2025 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

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Ivan Vartanian

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

Japanese Photography: The Influence of Photography Magazine Culture

Ivan Vartanian is an author, editor, and publisher. His major publications include "Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers" (2005), "Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s" (2009), and "Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s" (2023).... read more

Vasudev Vashisht

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 9:00am, Tuscany 10

Social Collaboration and Material Ecology in the Contemporary Image

Vasudev Vashisht is a lens-based creative researcher-practitioner of Indian origin. By combining
a range of analog process-based & ethnographic methodologies, his work confronts extractive anthropocentrism and centers on socio-environmental justice. He is a photography... read more

Terri Warpinski

Friday, March 07, 2025 @ 9:00am, Tuscany 12

Adapting our Work to a Changing Climate

Terri Warpinski examines the complex, messy relationships between personal, cultural and natural histories through her research-intense lens-based mixed media work. She is distinguished as a Senior Fulbright Fellow (Israel), Professor Emerita at the University... read more

Nicole White

Thursday, March 06, 2025 @ 3:00pm, Tuscany 11

Rethinking the Textbook: A Basic Guide to Photography

Nicole White is an artist and professor in the Bay Area. Her practice and research consider how photographs alter the way we perceive and understand the world around us. White exhibits widely, and her publications... read more

Ashima Yadava

Saturday, March 08, 2025 @ 9:30am, Tuscany 10

Huq: I Seek No Favor

Ashima Yadava is a conceptual documentary photographer and printmaker. With the camera as her conduit, she works on long-form stories and believes in art as a means to social activism and reform.

Born... read more