2015 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Karey Walter

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

In the Ghetto of Warsaw: Heinrich Jost Photographs

Karey Walter is a recognized fine art, black and white photographer and educator. Born in Pittsburgh, in 1968, she holds a MFA degree from the University of Utah. Karey currently directs the photography program at... read more

Justin Ward

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

Unmanned Landscapes

Justin Ward is an MFA student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His BA in digital art is from SUNY Oneonta and MA in art education is from Teachers College, Columbia University... read more

Katherine Ware

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 2:00pm, Celestin E

Earth Now: The Autobiography of an Exhibition

Katherine Ware is Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. She previously served as Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Assistant Curator in the Department... read more

Liz Wells

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

Beyond the Document - Photography, Video and Antarctica

Liz Wells, writer, curator and lecturer on photographic practices, edited The Photography Reader, History and Theory (2019), The Photography Culture Reader (2019) and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2015, 5th ed.), all published by Routledge, and... read more

Hank Willis Thomas

Saturday, March 14, 2015 @ 5:30pm, Celestin Ballroom

Saturday Evening Guest Speaker: Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and his MFA/MA... read more

Jeffrey Wolin

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

The Art of Plenoptics

Jeffrey Wolin is Ruth Halls Professor of photography at Indiana University. Jeffrey's photographs have been shown at many museums in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and... read more

Lauren S. Zadikow

Friday, March 13, 2015 @ 1:00pm, Celestin D

50 Greenspace Dumpsites

Lauren S. Zadikow has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is currently a PhD candidate at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She... read more

Natalie Zelt

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

Lure of the Local: Issues in Photographing the Familiar

Natalie Zelt is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Her research focuses on photography's relationship to contemporary American culture, identity formation, and the politics of representation. Formerly the curatorial... read more