2013 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

John Aasp

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 4:00pm, Red Lacquer

John Aasp: "Shutters Open: The Gesture of Photography"

John Aäsp is currently Visual Arts Director at Rockport Center for the Arts on the Texas Gulf Coast where he also serves as Managing Director of the Rockport Film Festival, and is a contributor to... read more

Adam Abel

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 11:40am, Honore Ballroom

Adam Abel: "Palestine Interrupted"

Adam Abel is a New York based artist working with photography, video and film. In 2011, he spent four months in Palestine, fueling both his installation work and his documentary film, "Qalqilya". This story is... read more

David Emitt Adams

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 1:00pm, State Ballroom

David Emitt Adams: "Conversations with History"

David Emitt Adams is an emerging artist based in Tempe, Arizona. Adams has given artist lectures at The San Francisco Art Institute sponsored by the PhotoAlliance and The Carnegie Museum of Art as part of... read more

Julia Bradshaw

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 1:00pm, Red Lacquer

Julia Bradshaw: "Inflection Points: Photography and the Post-Medium Condition"

British-born Bradshaw initially studied photography with Michael Jochum as part of 'Projekt Fotografie' in Munich, Germany. She holds an MFA in photography from San José State University and has written reviews and articles for Exposure... read more

Jennifer Brandon

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 2:00pm, State Ballroom

Kim Snyder with Jennifer Brandon & Doug Highland:

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

Leslie K. Brown

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 2:00pm, Exhibits Hall Room

Leslie K. Brown: "A Field Guide to the Kodak Picture Spot"

Leslie K. Brown is an independent curator and educator pursuing her PhD in photohistory at Boston University. A former curator at the Photographic Resource Center, she holds an MA from the University of Texas at... read more

Tricia Buchhorn

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 3:00pm, Red Lacquer

Tricia Buchhorn with Libby Rowe & H. Jennings Sheffield:

Tricia Buchhorn holds a Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Documentary Photography from Academy of Art in San Francisco and a Bachelor of Arts in Photojournalism from the University of Texas at Arlington.... read more

River Bullock is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History and the Center for Visual Cultures at University Wisconsin-Madison, where she pursues interests in queer studies, decolonial theory, and the history of photography. read more

Coriana Close

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 1:00pm, Empire Room

Coriana Close with River Bullock, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Cat Marino:

Coriana Close is Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Memphis. She has a BA in Cinema Studies with Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College, and an MFA in Photography from the University... read more

Jamianessa Davis is an undergraduate student at California State University, Stanislaus, completing her senior year of study in art history. Her research interests include contemporary art, queer theory, feminism, and mixed media artwork. Davis is... read more

Doug Dertinger

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 9:00am, State Ballroom

Nigel Poor with Doug Dertinger: "Photography at San Quentin Prison"

Doug Dertinger lives and works in Sacramento, CA where he is an assistant professor of photography at CSU Sacramento and a volunteer instructor at Patterson University's Prison Program at San Quentin State Prison, CA. His... read more

Jess T. Dugan

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 9:00am, Empire Room

David N Martin with Jess T Dugan, Logan Rollins & Rafael Soldi:

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 10:00am, Honore Ballroom

Jess T. Dugan: "Every Breath We Drew"

Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of several major museums. She is represented... read more