2018 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Melissa Kreider

Thursday, March 01, 2018 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon G

Graduate Presentations

Melissa Kreider is an MFA Candidate at The University of Iowa and holds a BFA in Photography from The University of Akron. Melissa's work examines the realities assault survivors face when seeking justice. Melissa is... read more

Betsy Leonard

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon G

"Diane Dammeyer Fellowship for Photographic Arts & Social Issues: An Entrepreneurial Model Building Bridges between Photography, Social Engagement, Community, Social Justice, and Education"

Betsy Leonard is VP of Engagement at Heartland Alliance, a global human rights, anti-poverty organization based in Chicago. She leads engagement strategy with external and internal stakeholders including board members, corporate partners, and volunteers, and... read more

Sarah Lewis

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 6:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon H

Evening Guest Speaker, Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis is the guest editor of the landmark "Vision & Justice" issue of >i>Aperture which received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. The issue was... read more

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon H

"Migration of Memory"

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

Daniel Milnor

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 2:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon I

Daniel Milnor: "The Future of Self-Publishing for Photographers"

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

Kevin J. Miyazaki

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 9:00am, Grand Ballroom Salon G

"Everyday I'm Hustlin': Artists Talk about Money"

Kevin J. Miyazaki is an artist, editorial photographer and educator living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His artwork addresses issues of memory, identity and his Japanese American family history. His freelance editorial clients include The New... read more

Giancarlo Montes

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 5:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon H

Evening Guest Speaker, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

Giancarlo Montes is a photographer based in New York. His work addresses the fraught relationships between sexuality, the body and space that both cohere and complicate the self. He is interested in the photograph's potential... read more

Zora Murff

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 11:00am, Grand Ballroom Salon I

"Corrections: Identification, Influence, and Image"

Zora J Murff is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas. Combining his education in human services and art, Zora's photography focuses on how images are used to reinforce social and cultural constructs... read more

Judy Natal

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon G

"Diane Dammeyer Fellowship for Photographic Arts & Social Issues: An Entrepreneurial Model Building Bridges between Photography, Social Engagement, Community, Social Justice, and Education"

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

Moritz Neumüller

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 1:00pm, Grand Ballroom Salon G

"From GO NO GO to La Grieta: European Photobooks on Borders, Immigration and Refugees"

Moritz Neumüller, is a curator, educator, and writer in the field of Visual Culture. He has worked for The Museum of Modern Art and is now Curator of the Photobook Week in Aarhus (Denmark), as... read more

Maria Nilsson

Saturday, March 03, 2018 @ 11:00am, Grand Ballroom Salon K

"Where the Migrants Sleep: The Photographic Practices of Tina Enghoff and Magnus Wennman"

Maria Nilsson (Ph. D. and M.F.A., University of Iowa) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University (Sweden) and a scholar whose research interests include the truth claim and... read more

Lucia Nimcova

Friday, March 02, 2018 @ 11:00am, Grand Ballroom Salon I

"KHRONIKY"

Born in 1977. Lucia Nimcova has a deep appreciation of the slippages between photography as an event and its operation in private and official life--the ways in which moments in both spheres are captured, some... read more