Contributor Bios

AD Coleman
 A. D. Coleman (Allan Douglass Coleman) is an independent American critic, historian, educator, and curator of photography and photo-based art, and a widely published commentator on new digital technologies. He has published 8 books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Aimee Tomasek
Aimee Tomasek’s first photographic essay was a 4-H photography project that was exhibited and won a blue ribbon at the Polk County Fair. The essay was a set of six color pictures mounted on bright green tag board with blue letters stating the title “How to Butcher a Rabbit.” Professor Tomasek is still making images that address the institution of the county fair. She considers herself to be a documentary photographer as well as a social commentator. Some of her interests are rooted in humor, some in more serious concepts; all of them address the simultaneous uniqueness and commonality of individuals. Professor Tomasek has taught how photographs are made, seen, and valued at Valparaiso University since 1996.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Ally Christmas
Ally Christmas is a visual artist currently living and working out of Grinnell, IA. Much of her work revolves around notions of selfhood, virtuality, and lived experience, and her hybrid practice involves a number of forms including digital video, still photography, tintypes, palladium prints, bookmaking, gifs, cinemagraphs, and installation. After earning her BA in Photography from the University of Virginia in 2013, Christmas worked at the school for another year as a recipient of the 5th Year Aunspaugh Fellowship. She is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education, from whom she received a Graduate Student Award in 2017 to attend their national conference. In 2018, Christmas received her MFA in Photo/Video from the University of Georgia, and she is currently teaching video art and photography courses at Grinnell College as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Studio Art. Other fun facts: She loves taking long walks with her dogs Dresden & Murphy, everything Twin Peaks, sparkling water, and reading every book she can get her hands on.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Alyssa Maurer           
Alyssa Maurer – University of Cincinnati School of Design, Art, & Architecture and planning.
Alyssa Maurer is a multidisciplinary artist working in the Cincinnati area. Her work often explores contemporary issues through individual concepts. Exploring trends in social media, marginalized topics, and global issues, her work dismantles the facade of images used collectively. Utilizing techniques associated with collage and composite, she explores these topics by taking or appropriating associated imagery. The final work is then the reinterpreted, juxtaposed object of familiar significance. Viewers may recognize images, objects, or symbols hidden within Maurer's work. Both collage and composite imagery rely heavily on composition strategies, project vision, and the willingness to cut and move throughout. She has always enjoyed the idea of taking something old and reconstructing it to look contemporary. Most of her work has challenged this idea by taking on concepts concerning global warming, narcissism, and marginalization. These concepts aren’t new, and by way of cut and paste technique, Maurer is not only remaking, but uncovering the missing dialogue between issue and onlooker.
                                                                                                                                                    
Ana Mireles                                                                                                               
Photographer and Artistic Researcher          
I started my journey with a two-year photography course in Mexico City, my hometown. After that I realized that the technique is not enough if you have nothing to say, so I decided to take a degree in Cultural Studies and Management of Cultural Heritage from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. Later I went to the University of Amsterdam to do a specialist in Art Research where I focused on creating identity through image in social media. I visited and worked in Mexico, Paessi Bassi and Italy; nations where I also participated in various exhibitions and cultural projects.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Andre Kertesz
 André Kertész was born in Budapest in 1894 and studied at the Academy of Commerce until he bought his first camera in 1912. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and in 1925 had one of his photographs published on the cover of Erdekes Ujsay. That same year, he moved to Paris, where he did freelance work for many European publications, including Vu, Le Matin, Frankfurter Illustrierte, Die Photographie, La Nazione Firenze, and The Times of London. He bought his first 35-millimeter camera, a Leica, in 1928, and his innovative work with it on the streets of Paris was extremely influential. In 1936, he came to the United States, and began freelancing for Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, and House & Garden, among other mass-circulation magazines. Eventually, and until 1962, he worked under contract to Condé Nast. Between 1963 and his death, his independently produced photographs became more widely accessible, and Kertész became one of the most respected photographers in America. His work was the subject of many publications and exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and at the Museum of Modern Art, and a major retrospective, Of Paris and New York, at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his many honors and awards were a Guggenheim Fellowship and admission to the French Legion of Honor. Kertész's work had widespread and diverse effects on many photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Brassaï, who counted him as a mentor during the late 1920s and early 1930s. His personal work in the 1960s and 1970s inspired countless other contemporary photographers. Kertész combined a photojournalistic interest in movement and gesture with a formalist concern for abstract shapes; hence his work has historical significance in all areas of postwar photography.
