (2003), a critically acclaimed... read more

Joshua M Fischer

Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 12:00pm, Grand Ballroom BC

Industry Seminar: "Demystifying Color Management – From Capture to Edit to Print"

"Teaching Color Management for Photo Video"

Joshua M. Fischer is the Product Marketing Manager for ILFORD and X-Rite Video at MAC Group. He will be in charge of developing the product message and positioning... read more

Linda Fleming

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom A

Invited Panel

Linda Fleming's drawings and sculptures create places of shadow and light. Recent installations include: the International Quilt Study Center, Lincoln, Nebraska; the Berkeley Art Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Stanford Museum of Art; and Nevada... read more