2015 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Takashi Arai

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 10:00am, Celestin D

Exposed in a Hundred Suns: US-Japan Nuclear Legacies and the New Daguerreotypes as Micro-monuments

Tokyo-based artist Takashi Arai is well known as a unique contemporary daguerreotypist in Japan. His work is not meant to showcase the object being depicted, but instead the medium of photography itself. His works were... read more

Michelle Bablitz

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 11:40am, Celestin A

"I Could Go with You.": Double Literacy in Photography

Michelle Bablitz is a fine art photographer currently living in New York, New York. After completing her MFA in Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, Michelle has continued her investigation into the relationship between text... read more

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Renee Billingslea

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 10:00am, Celestin A

Exploring Society Through Photography: Connecting Students to Community

Photographer, artist, and teacher, Renee Billingslea earned her BFA at Southern Oregon State University. She served in the US Peace Corps, in the Central Pacific island Nation of Kiribati, after returning she earned her MFA... read more

Aaron Blum

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 9:00am, Celestin FGH

Lure of the Local: Issues in Photographing the Familiar

As an eighth-generation West Virginian, Aaron Blum creates art deeply linked to his home in Appalachia. His unique personal history inspires his creative work, which contrasts stereotypes with representations of an upper middle class heritage.... read more

Michelle Bogre

Thursday, March 12, 2015 @ 1:30pm, Celestin BC

Michelle Bogre, "Photography 4.0: An Educator's Forum"

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

Lily Brooks

Thursday, March 12, 2015 @ 3:00pm, Celestin BC

Grant Scott, "The New Global Landscape of Photography"

Lily Brooks holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and featured in... read more

Chris Burnett

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 9:00am, Celestin E

Projecting the Sky: Photography and the Planetarium/Atmospherium

Chris Burnett currently teaches photography and media art at the Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo. His photographs and digital works concerning the media environment have been exhibited widely. He received the inaugural... read more

Georgi Chunev

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 3:00pm, Celestin FGH

The Art of Plenoptics

Georgi Chunev is a Computer Science PhD candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is working under Professor Andrew Lumsdaine on topics related to interactive plenoptic rendering. Georgi's work experience includes interning with the plenoptics research... read more

Coriana Close

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 9:00am, Celestin FGH

Mind the Gap: Surviving the Paradigm Shift in Photographic Education

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

Matthew Clowney

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 9:00am, Celestin FGH

Mind the Gap: Surviving the Paradigm Shift in Photographic Education

Matthew Clowney is an adjunct professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design. His photographs are represented in numerous collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Art Museum. He enjoys walks... read more

Mary Costello

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 11:00am, Celestin FGH

Parallax Errors Aligning Concept with Material in Photographic Practice

Mary Costello teaches at Loreto Kirribilli independent Catholic day school in Sydney, Australia, as a Photographic and Digital Media teacher, graduating from the College of Fine Arts, Sydney with a B Ed (Visual Arts). Mary... read more