Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Larissa Leclair

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 4:00pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

PANEL: Collections and Legacy: the life of your book after it is published/self-published

Larissa Leclair is the Founder of the Indie Photobook Library (2010), an archive of self-published and indie published photobooks now permanently placed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale University). Throughout her tenure... read more

John Mann

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 7:30pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

HONORED EDUCATOR: John Mann

John Mann is an artist who explores the visual complications of photography, the sequence and the still life though printed images, artist books and sculptural works. His artwork has been exhibited in solo and... read more

John Edwin Mason

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 2:45pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

FEATURED SCHOLAR: John Edwin Mason

John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography. He has written extensively on early nineteenth-century South African history, especially the history of slavery, South African popular culture, especially the Cape Town New... read more

Elizabeth McGrady

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 2:00pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

IMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Maggie Flanigan & Elizabeth McGrady

Elizabeth McGrady is an artist working and living in Richmond, Virginia where she is a 2020 MFA Photography student at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work examines humanity's connection to the supernatural, both the search for... read more

Brittany Nelson

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 11:00am, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

IMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Terry Ratzlaff & Brittany Nelson

Brittany Nelson (b. 1984, Great Falls, MT) works with 19th century photographic chemistry techniques to address themes of feminist science fiction and queer abstraction. She is the recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Grant in... read more

Rebecca Nolan

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 11:00am, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

PANEL: For the Love of Books

Rebecca Nolan grew up in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. She is a fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally. She earned a BA in Communications, the study of Humanities and Photography. She attended the... read more

Brian Palmer

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 3:00pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

FEATURED SPEAKER: Brian Palmer

Brian Palmer is a Richmond-based visual journalist and reporting fellow at Type Investigations (formerly the Investigative Fund). Before going freelance in 2002, he served in a number of staff positions: Beijing bureau chief (US News... read more

Terry Ratzlaff

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 11:00am, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

IMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Terry Ratzlaff & Brittany Nelson

Terry A. Ratzlaff (born 1985 Richmond, VA) is 2nd year MFA candidate and instructor of record at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his BA from the Art Institute of Colorado in 2007. His work... read more

Jeff Rich

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 11:00am, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

PANEL: For the Love of Books

Jeff Rich's work focuses on water issues ranging from recreation and sustainability to exploitation and abuse. Jeff explores these subjects by using long-term photographic documentations of very specific regions of the United States. Jeff received... read more

Travis Shaffer

Sunday, October 20, 2019 @ 9:30am, VCUarts Pollak Building, 325 N. Harrison St.

WORKSHOP: Multi-Color photographic reproduction via RISO

Travis Shaffer (b. 1983 - Pennsylvania, USA) is a visual artist whose work spans the mediums of photography, digital imaging, and the artist's book. Shaffer's photography-based book work has been exhibited internationally at venues including... read more

Jared Soares

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 1:00pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

IMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Matt Eich & Jared Soares

Jared Soares is a Washington, D.C. based photographer whose work creates a dialogue around community and identity in America. Through portraiture and long-form essays he examines how sets of people relate to each other. His... read more

Gordon Stettinius

Friday, October 18, 2019 @ 4:00pm, Candela Gallery, 214 West Broad St.

Candela Gallery Curator Walk-Through

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 11:00am, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

PANEL: For the Love of Books

In 2010, Gordon Stettinius founded an independent publishing company, Candela Books, which has published monographs from Gita Lenz, Shelby Lee Adams, Chris McCaw, Willie Anne Wright, Kahn & Selesnick and others. Candela's most recent... read more