 
Andrew Fingerman – CEO Photoshelter
Andrew is responsible for growing the PhotoShelter user base, ensuring members are getting the most from the service, and hosting the annual company BBQ. He served for four years as the company's VP of Marketing. He was previously a Senior Product Manager with OPEN, the small business team at American Express, handling customer marketing for the Centurion, Platinum, Gold and Green charge cards. Earlier in his career, Andrew held a variety of marketing, public relations and consulting roles, starting with political campaign management. Andrew holds an MBA from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, a BA from University of Michigan. Andrew frequently photographs his two kids, and anything he cooks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Andru Stone (Stone Deers)
My name is Andrew Stone, and I'm a 19 year old self-taught photographer and artist from Moorhead, Minnesota. Growing up my father enjoyed taking photos, so it became very intriguing to me that someone could capture a moment with just the press of a button. As I've gotten older, getting my first camera ever in the fall of 2017, I've discovered that photography is more than just "pressing a button". To me it's about capturing the beauty and essence of a moment, all held within a single frame. There is a story behind every photo, and for that I enjoy photography, Art, specifically drawing & illustration, is also a great passion of mine. From the age of 3, I always had a pencil and paper in front of me. From church bulletins, to school exams, I always found myself drawing on just about anything I could get my hands on! Bottom line is, I love to create! I believe it's what we were made to do!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Andy Mattern
Andy Mattern’s recent work engages photography’s aesthetic conventions and physical materials as subject matter. Since 2015, he has served as Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. His work is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Tweed Museum of Art, and others. He is represented by Elizabeth Houston Gallery in New York                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Angela Faris Belt
Educator, Author, and Fine Art Photographer
I AM AN ARTIST, AUTHOR AND EDUCATOR.  I live at 9,500-foot on a mountainside abutting national forest land in Colorado's Front Range, with my husband Dave and three other creatures—Bodhi the Wonder Dog, and cats Luna and Siva. Our neighbors are elk, deer, fox, coyotes, bears and mountain lions. I am a practicing artist and educator; in my off-time I build stone walls, hike, snowshoe, and remove trees for bark beetle-killed mitigation. My artwork is influenced by nature writers, Buddhist philosophy, a unique multi-cultural heritage, and a lifetime closely observing nature; it centers on relationships between humankind and the natural world. It also examines photographic media's phenomenological relationship to these concerns through the physics of time, the balance between light energy and sensitivity to it, as well as chemical interaction. I utilize the entire range of photographic media from historic to digital; my decisions regarding media are intended to underscore the content and concepts I'm focused on for the particular body of work. My work is internationally exhibited, held in corporate and private collections, and has received fellowship and award recognition. I license images and produce commission artwork. I am represented by Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver. I authored the textbook, The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images, (Focal Press). I lecture and offer workshops on its themes surrounding photographic language. I've been Contributor-at-Large for American Photo Magazine, and write critical essays on photography. The second edition of Elements is available here. I have taught photography at institutions including the University of Michigan, Antioch College, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Currently I serve as Program Chair of Studio Art & Art History at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, CO, and oversee its Photography Area.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish American photographer noted for his unmanipulated nude self-portraits in the landscape. Born in Helsinki in 1945, he moved with his family to America in 1951. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he later attended Wagner College on Staten Island, majoring in English. After five years in the advertising business as a Madison Avenue copywriter, he discovered photography working on the Minolta camera account. “What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera,” was the turning-point headline he wrote in 1970. A year later, studying with John Benson at the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, he began his self-portrait work. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Currently he is Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is also docent and visiting professor at the University of Art & Design Helsinki and École d’Art Appliqués in Vevey, Switzerland.                                                                                                                                                                                   
Arnold Newman        
