2013 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

David McLain

Thursday, March 07, 2013 @ 3:00pm, Red Lacquer

Industry Seminar with David McLain, Sponsored by Sony Electronics

"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

Daniel Milnor

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 11:00am, Exhibits Hall Room

Industry Demo Session with Daniel Milnor, Sponsored by Blurb Inc.

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

Richard Misrach

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 5:30pm, Grand Ballroom

Friday Keynote Speaker - Richard Misrach

Sponsored by MAC Group

Richard Misrach, born in 1949 in Los Angeles, is one of the most influential and prolific artists of his generation. In the 1970's, he helped pioneer the renaissance of color... read more

Emily Hanako Momohara

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 4:00pm, Honore Ballroom

Emily Hanako Momohara: "Islands: Isolation, Exoticism and Paradise"

Momohara exhibits internationally including at 21c Museum Hotel, Chongqiang Museum and Japanese American National Museum. She was awarded many artist residencies including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Headlands Center for the Arts and the... read more

Gail Mooney

Thursday, March 07, 2013 @ 1:30pm, State Ballroom

Industry Seminar with Gail Mooney, Sponsored by ASMP

"The Business of Video"

Gail Mooney is a photographer/filmmaker and co-partner of Kelly/Mooney Productions. A lifelong storyteller, Gail began her career as a still photographer. In 1999 Gail began exploring motion and has fully... read more

Zwelethu Mthethwa

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 5:30pm, Grand Ballroom

Saturday Keynote Speaker - Zwelethu Mthethwa

Since Apartheid's fall in 1994 Zwelethu Mthethwa's stunning portraits have powerfully framed black South Africans as dignified and defiant, even under the duress of social and economic hardship. Working in urban and rural industrial landscapes,... read more

Judy Natal

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 2:00pm, Red Lacquer

Judy Natal: "Photography That Thinks, Acts, and Sees: Social Engagement and the Shifting Sands of Contemporary Photographic Practice"

Natal is an interdisciplinary photographic artist, educator, curator, and writer. An archive of her environmentally focused work was established at The Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art in 2012 and her photographs... read more

Richard Newman

Thursday, March 07, 2013 @ 1:30pm, Red Lacquer

Industry Seminar with Richard Newman, Sponsored by Calumet Photographic

"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

Anh-Thuy Nguyen

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

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

Anh-Thuy Nguyen is a multi-media artist, whose work spans from photography, video to performance and sound art. Nguyen's work delves deeply into conflicting emotions, feelings and thoughts through the portrayal of gain and loss. She... read more

Patricia Lois Nuss

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 1:00pm, Empire Room

Ann Kaplan with Katharine Kreisher, Patricia Lois Nuss, Laurie Schorr, Marcia Vaitsman:

Patricia Lois Nuss teaches at Seminole State College of Florida and Brevard Community College. She received her MFA in Studio Art & the Computer and BFA in Studio Art Photography, both at the University of... read more

Jeffrey Opp

Saturday, March 09, 2013 @ 10:50am, Honore Ballroom

Jeffrey Opp: "The Photographic Book as an Instrument for Change"

Opp holds a BFA from Minnesota State University Moorhead and he is an MFA candidate in Photography at San José State University. His work focus on the "Great Recession's" effects on businesses while his books... read more

Kate Palmer Albers

Friday, March 08, 2013 @ 3:00pm, State Ballroom

Kate Palmer Albers: "Abundant Images"

Kate Palmer Albers is assistant professor of Art History at the University of Arizona. In 2009, she organized the exhibition Locating Landscape: New Strategies, New Technologies, which looked at the intersection of photography, mapping, technology,... read more