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Ben Ko photographs everyone from authors and athletes to CEOs and surgeons. His photographs have appeared everywhere from books and expositions to Central Park and Times Square. He has been published in Runner's World, SELF,... read more

Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. She has received awards for her work, including a Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Solo exhibitions of her... read more

Laura Larson

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Hopkins 250

Portals: The Potential of Refusal & Collaborative Photographic Spaces

Laura Larson is an artist, educator, and Guggenheim Fellow. Larson's photographs mine the intersections between politics and poetics, using photography's history as a documentary practice to tell personal and sociocultural narratives. read more

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Samuel Lo

Saturday, October 17, 2026 @ 2:30pm, Hopkins 250

Portals: The Potential of Refusal & Collaborative Photographic Spaces

Samuel Lo is a photo-based artist and educator, who recently earned his MFA from The Department of Art at The Ohio State University (2026). Lo's photography explores light and darkness, and how identity is deeply... read more

Tracy Longley-Cook

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

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

Tracy Longley-Cook has her BFA and MFA in photography from the University of Washington (1997), and Arizona State University (2007). Currently, she is an Associate Professor of photography at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.... read more

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area. Her artistic work pairs experimental lens based methods to explore identity through a symbolic and poetic lens. A graduate of both College for... read more

Maddie McGarvey is a documentary photographer and visual journalist based in Columbus, Ohio. Her long-term work examines how political, economic, and social forces shape everyday life. A 2026 POYi winner, her photographs have appeared in... read more

Christopher Meerdo is Assistant Professor of AI in the Visual Arts at The Ohio State University. His sculptural, image, and film work engages data archives, computational processes, digital forensics, synthetic media, and machine learning. He... read more

Gail Mezey does Commercial and Film Project Management. She produces, location scouts, and casts. Helped helped establish the first film commission in Columbus under former Mayor Michael Coleman, and the Columbus Area Freelance Forum, a... read more

Mozhdeh Moazenzadeh Ghanatghestani

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

Flame: Fragments of Self Across Borders

I am Mozhdeh Moazenzadeh, an Iranian photographer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator pursuing an MFA in Photography + Integrated Media at Ohio University. My work explores the intersections of memory, embodiment, migration, and collective identity through... read more