Arnold Newman was born March 3, 1918 in New York City.  He was raised and attended schools in Atlantic City, N.J. and Miami Beach, FL. He studied art under a scholarship at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL from 1936 to 1938. He died in New York City on June 6, 2006. Generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the environmental portrait, he is also known for his still life and abstract photography, and he is considered as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. Newman began his career in photography in 1938 working at chain portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and West Palm Beach, and immediately began working in abstract and documentary photography on his own. In June of 1941, Beaumont Newhall of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Alfred Stieglitz “discovered” him, and he was given an exhibit with Ben Rose at the A.D. Gallery in September. There he began working on experimental portraiture, developing an approach that is widely influential in portrait photography today. In June of 1942, he returned home to Miami Beach, FL because of the war. In 1945 his Philadelphia Museum of Art one-man exhibit, “Artists Look Like This,” attracted nationwide attention.  Well established, he moved to New York in 1946 and opened his studio and became a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP.) Newman’s new approach to portraiture began its influence through key publications in America and abroad.  Exhibits and purchases of his work by major museums quickly followed. In 1949, he married Augusta Rubenstein, and they had two sons, Eric, born 1950, and David, 1952. His wife died in 2009. They are survived by their two sons and four grandchildren. 
 
Arthur Fields
Arthur Fields completed an Master of Fine Arts in Photography in May of 2011 at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. He earned a BFA in Digital Imaging and Photography at Washington University in St. Louis in 2008.  While maintaining a love for abstraction and the portrait; Arthur's current photographic work deals with self-image and technology relationships. Arthur is a board member of two photographic arts organizations: Ticka-Arts and The Texas Photographic Society. He also is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education, where he serves as Student Volunteer Coordinator of the SPE National Conference. With backgrounds in training and development, and graphic design, his academic research concentrates on using popular social media such as Instagram and Tumblr in the classroom.  Arthur is an Assistant Professor of Art and currently teaches photography and runs the Shircliff Gallery, at Vincennes University in Vincennes, IN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Barbara Jo Revelle
Photographer, film/video maker, installation and public artist.
She is a Professor and the Director of the Photography Area at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she served as Director of the School of Art and Art History from 1996-2000.  She was Director of the Photography and Electronic Media Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for 13 years prior to moving to Florida. Revelle has taught art making in many places around the country for more than 30 years, including San Francisco Art Institute, UCLA, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Arizona State University and N.Y. State University College in Buffalo.  Revelle has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 130 group and 35 solo shows including shows in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Japan, Mexico, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia and England. Revelle’s work is owned by 41 public collections here and abroad including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, France, the Eikoh Hosoe Collection, Tokyo, Japan, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her work has received critical attention in Art Forum, Z Magazine, Ten/8, Art Week, Afterimage, the New Art Examiner, Rhizome, Leonardo, and many other journals, as well as many important books including Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, published by Routledge with the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Revelle has been the recipient of 31 grants and fellowships including a major NEA.  In 1991 she completed a two-city block long photo-based, computer generated tile mural - “A People’s History of Colorado”, one of the largest public art murals in the world.  Since that time she has completed five other major photo-based public art projects around the country.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Bill Barrett                                                                                                                             
Bio to follow
                                                                                                                                               
BJ Cary           
This is my blog supporting Cary On Photography where you will read about some of the behind the scenes information about how I produce my photographs. I’ll share with you some of my processes, techniques, and stories from the making of my photographs including on location and in the darkroom. Since Cary On Photography also has a mission to contribute to the promotion and protection of our wilderness places, I’ll also be sharing my donations and information about who I’m supporting and why. When I can share articles related to photography or conservation, I will. Both of these things are important to me, so I want to be able to share them with you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Brian Matiash
My name is Brian Matiash. I am a professional photographer, published author, and podcaster based in St. George, UT. I specialize in fusing landscape & travel photography with experiential storytelling and practical instructing to help others grow creatively. I’ve spent the better part of a decade educating, empowering and inspiring photographers all around the world with my tutorials, videos, and stories. Furthermore, I use my years providing social media and content strategy for some of the world’s largest companies to develop and execute on a variety of marketing campaigns successfully and authentically. Finally, I am proud to host the No Name Photo Show, one of the most popular photography podcasts in iTunes! I am proud to closely partner with some of the world’s best photography and technology companies, all of whom play vital roles in my creative workflow. I am a Zeiss Lens Ambassador, a Shimoda Pro Team member, and a member of G-Technology’s G-Team. I also contribute regularly to a variety of photography publications, both online and in print.
