2020 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Tanvir Murad

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria III & IV

South Asia Panel: "Pathshala / Festival of Ideas / Truth to Power"

Khandaker Tanvir Murad (Dhaka, Bangladesh) is Head of the Photography Department at Pathshala. In 2018, under his supervision, Pathshala introduced the Bachelor of Social Science in Photography by securing affiliation with the University of Dhaka.... read more

Judy Natal

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria I&II

"Shifting Visions from Me to We"

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

Emily Peacock

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria III&IV

DIALOGIC: Women, Humor, Empathy and Representation

Emily Peacock is an artist who lives and works in Houston, Texas. She received her M.F.A. at the University of Houston. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Vienna, Austria and the U.K.... read more

Sasha Phyars-Burgess

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria I&II

"Shifting Visions from Me to We"

Sasha Phyars-Burgess was born in 1988 in Brooklyn, New York to Trinidadian parents, and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. read more

Yan Wang Preston

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Galleria I&II

DIALOGIC: Landscape Trauma

Dr Yan Wang Preston is a British-Chinese artist and lecturer interested in the contested states of nature in contemporary societies. Her projects, Mother River and Forest, won major awards including the Professional Landscape category, Sony... read more

Alice Proujansky

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 11:00am, Plaza I

"Teaching Visual Literacy: Aperture On Sight"

Alice Proujansky is a documentary photographer, teaching artist, and the lead curriculum writer for Aperture On Sight, Aperture's photography and visual-literacy curriculum. Her photographs of women, labor, birth, and leftists have been published widely; and... read more

Nino Rakichevich

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 1:00pm, Plaza I

"Study Abroad - Fashion Photography in Paris, France"

Nino Rakichevich is an advertising and fine art photographer based in Malibu, California. He has won over 40 national and international photography awards, and is a proud member of the elite artist organization ULUPUDS in... read more

Jan Rattia

Friday, March 06, 2020 @ 11:00am, Galleria III&IV

"Re-photographing the Boundaries: A Double Consciousness"

Jan Rattia (b.1974, Caracas, Venezuela) has exhibited at ICP, Atlanta Contemporary, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Baxter Street CCNY, FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography. Rattia is the 2017 Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship recipient from HCP... read more

Marijana Rayl

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 9:00am, Galleria I&II

DIALOGIC: Machine Vision

Pursuing the intersections of the still and moving image within the built environment, Marijana Rayl currently serves as Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before joining the... read more

Leah Schretenthaler

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 9:00am, Plaza I

Graduate Presentations

Leah Schretenthaler was born and raised in Hawaii. Her artistic research presents a connection between land and materiality. Her work has been displayed and published nationally and internationally. She was awarded the Rhonda Wilson Award... read more

Dr Mark Sealy MBE

Thursday, March 05, 2020 @ 12:00pm, Galleria I & II

"Both Directions at Once: Movement, Music, Image, Consciousness"

Thursday, March 05, 2020 @ 5:30pm, Galleria Ballroom

Evening Guest Speaker Dr Mark Sealy, MBE in Conversation with Liz Wells

Dr Mark Sealy MBE has been director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991 and has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide, including the critically acclaimed exhibition... read more

Xaviera Simmons

Saturday, March 07, 2020 @ 5:30pm, Galleria Ballroom

Evening Guest Speaker Xaviera Simmons

Xaviera Simmons lives and works in New York. Simmons' interdisciplinary practice spans across photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture and installation. Rooted in an investigation of past, present and future histories, her works often deal with... read more