2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
Looking for a chapter event?
Past SPE Annual Conferences
exhibitions
Northeast Chapter Conference Schedule
print this pageIncarceration and Photography
Saturday, October 29 - 9:15AM to 10:15PM
I teach photography at a Greenfield Community College in western Massachusetts. For the past two summers I have taught a class in a medium-security jail that is within walking distance of the college. The photography students at the jail work entirely in the jail library, where there is no natural light, using DSLRs, computers, and a printer loaned by the school. For most of the students, this is their first experience of college. Confinement, in terms of space, light, and subject matter, leads to storytelling through images, words, and memories of the outside.
The Lecture will show student work in from my classes and also work from a group that I co-facilitate at the jail. Images will be shown with a talk covering methods, pedagogy, challenges and the importance of teaching art to the incarcerated.
speaker
About
- Board Reports, Letters, and Minutes
- History
- Staff
- Board Members
- Board Committees
- Board Elections
- SPE Code of Conduct
- Caucuses
Join
Members
Annual Conference
- About the Conference
- Overview
- Speakers
- Schedule
- Registration
- Volunteer
- Sponsors
- Exhibit
- Anti-Harassment Policy
- Hotel & Travel
- Location + Travel
- Hotel
- Schedule of Events
- Schedule
News & Events
Chapters
Exposure Journal
About this piece
Comments about this piece
Dialogue and critique are important to the SPE mission.
Please join the conversation.