West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Nalani Hernandez Melo

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 10:00am, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

Las Fotos Project

Nalani is a visual storyteller + artist whose creative experience spans editorial and client projects in print, film, and digital media.

Heavily influenced by travel, cinema, and spirituality, Nalani is drawn to unearthing... read more

Angelina Merancio

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 2:30pm, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

Intersections of Art, Science, Archival Research, and Field Studies

Angelina Merancio is a senior student at University of Nevada Reno. She is an English - writing major with minors in photography and journalism. Her recent study has been in multimedia where she combines her... read more

Sephine Milan

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 2:00pm, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Recreating Memory through Imagemaking

Sephine Milan is a graphic designer and photographer from Los Angeles whose creative work bridges the worlds of visual storytelling and social justice.

Sephine has long used her artistic voice to advocate for meaningful... read more

Lorena Molina

Friday, November 07, 2025 @ 4:00pm, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

Where Images Live: Photography, Place, and the Power of Presence

LORENA MOLINA is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University and the founder of Third Space Gallery, which uplifts BIPOC artists... read more

Maedeh Ojaghloo

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 2:40pm, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

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, 4011 14th St., Riverside, CA 92501

Storytelling Through the Lens: Youth Media Education

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 @ 11:00am, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

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

Alkaid Ramirez

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 3:30pm, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

On Displacement, Histories and Possibilities, Using Photography as a Decolonial Tool

Alkaid Ramirez is a lens-based artist based in Anaheim. Their practice utilizes traditional photography and archiving to capture integral scenes, stories, and civil unrest within their community through material analysis and nuanced perspectives.

Ramirez's... read more

Roula Seikaly

Saturday, November 08, 2025 @ 10:20am, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

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, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

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, 4011 14th St., Riverside, CA 92501

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, 3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

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