2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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9:00AM - 10:00AM
Valdosta
Student Volunteer Training Session #1
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Valdosta
Student Volunteer Training #2
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Valdosta
Student Volunteer : Special Session
7:00AM - 9:00AM
TBA
SPE Breakfast
7:00AM - 8:00AM
SPE Registration
SPE Morning Run
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Valdosta
Recovery Meeting
9:00AM - 5:30PM
Georgia 2
Exhibits Fair
9:00AM - 11:30AM
Atlanta 3
Reframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography
Lindsay Godin: Adam Long, Frank Hammock
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 5
Materiality and Response-ability
Mona Bozorgi: Jamie Ho, Justin A. Carney, Lauren Cesiro
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 2
Reframing Collegiate Photography Education: Curriculum Innovation to Attract and Retain Students in Photography Programs
Robert Dickes: Melissa Nunez, Nick Shepard, Curt Steckel
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 4
Cut Time: Collage and the Afterlives of Photographs
Jason Reblando: Deborah Orloff, Janna Ireland, Vanessa Woods
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 12
Archipiélago: Mapping Identity, Memory, and Erosion Through Photography
Ricardo Rodriquez
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 6
Performing Strength: Exchanges between Feminist Art and Bodybuilding
Rebecca Drolen; Imagemaker Award
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Capitol Ballroom
Women's Caucus Meeting
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Atlanta 1
The Auger and The Augment: Image Release as Transsexual Cataclysm
Jamie Pittinos
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Atlanta 1
We Wanted a Matriarchy
Keeley Morgan
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Georgia 5
Student Portfolio Reviews
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 12
Exploring Racialization of Photographs through Encounters as an Asian-American
Paolo Morales
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 7
A Welcome Weight on My Body: Affect, Black Visuality and Analogue Photography
Michèle Pearson Clarke
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 6
A HUMBLE EPIC: High School students, Alec Soth, and longform photo projects
Jacob Cecil - High School Educator Award
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Capitol Ballroom
Contingent Faculty Caucus Meeting
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Atlanta 1
Refusal, Residue, and Relational Looking: Photography at the Edge of the Archive
Sonja Langford
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 1
A Veterans walk through photographic education with PTSD.
Richard Austin
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Wendel White
Invited Speaker
7:00AM - 9:00AM
TBA
SPE Breakfast
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Valdosta
Recovery Meeting
9:00AM - 2:30PM
Georgia 2
Exhibits Fair
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 2
Science as Art/Art as Science
Areca Roe: Eric Zeigler, Jay Gould, Lisa Robinson, Chuck Hemard, Aaron Ellison
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 5
A Lens on the Underground: How the DIY Punk Community Self-Documented a History
John Rash & Ivette Spradlin: Abigail Cook, Dale Rio
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 6
Reciprocity Reframed: Co-Creating in the Light of Belonging
Jessica Labatte: Teresa Emmett, Elena Volkova, Rachel Boillot
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Agusta
Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity
Ashely Kaushinger: Savannah Dodd, Sonja Langford, Jean Shon, Fazilat Soukhakian
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 3
Place as assemblage: expansive methods in documentary practice
Leslie Grant & Briar Pine: Tia-Simone Gardner, Shannon Benine, Jaysen Hohlen
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 4
Interdepartmental Collaboration in Image Making
Noah Thompson & John Freyer
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 5,11
Career Mentoring
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 7
Intentional Communities for Women
Gina Dabrowski
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 12
Geography of Disappearance: Documenting Migrant Deaths on the US/Mexico Border
Marcus DeSieno
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Atlanta 1
Interspecies Collaboration - A case for an ecological feminist future
Kanishka Puri
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Atlanta 1
The Image is Broken: A Case for Object Integration
Delaney Hoffman
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 7
Aesthetics of Teenage Life
Jill Frank
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 12
A Participatory Visual Investigation into the Migrant Children in China
Tianqiutao Chen
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Atlanta 1
Ascendance; self-portraiture as ritual
Baran Ataei Ardestani
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 1
Two Century Plants, Intertwined
Alexis Hagestad
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Capitol Ballroom
Charlotte Cotton
Invited Speaker
afternoon
12:00PM - 2:30PM
GSU
The Art of Wet Scanning: A Complete Film-to-Digital Workshop
Vahid Valikhani
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Atlanta 1
Climate Resilience in the American South
Jeremy Bolen & Allison Grant : Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Marni Shindleman
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Atlanta 4
New Paradigms in Portraiture
June T. Sanders $ Clara DeWeese: Jenny Jacklyn-Stratton
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Atlanta 2
Photography Ethics in the Classroom
Savannah Dodd & Tara Pixley
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Georgia 7
Reframing the Lens: Identity, Dialogue, and Digital Pedagogy in the Photography
Angela Casagrande
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Georgia 12
It's All Fake! Post-Truth, Flat Earth, and the Nikon P1000
Stephen Crompton
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Georgia 6
Residencies Demystified
Kaitlin Santoro
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Georgia 7
You're Looking, I'm Looking
Kylee Isom
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Atlanta 3
Safe Spaces, Powerful Stories: LGBTQ+ Photographic Storytelling & Alice Austen
Zoë Tirado
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Georgia 12
Catalysts for Community: Kapwa and the Banana Tree
Mariah Moneda
1:30PM - 2:00PM
Georgia 12
