2025 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Evan Baden

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 10:00am, Tuscany 9

Composit: Creating a Photobook Press in a Curricular Structure

Evan Baden is an acclaimed practitioner of photography with numerous exhibitions, publications, and collections. Owner of Push Pull Editions and Director of Composit Press at Oregon State University, both of which are small, independent photobook... read more

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Renee Billingslea

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 2:30pm, Tuscany 9

American Soil: Ten Japanese American Concentration Camps

Renee Billingslea is a teaching professor, photographer at Santa Clara University. She received her BFA from Southern Oregon University and an MFA from San Jose State University and is Returning Peace Corps Volunteer. Her artistic... read more

Jeremy Bolen

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 2:00pm, Tuscany 9

Speculative Aesthetics

Jeremy Christopher Bolen is an artist, researcher, organizer, filmmaker and educator interested in speculative planetary futures. His work has been exhibited internationally at numerous locations including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; the Museum of... read more

Katharina Bosse

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 9:00am, Tuscany 10

Publishing as collective feminist practice

Katharina Bosse works on gender and biography based longterm projects. She uses analog darkroom photography as well as digital collages. Katharina Bosse was born in Turku, Finland in 1968. After living in New York in... read more

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Mona Bozorgi

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 1:30pm, Tuscany 12

Weft and Void: Material Echoes of Digital Resistance

Was born and raised in Iran, Bozorgi utilizes photography to represent the complexities of culture, society, and personal reflection. Her work questions and challenges the contemporary understanding of self, culture, and identity. Bozorgi received her... read more

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Kimberly Juanita Brown

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 11:00am, Tuscany AB

Photography and Haptic Time

Kimberly Juanita Brown is the inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College where she is also an Associate Professor of English and creative writing. She is the author... read more

Leslie K. Brown

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 3:30pm, Tuscany 12

"View Finders": Finding and Framing the Landscape in Contemporary Photography

Leslie K. Brown is an independent curator and educator and previously served as curator for Photographic Resource Center. The product of a Kodak family, she earned her PhD from Boston University and MA from UT-Austin.... read more

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Kenton Bueche is an artist living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are a graduate student at UNM. Before becoming an artist, they were a social worker. This experience is the foundation of their... read more