 
Brooke Shaden – Fine Art     
Brooke explores the darkness and light in people, and her work looks at that juxtaposition. As a self-portrait artist, she photographs herself and becomes the characters of dreams inspired by a childhood of intense imagination and fear. Being the creator and the actor, Brooke controls her darkness and confronts those fears. After studying films for years in college, she realized her love of storytelling was universal. She started photography then in 2008, excited to create in solitude and take on character roles herself. Brooke works from a place of theme, often gravitating toward death and rebirth or beauty and decay. Ultimately, her process is more discovery than creation. She follows her curiosity into the unknown to see whom her characters might become. Brooke believes the greatest gift an artist has is the ability to channel fears, hopes and experience into a representation of one's potential. While her images come from a personal place of exploration, the goal in creating is not only to satisfy herself; her greatest wish is to show others a part of themselves. Art is a mirror for the creator and the observer. Brooke's passion is storytelling, and her life is engulfed in it. From creating self-portraits and writing to international adventures and motivational speeches, she wants to live a thousand lives in one. She keeps her curiosity burning to live a truly interesting story. Self Description: Intensely anxious, powerful little creative soul. Favorite Memory: Flying into the sky before she lost her wings at the age of 5. Greatest Achievement: Starting The Light Space, a photography school for survivors of human trafficking in India and now Thailand. Greatest Fear: Whales. Favorite Book: Dune by Frank Herbert.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Caroline Jensen – Fine Art    
I am Caroline! I am a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a creative artist. While I adore making all sorts of photographic art, my biggest passion is guiding other people to success, whatever that may be. If you love digging deep and want to make the art you were meant to create, you are in the right place. I love nothing more than watching creatives fearlessly express themselves through photography and its many offshoots. My images strive to always take one step out of reality, be that digital painting, moving photos (cinemagraphs, time-lapse, or stop-motion) or creative editing. I am always looking to expand my repertoire of techniques. Photography can be therapeutic in many ways and making the connection between this art form and stress relief is a huge part of my work. I don’t only care about the work you create, but how you feel making it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Catherine Edelman – Owner Catherine Edelman Gallery
Bio to follow

Chase Jarvis – Professional   
Chase Jarvis is well known as a visionary photographer, director, and fine artist with a consistent ambition to break down the barriers between new- and traditional media, fine- and commercial art. As a photographic master, Chase has won numerous awards from Prix de la Photographie de Paris, The Advertising Photographers of America, The International Photography Awards, and numerous photographic trade magazine throughout the world. Photo District News (PDN) Magazine called Chase one of the top 30 most influential photographers of the past decade. Early in his career, Chase dabbled in filmmaking, directing and producing short films (winning recognition at select film festivals across the country), but this passion was resurrected in 2008 when Chase launched the world’s first HDdSLR for Nikon. As literally the first artist in the world with access to this technology, Chase was propelled into the limelight as a new “indie” directorial figurehead armed with these new cameras and others like it, as well as the creative chops that have helped defined a new era of filmmaking. As such, his career as a Director and Producer of commercials, short films and music videos has exploded in the last 2 years. Whether working on commercial or personal projects, the opportunity to work with some of the best brands of our time–Apple, Starbucks, Nike and others–with multi-platinum artists like Sarah Mclachlan and members of Pearl Jam–Chase has defined an aesthetic that’s all his own. In the Fine Art world, Chase has begun work with curators, museums, and foundations, as well as galleries in the USA, Europe and Middle East in and around work in mobile photography, “instant” and “live” worlds of creativity, and the interrelation of accessible art and popular culture. His most recent installation at the Ace Hotel NYC during an artist in residency drew international acclaim, as well as attention of curators from MOMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. In the lineage of Warhol, Basquiat, and Shepard Fairey, Jarvis has worked to elevate the nature of instant art, community collaboration and sharing of art while simultaneously democratizing its processes. Chase is also the creator of 3 books. Seattle 100, Portrait of a City which is the culmination of a 3 year project photographing cultural leaders in Seattle and combining those images with an ethnography of the city he calls home. Another book launched in 2007 titled simply