Folded Histories - A Study of the Fortune Cookie Mythos
Ruiqi Xu
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 1
Navigating the Polycrisis
DM Witman: Amanda Breitbach, Lily Brooks, Vasudev Vashisht
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 4
Witching Hour
Stephanie Dowda DeMer: Zen Cohen, Sammie Correa, Elizabeth McGrady
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 5
Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide
Christophe Katrib: Shreepad Joglekar, Harrison Moenich, Stephanie Brown, Jason Ariel-Klein
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 6
Your Administrator and You
Libby Rowe: Ruth Adams, Michael Borowski, Chris Dant, Easton Selby
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 2
Looking Together: Aperture On Sight Curriculum
Alice Proujansky & Alexandra Pacheco-Garcia
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 3
Anthotypes: Sustainable Photographic Printmaking
Alice Austen House Museum: Kristen Bartley
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Georgia 12
On Becoming: Decolonizing Perspectives through Performance and Self Portraiture
Juliana Rico
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Georgia 7
Against the Grain
Mark Maio, Anthony Bannon, William Boling
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 12
Woven Wind
Vesna Pavlovic
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 7
Love Canal; Evidence of Injury
Shana Merola
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Welcome & Awards
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 5
Education Fair
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 2
Exhibits Meet and Greet
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 2
After the Glut - Photobook Publishing in the Age of Plenty
J. Carrier & Nelson Chan: Matt Eich, Harrison Miller, Mary Virgina Swanson
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 4
Libraries and Archives: Catalysts or Cloisters for Photographic Education?
Deborah Hollis: Shannon Benine, Zulay Chang, Andrew E. Hershberger, Julie Libersat
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 5
Camera-Making As Photographic Practice
Chris Fraser: Madison Emond, Rebecca Cummins
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 3
An Unfixed Pilgrimage: Vulnerability, Kinship & Healing through Collaboration
Sara Winston & Jared Ragland: Rachel Boillot, Allison Grant, J Carrier
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 7
Floodplain Projects: A Collaborative Studio
Eliza Gregory
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
High School Educator Caucus Meeting
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Atlanta 1
No Place But Here
Dillon Bryant
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 1
Across the Long Season: Image-making as Labor, Resistance and Reclamation
Jiayi Liang
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 6
Private/Public
Andrew Lyman
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 6
The Sun Sets Midafternoon: Climate Grief through the Lens of Wildfire
Jessica Hays
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 6
Pride Caucus Meeting
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 1
Soft Bodies: The Malleable Self
Katheryne Flake
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Atlanta 1
Water is Never Still: Ruminations on water politics & poetics in Lebanon
Heather M. O'Brien-Takahashi
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Atlanta 3
Social Practice: Navigating Academia
Ken Marchionno: Kim Abeles, Jenny Jacklin-Stratton, Richard Shelton, John Freyer
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Atlanta 4
The Archive as a Photographic Tool
Kayla Holdgreve: Evan Hume, Mahsa Ataran, Toni Pepe, Janna Ireland
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Atlanta 5
Photography as Invocation: Mysticism, Gender, and the Act of Self-Authorization
Nika McKagen: Nadia Sablin, Olivia Johnston, Lily Lagrange, Kelsey Sucena
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Atlanta 2
High School Educator's Caucus Workshop
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Georgia 7
Wildfire Prophecies: Entering the Pyrocene Era
Margaret Stratton
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 5
Education Fair
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 2
Exhibits Meet and Greet
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 5
Professional Portfolio Reviews
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 3
Chapter Meeting: Mid-Atlantic & Northeast
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 12
Chapter Meeting: South Central
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 4
Chapter Meeting: Midwest
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 7
Chapter Meeting: Southeast
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 6
Chapter Meeting: Northwest
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 1
Chapter Meeting: West
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 2
Chapter Meeting: Southwest
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 4
Analog Meets Eco-Tech: Course Design for Sustainable Photography
Jennifer Wilkosz
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 7
(WHEN THE DUST SETTLES)
Dominique Ellis
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 6
Vanishing From View The Forgotten Technique of Cliché-Verre in Photography
Daniel Hojnacki
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 1
The Blue of Distance
Jordan Putt & Kelli Connell
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 2
Extant erosions
Emma Ressel
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 12
A note on learning how to look
Lu Gao
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Members Meeting
evening
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Georgia State University
MFA Meet and Greet
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Atlanta 1
Designing Accessible Pinhole Camera Kits Through Campus Collaboration
Gwendolyn Davies
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Georgia 12
Insufficient Memory to Queer American Memorials
Sean Fader
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Georgia 12
Pride Caucus Throwdown
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Georgia 5
SPE Print Exchange
Lindsay Godin & Scott Hinton
8:30PM - 11:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Portfolio Walk-Through
9:00PM - 10:00PM
Georgia 7
A Darktown Cakewalk
Montenez Lowery
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
SPE Annual Raffle
9:00PM - 11:55PM
TBA
SPE Dance Party
Freestyle Photographic Supply
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