West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Maedeh Ojaghloo

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 2:40pm,

Beyond Shattered Honor

Maedeh Ojaghloo (b. 1993, Tehran, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and social activist based in New York. She holds an MA in Animation from Maziar Higher Education Institute (2022) and an MFA in Photography and... read more

Steffanie Padilla

Thursday, November 06, 2025 @ 11:15am,

Storytelling Through the Lens: Youth Media Education

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 9:15am,

Storytelling Through the Lens: Youth Media Education at UCR ARTS

Steffanie Padilla is the Museum Education Program Coordinator at UCR ARTS California Museum of Photography and the Culver Center of the Arts. She is a Mexican-American artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker with a background in... read more

Joel Pickford

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 11:40am,

Building the Hmong Photographic History and Culture Archive

Joel Pickford is the author of "Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey Through the Hmong Diaspora" (Heyday 2012). His photographs have been exhibited and collected at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Institute of... read more

Roula Seikaly

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 10:20am,

Print Study for All

Roula Seikaly is an independent curator and writer based in Berkeley, CA, and Senior Editor at Humble Arts Foundation. Her curatorial practice addresses contemporary photography and new media, social justice efforts in contemporary art and... read more

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... read more

Colin Smith

Thursday, November 06, 2025 @ 10:15am,

What's New? Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for You and Your students

Colin Smith is a Los Angeles-based trainer, photographer, and creator. He is the founder of one of the world's most popular websites for creators -- PhotoshopCAFE.com -- which has received over 60 million visitors.
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Jason Tannen

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 1:00pm,

Weegee: Two Truths & A Lie

Jason Tannen is a photographer, gallery curator and educator. His photographs have been exhibited in both the U.S. and internationally, including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Rome, Budapest and China.

From 1998... read more

Andrew K. Thompson

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 3:30pm,

The Pleasure of Being Wrong

Statement
Thompson's practice is conceptual and process-oriented. His current work explores a reimagining of photography's core principles: light sensitivity, fixed images, and the systems that emerge from them. His process involves drifting through the... read more

Christopher Velasco

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 10:30am,

Framing Our Truths: Storytelling Through Photography with LGBTQ Seniors

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 11:20am,

Fresh Donor

My photographic works often incorporate performance-based encounters with clearly defined boundaries of the photograph structure that defy purpose or permanence. Each of my photographs captures the unsustainable gaze upon a disregarded, disfigured body that is... read more

Christian Waguespack

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 11:00am,

The Seattle Camera Club: Inclusivity and the Development of Art Photography in the Pacific Northwest

Christian Waguespack is Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Northwest Art, at the Museum of Northwest Art. In this role, Waguespack provides strategic vision and managerial leadership to MoNA's collection, exhibition, research, and... read more

Nicole White

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 2:00pm,

Unstable Ground: Photography, Memory, and the Construction of Meaning

Nicole White employs historical and contemporary photographic processes to examine the medium's varied functionality while studying the natural and built landscapes around us. Originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, she slowly moved across the United States and... read more

Jon Wollenhaupt

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 10:40am,

Online Marketing for Photographers

Jon Wollenhaupt is an award-wining photographer, print maker and writer whose work has been exhibited and published throughout the United States and internationally. He currently resides in Sacramento, Calif.

Education: Jon received a degree... read more