Stevens Pass–the first book of its kind celebrating a single ski area. And last year’s hit book–part of an ‘ecosystem’ combined with an online site and iPhone app–called The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You was released in the Fall 2009 to widespread media acclaim, and was featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, the Discover Channel, Fox, CBC Canada, as well as in The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and numerous other media channels in broadcast, print, and online. His iPhone app “Best Camera” completely re-shaped the photo app paradigm as the first app that allowed users to share images via social channels from within the interface of the app – a feature that is now considered requisite. Wired Magazine and Macworld both called Best Camera a “Top 20 app of the year” out of more than 300,000 apps online by, and was also highlighted by Apple CMO Phil Schiller in a New York Times feature article, calling it a “must have” app along with Facebook, ESPN, and CNN. In addition to his creative pursuits, Chase has many interests. He is a widely sought after presenter and has been a Keynote speaker on 5 continents. His invites include those ranging from Fortune 500 companies, to top universities, to the prestigious TEDx conferences held worldwide. He is an “accidental” social media maven with millions of subscribers, fans, and followers. He is also an entrepreneur–having recently started one of the world’s fastest growing online education companies, creativeLIVE.com, in March 2010–and is a gifted leader, volunteer, husband and uncle.
 
Christopher Schneberger      
Christopher Schneberger (b. 1970) is an artist/photographer in Chicago, IL.  His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.  His recent exhibitions include the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, Dorsky Projects in New York, Geocarto International in Hong Kong, the 3D Center for Art and Photography in Portland, and Printworks Gallery in Chicago, where he is represented.  He is twice recipient of an Illinois Arts Council individual artist grant. He is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia College Chicago, and at the College of DuPage.  He is a founding member of Perspective Gallery, a non-profit gallery of photography in Evanston, Illinois, where he also serves on the Board of Directors.  He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Florida where he studied with Evon Streetman and Jerry Uelsmann, and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University where he studied with Jeffrey Wolin.  He is the drummer for the band, Moon.  He was born and raised in Miami, Florida.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey is an artist whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. Rich in implied narrative, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the natural environment, and offers explorations of belonging and familial relationships. She is the author of three sold-out books, You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night and You an Orchestra You a Bomb. Her first solo museum show was held at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo in 2012 in conjunction with the release of her first monograph, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012). The book is a personal exploration of love, loss, longing and belonging. You Look At Me Like An Emergency sold out in all editions and was selected by Photo District News as one of the best books of 2012. It was widely reviewed by international publications, including The Independent and The Boston Globe. Her second monograph, Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015) was released to critical acclaim from Vogue and The New York Times, among others. The book is an exploration of familial love and a sense of place in the natural world, with seasons figuring prominently as metaphor. She was featured in The New York Times in an article titled “Why Can’t Great Artists Be Mothers?” rejecting the stereotype that motherhood and artistic dedication are at odds. Harvey’s third monograph, You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017) centers on our relationship with life itself, capturing moments of awe and sacred seconds that convey our fragile present. It was applauded in a number of international publications, including in The New York Times, BBC, Vice, New York Magazine, and Creative Review. The photographs and artist books of Cig Harvey have been widely exhibited and remain in the permanent collections of major museums and collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Cig has been a nominee for John Gutmann fellowship, the Santa Fe Prize, and Prix Pictet, and a finalist for the BMW Prize, the Karl Lagerfield Collection at Paris Photo, the Clarence John Laughlin Award and The Taylor Messing Photographic Portrait Prize. In 2017 Cig was awarded the prestigious 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award from Center and in 2018 she was named the 2018 Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography award. Cig’s solo show , Eating Flowers, is currently at Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine, through October 31st, 2019. Cig Harvey is represented by Robert Mann Gallery in New York, Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston,  Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Dowling Walsh Gallery in Maine, Galleria del Cembalo in Rome, and Schlit Publishing in The Netherlands.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Cindy Sherman – Fine Art     
