2026 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Shreepad Joglekar

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 5

Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide

Shreepad Joglekar is a worker from Mumbai, India. He has presented his work in various first, second, and third world countries. Intersections of Marxist thought with architecture and landscape theories stimulate his research. He is... read more

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Eric Joseph

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 1:00pm, Georgia 12

Freestyle - Inkjet Printing Demonstration Class and Printing Clinic #1

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 1:00pm, Georgia 12

Freestyle - Inkjet Printing Demonstration Class and Printing Clinic #2

Eric Joseph is a photographer and Senior Vice President of New Business and Product Development at Freestyle Photographic Supplies. Eric graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1985 with a B.A. in Art, Specializing in... read more

Christophe Katrib

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 5

Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide

Christophe Katrib is an artist/filmmaker and teaching professor of film and digital production at UC Riverside. His work is guided by a commitment to truth, authenticity, and amplifying misrepresented and/or erased voices. His teaching empowers... read more

Ashley Kaushinger

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 4

Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity

Ashley Kauschinger is an artist, educator, and curator based in Atlanta. Her work explores identity, time, and material. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Georgia Gwinnett College and has exhibited internationally. She has... read more

Anastasia Kirages

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 12:00pm, Georgia 6

The Power of the Photographic Zine

Anastasia "Stacy" Kirages, a collage artist, zinester, and community organizer for Zine Fest Houston (ZFH) and Uncle Bob's Photo Zine Market, explores themes of memory, history, nostalgia, and preservation in her work utilizing found ephemera... read more

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Lily Lagrange

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 4:30pm, Atlanta 5

Photography as Invocation: Mysticism, Gender, and the Act of Self-Authorization

Lily LaGrange is an artist working across photography, installation, and sculpture. She holds an MFA in Photography from Syracuse University (2024) and a BA in Economics from Louisiana State University (2018). Her work draws on... read more

Sonja Langford

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Atlanta 4

Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity

Sonja Langford (b. 1994) is an artist and researcher from the American South. An MFA candidate at the University of Connecticut with a BA in Art History from UNC Charlotte, her work spans photography, bookmaking,... read more

Jiayi Liang

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 3:00pm, Atlanta 1

Across the Long Season: Image-making as Labor, Resistance and Reclamation

Jiayi Liang is a Chinese lens-based artist exploring feminism, trauma, and photography. Through photo cutouts and landscapes, she examines how East Asian women's bodies are shaped by patriarchal structures. Liang is an MFA candidate at... read more

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Montenez Lowery

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 9:00am, Georgia 7

A Darktown Cakewalk

Montenez Lowery is a multidisciplinary Black American artist and writer working in Atlanta, GA, whose practice explores Black identity, memory, and loss. Interested in photographic material and working primarily with alternative photographic processes, his recent... read more