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Catalyst for Exchange 2026 Call for Participants

Society for Photographic Education   /   Deadline: 07/31/25

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Solicitation for Presenters and Contributors to Session Chair Panels
Catalyst for Exchange
63rd Annual SPE National Conference
March 19-21,
Courtland Grand Hotel, Atlanta, GA

Submission Window: June 15 - August 15, 2025

SPE is seeking a broad representation of imagemakers, historians, theorists, curators, technicians, and others who can expand the scope of SPE's conversation in Catalyst for Exchange, the upcoming national conference in Atlanta, GA. Click download the call to see the session descriptions.

How to Apply

Go to SPE's Slideroom portal and:

Please review the session(s) that best align with your body of work and that you would like to contribute to.

Select up to three sessions that best showcase or fit your research or a single body of work.

Submit 10 images (or attachments or links that support your research or work).

Submit a Bio (150 character count).

Submit an Abstract (2000 character count).

(Optional) Briefly describe how you see your work relating to the session(s) you have chosen to apply for.

Fees

12.00

Considerations

The following sessions and session chairs have been reviewed and accepted for the upcoming conference, and we would like to include your voice in the discussion. We are seeking 3-5 participants per sessionl, including the session chair. Please review the following list and consider applying to be a part of this exciting programming. Click download the call to see the session descriptions.


The following list represents the Session Titles/Session Chairs:

Camera-Making As Photographic Practice: Chris Fraser

Libraries and Archives: Catalysts or Cloisters for Photographic Education?: Deborah Hollis

A Lens on the Underground: How the DIY Punk Community Self-Documented a History: John Rash

Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity: Ashley Kauschinger

After the Glut - Photobook Publishing in the Age of Plenty: J Carrier

The Archive as a Photographic Tool: Kayla Holdgreve

Climate Resilience in the American South: Jeremy Bolen & Allison Grant

Place as assemblage: expansive methods in documentary practice: Leslie Grant & Briar Pine

Science as Art/Art as Science: Areca Roe

Photography as a space for memory, diaspora, and evolving narratives of identity: Lali Khalid & Ricardo Rodriguez

Navigating the Polycrisis: DM Witman

Materiality and Response-ability: Mona Borzogi

Cut Time: Collage and the Afterlives of Photographs: Jason Reblando

Photography as Invocation: Mysticism, Gender, and the Act of Self-Authorization: Nika McKagen

Witching Hour: Stephanie Dowda DeMer

Reflecting the Times: Image-Making and Education in the Shadow of Genocide: Christophe Katrib

Reciprocity Reframed: Co-Creating in the Light of Belonging: Jessica Labatte

Reframing Collegiate Photography Education: Robert Dickes

Your Administrator & You: Libby Rowe

Interdepartmental Collaboration in Image Making: Noah Thompson

New Paradigms in Portraiture: June T Sanders & Clara DeWeese

Reframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography: Lindsay Godin

An Unfixed Pilgrimage: Vulnerability, Kinship & Healing through Collaboration: Sara Winston & Jared Ragland

Social Practice: Navigating Academia: Ken Marchionno

Fold, Copy, Repeat: Paper Cuts, The SPE Zine Swap Panel Discussion: Hillerbrand + Magsamen

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