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 - 11:00AM
Georgia 7
Materiality and Response-ability
Mona Bozorgi: Jamie Ho, Justin A. Carney
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 6
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
Macon
Social Practice: Navigating Academia
Ken Marchionno: Kim Abeles, Jenny Jacklin-Stratton, Richard Shelton, John Freyer
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 3
Cut Time: Collage and the Afterlives of Photographs
Jason Reblando: Deborah Orloff, Janna Ireland, Vanessa Woods
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 4
Reframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography
Lindsay Godin: Adam Long, Frank Hammock
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 5
After the Glut - Photobook Publishing in the Age of Plenty
J. Carrier & Nelson Chan: Matt Eich, Harrison Miller, Mary Virgina Swanson
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Atlanta 2
Designing Accessible Pinhole Camera Kits Through Campus Collaboration
Gwendolyn Davies
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Agusta
Analog Meets Eco-Tech: Course Design for Sustainable Photography
Jennifer Wilkosz
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Athens
Performing Strength: Exchanges between Feminist Art and Bodybuilding
Rebecca Drolen; Imagemaker Award
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Valdosta
Women's Caucus Meeting
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 5
Career Mentoring
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
Valdosta
A Welcome Weight on My Body: Affect, Black Visuality and Analogue Photography
Michèle Pearson Clarke
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Athens
A HUMBLE EPIC: High School students, Alec Soth, and longform photo projects
Jacob Cecil - High School Educator Award
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
Invited Speaker - Friday
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
Georgia 12
Science as Art/Art as Science
Areca Roe: Eric Zeigler, Jay Gould, Lisa Robinson, Chuck Hemard
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Georgia 7
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
Athens
New Paradigms in Portraiture
June T. Sanders $ Clara DeWeese: Jenny Jacklyn-Stratton
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Macon
Your Administrator and You
Libby Rowe: Ruth Adams, Michael Borowski, Chris Dant, Easton Selby
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Atlanta 4
Interdepartmental Collaboration in Image Making
Noah Thompson & John Freyer
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Atlanta 2
The Art of Wet Scanning: A Complete Film-to-Digital Workshop
Vahid Valikhani
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Valdosta
Intentional Communities for Women
Gina Dabrowski
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Agusta
Geography of Disappearance: Documenting Migrant Deaths on the US/Mexico Border
Marcus DeSieno
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Georgia 5
Career Mentoring
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 - 5:00PM
Georgia 5
Professional Portfolio Reviews
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Valdosta
Aesthetics of Teenage Life
Jill Frank
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Agusta
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
Invited Speaker - Saturday
afternoon
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 12
Navigating the Polycrisis
DM Witman: Amanda Breitbach, Lily Brooks, Vasudev Vashisht
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 7
Witching Hour
Stephanie Dowda DeMer: Zen Cohen, Sammie Correa, Elizabeth McGrady
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Georgia 6
Climate Resilience in the American South
Jeremy Bolen & Allison Grant : Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann, Marni Shindleman
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Athens
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 - 3:30PM
Valdosta
Photography Ethics in the Classroom
Savannah Dodd & Tara Pixley
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 1
Looking Together: Aperture On Sight Curriculum
Alice Proujansky & Alexandra Pacheco-Garcia
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 2
Anthotypes: Sustainable Photographic Printmaking
Alice Austen House Museum: Kristen Bartley
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Agusta
On Becoming: Decolonizing Perspectives through Performance and Self Portraiture
Juliana Rico
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Atlanta 3
Against the Grain
Mark Maio, Anthony Bannon, William Boling
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Atlanta 4
Reframing the Lens: Identity, Dialogue, and Digital Pedagogy in the Photography
Angela Casagrande
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Atlanta 5
It's All Fake! Post-Truth, Flat Earth, and the Nikon P1000
Stephen Crompton
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Macon
Catalysts for Community: Kapwa and the Banana Tree
Mariah Moneda
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Macon
Folded Histories - A Study of the Fortune Cookie Mythos
Ruiqi Xu
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Agusta
Woven Wind
Vesna Pavlovic
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Macon
Residencies Demystified
Kaitlin Santoro
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 3
Love Canal; Evidence of Injury
Shana Merola
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 4
You're Looking, I'm Looking
Kylee Isom
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Welcome & Awards
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Georgia 2
Exhibitor's Meet and Greet
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 5
Education Fair
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Valdosta
Libraries and Archives: Catalysts or Cloisters for Photographic Education?
