2026 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Tara Pixley

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Georgia 6

Photography Ethics in the Classroom

Tara Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American photojournalist and scholar whose work frames race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a solutions lens. read more

Alice Proujansky

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

Looking Together: Aperture On Sight Curriculum

Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity.

Her book, "Hard Times are Fighting Times," available from Gnomic Book, is a project about the legacy of radical activism... read more

Kanishka Puri

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 9:00am, Atlanta 1

Interspecies Collaboration - A case for an ecological feminist future

Kanishka is an NYC-based artist and writer, who works with non-human biological systems to further her research in eco-feminist futures. By proposing radical solidarities with her ecological allies and asserting the position of women as... read more

Jordan Putt

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 3:30pm, Atlanta 1

The Blue of Distance

Jordan Putt is an artist whose work responds to issues of place, identity, and community. His work has been exhibited in the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson; and Filter Space, Chicago; among others. Jordan... read more

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Jason Reblando (b. 1973, Flushing, NY) received a BA in
sociology from Boston College and is completing his MFA in
photography at Columbia College Chicago. He is a recipient of
an Illinois Arts Council Artist... read more

Emma Ressel 26

Saturday, March 21, 2026 @ 3:30pm, Agusta

Extant erosions

Emma Ressel (b. Bar Harbor, ME) is a photographer working with natural history archives. Ressel earned her BA in Photography at Bard College and her MFA at University of New Mexico. She was shortlisted for... read more

Juliana Rico

Thursday, March 19, 2026 @ 2:00pm, Georgia 12

On Becoming: Decolonizing Perspectives through Performance and Self Portraiture

Juliana Rico is a queer Latinx visual artist and educator whose work explores themes of identity, representation, and decolonization. Her work aims to investigate, confront, and unlearn indoctrinated colonial perspectives and practices. She lives in... read more

Dale Rio is a photographer and proponent of historic photographic processes whose work explores issues such as women's rights and humanity's relationship with the natural world. Utilizing darkroom techniques, she employs "straight" photography to... read more

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Ricardo Rodríguez Rey

Friday, March 20, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Athens

Archipiélago: Mapping Identity, Memory, and Erosion Through Photography

Ricardo Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican artist exploring the material and conceptual boundaries of photography through installation, sculpture, and video. His work examines the intersection of place, memory, and environmental change. Based in Los Angeles,... read more