Cindy Sherman was born January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. In 1977, she began work on "Complete Untitled Film Stills," a series of 69 photographs and one of her best-known works; her black-and-white photographs challenged cultural stereotypes supported by the media. In the 1980s, Sherman used color film and large prints, and focused more on lighting and facial expression. She returned to ironic commentary in the 1990s, directing the dark comedy Office Killer in 1997. Three years later, in 2000, she released a series of photographs of women with exaggerated attributes—a representation of social role-playing and sexual stereotypes.
 
Clara Lieu (Rhode Island School of Design)  
I am an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Partner at ART PROF, a free, online educational platform for visual arts.My studio practice uses drawing, printmaking, and sculpture as means towards exploring the extremes of human emotion, using the human figure and face as a vehicle for expression. I have exhibited my work at the International Print Center New York, the Danforth Museum of Art, the Currier Museum of Art, and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. I have received artist grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the Puffin Foundation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Clare Benson 
Clare Benson is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, currently based in New York. In 2014/2015, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in northern Sweden at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. Her book, The Shepherd’s Daughter, was published in 2017, by Photolucida, in receipt of the Critical Mass Book Award. Her work has been featured in exhibitions, screenings, and publications across the US and internationally. Benson earned her Master of Fine Arts at University of Arizona in Tucson, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Central Michigan University.
 
Cole Thompson – Fine Art
At 14 years of age, I knew I was destined to be a fine art photographer. While hiking in Rochester, NY I stumbled across the ruin of an old home that George Eastman had once owned. This piqued my interest and I read his biography. I was fascinated with photography and before I had completed the book, before I had even taken a photograph or seen a print develop in the darkroom, I knew that I was going to be a photographer. For the next 10 years photography was my complete existence, if I wasn’t taking pictures or working in the darkroom, I was reading every book and looking at every image I could find. There was nothing in my life but photography. Even at this early age I found myself drawn to a particular style of image, one that would literally cause a physical reaction in me. They were dark images created by Adams, Weston, Bullock and others. I knew that I was destined to create such images. I am often asked, “Why black and white?” I think it’s because I grew up in a black-and-white world. Television, movies and the news were all in black and white. My heroes were in black and white and even the nation was segregated into black and white. My images are an extension of the world in which I grew up. For me color records the image, but black and white captures the feelings that lie beneath the surface. My art has appeared in many exhibitions, publications and has received numerous awards. And yet my resume does not list those accomplishments, why? In the past I’ve considered those accolades as the evidence of my success, but I now think differently. My success is no longer measured by the length of my resume, but rather by how I feel about the art that I create. While I do enjoy exhibiting, seeing my work published and meeting people who appreciate my art, this is an extra benefit of creating, but not success itself. I believe that the best success is achieved internally, not externally. Some have asked about my qualifications given my non-traditional resume and I answer: “My images are my qualifications, nothing else matters.”  I was raised in a home with no exposure to art or music and I came away convinced that I was born without a creative gene.  That’s part of the reason I pursued photography, I thought that by becoming a great technician I could compensate for my lack of creative abilities.  Fortunately I learned that I do have those abilities; that they were simply undiscovered and atrophied from lack of use. I also came away from my experience with a strong conviction that every single person has these creative abilities. Guaranteed!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Crystal Tursich
