West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Christine Lee Smith

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 1:30pm,

Pedagogy: The Importance of Analog Practice in the Digital Classroom

Christine Lee Smith is an award winning portrait photographer in Southern California. Smith received her MFA from Azusa Pacific University. Smith's research interests lie in photography's relationship to embodiment and identity, and she has presented original papers on photography's relationship to embodiment, as well as photographic pedagogy, at conferences such as Sustainable Photography and SPE National in 2025, and at Baylor University in 2022. Smith received honorable mentions in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, and was a finalist in the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Gallery award. Her work has appeared in the Duncan Miller Gallery, Gallery 825, and at the Museum of Latin American Art. Smith is currently an Instructor of Photography at California Baptist University.