West Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

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Nigel Poor

Nigel Poor's work has been shown at: San Jose Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, Friends of Photography, SF Camerawork, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary... read more

James Rhem

Saturday, November 07, 2026 @ 2:30pm,

Anne Brigman and Truth

James Rhem is an independent scholar in the history of photography specializing in biographical study of significant figures in photography's classic modern period. He is the author of two books on Ralph Eugene Meatyard --... read more

christy roberts berkowitz (whose name includes her maternal family's surname and is intentionally presented in lowercase) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, writer, and educator working for care and dignity in a world of constant man-made... read more

Christine Lee Smith

Saturday, November 07, 2026 @ 3:45pm,

In Perpetuity: The Case for Slow Looking in a Scrolling World

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

Nicole White

Saturday, November 07, 2026 @ 1:30pm,

A Certain Sensibility: Belief in an Age of Technological Doubt

Nicole White employs historical and contemporary photographic processes to examine the medium's varied functionality while studying the natural and built landscapes around us. Originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, she slowly moved across the United States and... read more