Often drawing on memory and emotion, Crystal Tursich's diaristic work hovers between staged self-portraits, constructed moments, and the softly focused vignettes of plastic and toy cameras. Her most recent body of work, In Silence, deals with loss and illustrates the lingering complex emotions following such an experience. Crystal Tursich is an artist based in Columbus, Ohio. In recent years, her work has been included in exhibitions in Wichita, Kansas; Murray, Kentucky; Peoria, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio. Tursich is the 2019 EMERGE Fellowship Award winner for Midwest Center for Photography. She is a member of Roy G Biv Galley, Society for Photographic Education, Houston Center for Photography, and Filter Photo. Tursich currently serves as an Upper School Art Teacher at Columbus Academy. Previously, she has held positions as a Lecturer at The Ohio State University and an Adjunct Instructor at Columbus College of Art & Design. She holds an MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design and a BFA from Adrian College.                                                                                                                                                     
Dana Fritz
Through photography Dana Fritz investigates the ways we shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes. Dana Fritz is a Professor in the School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  She holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Arizona State University. Her honors include an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, a Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange to Japan, a Society for Photographic Education Imagemaker Award, and Juror’s Awards in national exhibitions. Fritz’s work has been exhibited in over 80 venues including the Phoenix Art Museum, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Sheldon Museum of Art in the U.S. International venues include Museum Belvédère in The Netherlands, Château de Villandry in France, Xi’an Jiaotong University Art Museum in China, and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Place M, and Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Arts in Japan. Fritz’s work has been published in numerous exhibition catalogs including IN VIVO: the nature of nature (Noorderlicht House of Photography,) Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, and Grasslands/Separating Species. It was also featured in print magazines Harper’s, Orion, STUDIO, and Photography Quarterly and the French daily newspaper Liberation. Her portfolios Garden Views, Terraria Gigantica, and Views Removed were selected for the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project from 2004-06, 2008-12, and 2015-21 respectively. Her work is held in several collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, Pennsylvania; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Weeks Gallery Global Collection of Photography at Jamestown Community College, New York; the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art; and Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris. Fritz has been awarded artist residencies at locations known for their significant cultural histories and gardens or unique landscapes: Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California; Château de Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France; Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona; PLAYA in Summer Lake, Oregon; Cedar Point Biological Station, Nebraska; and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming. University of New Mexico Press published her monograph, Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass, in 2017.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
David Alan Harvey
Photographer, founder and editor of Burn magazine          
David Alan Harvey's photographs spark the human psyche. His books “Cuba” (National Geographic, 1999) and “Divided Soul” (Phaidon, 2003) capture the effects of the blood and sweat of a cultural migration into the Americas. “Living Proof” (powerHouse Books, 2007) explores hip-hop culture. His 2012 award-winning book “Based on a True Story” published by BurnBooks broke new ground in photo book narrative form and design. His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Biblioteque Nacional in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among other venues. Some of his most prolific essays have appeared in NatGeo since 1973. Current projects include “Off For A Family Drive” to be published 2019 and “OBX” his ongoing work on a disappearing barrier island. As a popular mentor for young photographers, Harvey founded Burn Magazine, an award-winning online and in print journal for emerging photographers. He is currently the publisher of BurnBooks, a press specializing in limited edition art books. Harvey is a member of the legendary Magnum Photos cooperative. David lives in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
David duChemin – Travel      
