2012 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 9:00am, Seacliff CD

"Re-Generations"

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's recent exhibitions include the Royal Ontario Museum, 2018 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2018 Fotofest Biennial, MFA Boston, RISD Museum and the Smithsonian. Her work was recently featured in the CAA Art Journal. Matthew is... read more

David McLain

Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 4:30pm, Grand Ballroom BC

Industry Seminar: "New Opportunities: When Still Photography and Video Converge"

"Understanding Opportunities for Photographers as Stills and Video Converge: A Case Study"

For years David McLain regularly shot feature-length assignments around the world for National Geographic Magazine. His job was to work with every... read more

Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

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

"The Public and Private Spaces of Village Life in Maramures, Transylvania"

Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin is a mother, photographer, and teaches adjunct at LMU, AAU, and NYFA. Her first book, The Color of Hay: The Peasants of Maramures, was published last year and her work has appeared... read more

Michael McLeod

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom C

"Computer Love"

Michael Max McLeod works in the gap between private desire and public space. Before studying photography at Arizona State University, McLeod worked for RollingStone.com and Playboy. McLeod runs Goodbye Ranch, an outlet through which he... read more

Diane Meyer

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 9:00am, Seacliff AB

"Look at Me! Crafting Identity from the Daguerreotype to the On-line Profile"

Diane Meyer is an Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at venues including Silver Eye Center for Photography and the Griffin Museum of Photography, and exhibited widely... read more

Dr Melissa Miles is a photography historian based at the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Her book, The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008), focuses... read more

Daniel Milnor

Thursday, March 22, 2012 @ 10:30am, Grand Ballroom A

Industry Seminar: "How To Make A Book That Works For You"

Daniel Milnor once worked as both a fragrance model and a hot tub installer but is better known as a reformed-journalist, photographer and writer who is now performing these duties in his role as "Creative... read more

Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish-American photographer. Born in Helsinki in 1945, he immigrated to the United States in 1951. Majoring in English Literature at Wagner College, Minkkinen became an advertising copywriter on Madison... read more

Rebekah Modrak

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

"SUPER PHOTO"

Rebekah Modrak is an artist and lead author of the book Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice and its companion website, which reconsiders photography by integrating theory and practice. Her artworks, presented on eBay or the... read more

Bruce Myren

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 9:00am, Bayview Room

"Where Are We Now? Google Maps, GPS, and GeoTags in the Landscape"

Myren holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and an MFA from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Exhibited nationally and published internationally, he received a 2014 Cambridge Arts Council Grant. His project... read more

Yaro Shon Neils

Friday, March 23, 2012 @ 2:40pm, Seacliff AB

"Acts of Love: Mixed and Multimedia Inquiries"

Yaro Shon Neils was born on an old brass bed in her grandmother's cabin, the literal and metaphorical return to which serves as the crux of her art-making. She earned degrees in photography and... read more

Richard Newman

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

Industry Seminar: "Video Boot Camp"

"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