Deborah Hollis: Shannon Benine, Zulay Chang, Andrew E. Hershberger, Julie Liebersat
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Athens
Camera-Making As Photographic Practice
Chris Fraser: Madison Emond, Rebecca Cummins
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 3
The Archive as a Photographic Tool
Kayla Holdgreve: Evan Hume, Mahsa Ataran, Toni Pepe, Janna Ireland
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 4
An Unfixed Pilgrimage: Vulnerability, Kinship & Healing through Collaboration
Sara Winston & Jared Ragland: Rachel Boillot, Allison Grant, J Carrier
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 5
Photography as Invocation: Mysticism, Gender, and the Act of Self-Authorization
Nika McKagen: Nadia Sablin, Olivia Johnson, Lily Lagrange, Kelsey Sucena
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 7
A Darktown Cakewalk
Montenez Lowery
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Georgia 6
Archipiélago: Mapping Identity, Memory, and Erosion Through Photography
Ricardo Rodriquez
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 2
Floodplain Projects: A Collaborative Studio
Eliza Gregory
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Agusta
Pride Caucus Meeting
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Macon
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 7
Private/Public
Andrew Lyman
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Georgia 6
Exploring Racialization of Photographs through Encounters as an Asian-American
Paolo Morales
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Atlanta 1
Soft Bodies: The Malleable Self
Katheryne Flake
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Macon
High School Educator's Caucus Workshop
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Agusta
Insufficient Memory to Queer American Memorials
Sean Fader
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Atlanta 1
Safe Spaces, Powerful Stories: LGBTQ+ Photographic Storytelling & Alice Austen
Zoë Tirado
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Atlanta 2
Water is Never Still: Ruminations on water politics & poetics in Lebanon
Heather M. O'Brien-Takahashi
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Valdosta
Multicultural Caucus Meeting
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Georgia 2
Exhibitor's Meet and Greet
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Georgia 5
Education Fair
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 2
Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity
Ashely Kaushinger: Savannah Dodd, Sonja Langford, Jean Shon, Fazilat Soukhakian
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 3
Place as assemblage: expansive methods in documentary practice
Leslie Grant & Briar Pine: Tia-Simone Gardner, Shannon Benine, Jaysen Hohlen
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Valdosta
Chapter Meeting: Mid-Atlantic & Northeast
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Agusta
Chapter Meeting: South Central
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Athens
Chapter Meeting: Midwest
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Macon
Chapter Meeting: Southeast
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 1
Chapter Meeting: Northwest
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 2
Chapter Meeting: West
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Atlanta 3
Chapter Meeting: Southwest
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Atlanta 1
Wildfire Prophecies: Entering the Pyrocene Era
Margaret Stratton
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
Valdosta
The Blue of Distance
Jordan Putt & Kelli Connell
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Agusta
Extant erosions
Emma Ressel
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Athens
A note on learning how to look
Lu Gao
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Macon
The Sun Sets Midafternoon: Climate Grief through the Lens of Wildfire
Jessica Hays
evening
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Georgia State University
MFA Meet and Greet
6:30PM - 8:30PM
Agusta
Pride Caucus Throwdown
7:00PM - 8:30PM
Georgia 5
SPE Print Exchange
Lindsay Godin
8:30PM - 11:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Portfolio Walk-Through
9:00PM - 5:30PM
Georgia 2
Exhibits Fair
10:00PM - 11:00PM
Agusta
Contingent Faculty Caucus Meeting
5:00PM - 5:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
Members Meeting
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Capitol Ballroom
SPE Annual Raffle
9:00PM - 11:55PM
TBA
SPE Dance Party
Freestyle Photographic Supply
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