Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Marzieh Ahmadi

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 12:30pm, Hopkins 250

Flame: Fragments of Self Across Borders

I am Marzieh Ahmadi, an Iranian photographer, and I hold an MA in Photography from the Art University of Tehran and have taught photography at universities in Iran. My primary focus in photography has been... read more

Amir Behroozi Rad

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 12:30pm, Hopkins 250

Flame: Fragments of Self Across Borders

Amir Behroozi Rad (b. 1988, Iran) is a documentary photographer based in the United States. His work focuses on social narratives, environmental change, and human-centered storytelling through long-term photo essays. His projects explore the relationship... read more

Olivia Bull

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 9:00am, Hopkins 246

Self-Archiving as Lesbian Reclamation

Olivia Bull is an artist whose current research explores themes of gender and sexuality through collaborative image-making with her long-term girlfriend. Her practice is grounded in the darkroom, where she makes silver gelatin prints. Bull... read more

Michelle Burdine

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 10:30am, Hopkins 250

Exploring Grief and Transformation: Personal Experience, Artistic Practice, and Curatorial Work

Michelle Burdine holds an MFA from OSU and is an Associate Professor of Art at Centre College, Danville, KY. She is interested in how large-scale systems and social conventions--such as pronatalism, healthcare, taxation, and family--inscribe... read more

Teri Campbell

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 9:00am, Hopkins 250

The Future of Photography: Critical Perspectives on AI

After nearly four decades creating commercial photography for some of the world's most iconic brands, Teri Campbell now brings that experience to AI-driven visual content. He is the author of Food Photography and Lighting and... read more

Logan Davis

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 10:00am, Hopkins 246

Show Your Work

Logan Gibson Davis is a lens based artist from North Carolina. His work focuses on a range of subjects including death, family, and intelligence. His craft is a mix of historical and contemporary photographic processes... read more

Rob Dickes, associate professor at the University of Southern Indiana, is developing a photography program grounded in a fine art- and design-forward pedagogy. At his current university, he transformed a struggling program that offered as... read more

Zora Engalan

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 1:30pm, Hopkins 250

From Start to Finish: Curating Our First Exhibition

Zora Engalan is an artist informed by diasporic identity and her Filipino heritage, working primarily in photography and mixed-media. Her work focuses on themes of loss and change through time and place. Her work has... read more

Brad Feinknopf is a Columbus, Ohio-based internationally- recognized architectural photographer with over 30 years of experience. A Cornell design graduate from a family of architects, he assisted Avedon, Mapplethorpe, and Newman in New York before... read more

Maryam Ghasempour Siahgaldeh

Friday, October 16, 2026 @ 12:30pm, Hopkins 250

Flame: Fragments of Self Across Borders

Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh (b. 1994) is an Iranian artist and researcher working with documentary and conceptual photography. She is currently an MFA candidate in Photography at Pennsylvania State University. Her practice explores themes of... read more

Tanya Habjouqa

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 10:30am, Hopkins 246

Where the Devil Is Not Looking: Documentary Practice as Cultivation of the Invisible

Tanya Habjouqa is an artist and educator whose counter-archival practice examines occupation, erasure, and ecology while tracing how frontier logic shapes citizenship, race, and belonging. Her monograph Occupied Pleasures was among TIME's best photobooks; she... read more

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