I’m David duChemin. I’m a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and international workshop leader whose nomadic and adventurous life fuels my fire to create and share. Now based on Vancouver Island, Canada, my life is spent chasing compelling images on all 7 continents and teaching others to see, photograph, and get the most from, this astonishing life. When on assignment  my one goal is to create powerful images that convey the hope and dignity of children, the vulnerable and oppressed for the international NGO community. Past clients within that community include World Vision, Save the Children, and the BOMA Project. My travels have taken me through 55+ counties to date, though I prefer to experience a place deeply and often rather than see everything once and skim the surface. I’ve worked through winters in Russia and Mongolia, a summer on the Amazon, and spent time among nomads in the Indian Himalayan and remote Northern Kenya. My assignment work has taken me to Ecuador, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Ethiopia, Malawi, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh, among others, and I’ve pursued personal work  in places like Iceland, Antarctica, Tunisia, Cuba, Vietnam, Kenya, and Italy, among others. Drawing on a previous career in comedy, and a love for storytelling and communication, I make myself available on a limited basis for keynote presentations and training on photography, creativity and entrepreneurial topics, but give me a microphone and an audience and I’ll talk about almost anything. Not one to speak in the third person without feeling a little weird about it, here’s what my previous PR materials said:  “A driven artist, creative professional, entrepreneur and life-long adventurer, David educates and inspires through stunning visuals and hilarious travel stories, and insights, from a life spent outside and abroad.” I’m told I live up to and exceed those expectations. My books about the craft and art of photography, many of them best-sellers, much to the shock of my Grade 11 English teacher, have been translated into a dozen languages, and are applauded for their humanity, approachability, and a focus on vision and creativity over gear and the pixel-peeping our industry is so prone to. You can find my latest book, The Soul of the Camera, as well as Within The Frame, The Visual Toolbox, and A Beautiful Anarchy all on Amazon.
 
David Ondrik – Artist, Educator, and Writer
David Ondrik is an artist, educator, and writer. He received his BFA from the University of New Mexico in 1998. For ten years he taught visual art in public high schools and in 2009 he achieved a National Board Certification for Early Adolescent / Young Adult Visual Art Instruction. His artwork has been exhibited across the country, appears in numerous publications, and is in the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and multiple New Mexico public art collections. He received his MFA in photography from Indiana University in 2017 and is currently a Lecturer in Photography at Indiana University.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Debra Klomp Ching, Klompching Gallery      
Debra Klomp Ching is the co-owner of the Klompching Gallery. In addition to owning and operating the gallery, she is a freelance consultant, writer, curator and educator. Her writing has been published in Magenta Magazine, photo-eye Booklist, (re)collect, Nahtsellen, At Length and PDN. She was a Guest Editor for Photography Quarterly (issue No. 99) and was the commissioning Editor/Publisher of (re)collect - Jonathan Shaw (2006). In 2010 she co-curated (with Darren Ching), The Architecture of Space, an exhibition of contemporary U.S. photography for the Flash Forward Festival (Toronto). As a private consultant, she provides creative and professional advice to photographers intending to or working within a fine art context, and advises collectors on the acquisition of contemporary photography. She is an experienced portfolio reviewer, having attended several notable photography review festivals such as Rhubarb-Rhubarb, FotoFest, Review Santa Fe, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, New York Times Portfolio Review Day and Photolucida. She has lectured on the History of Photography at the University of Derby (UK) and Coventry University (UK), and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Debra Klomp Ching holds a BA (Hons) in Photographic Studies and an MA in Critical History and Theory of Photography.                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Dennis Keely – Artist, Photographer, Teacher and Writer.
His photographs have been exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and he is published internationally in books and studies concerning urban circumstance.  He has works in the permanent collections at LACMA, MOCA, the J. Paul Getty Center Trust, and Conservation and Research Institutes and was commissioned by the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. In 2016 he was chosen by Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) to exhibit his portraits of musicians in a solo exhibition entitled, “25 Years of Music.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Dick and Barbara Waltenberry – Event Photography          
Event Photographers Dick and Barbara Waltenberry specialize in photographing horse competitions around the United States. We've been photographing and videotaping NRHA events since 1986                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Don Werthmann
"Don Werthmann is a Professional Photography Faculty member in the Digital Media Arts Department at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ranging across thirty years his career is immersed in photography and education. His professional teaching career, spanning over twenty years, includes the film & digital eras, augmented with web design & development, and lighting for film & video. He is a Department Co-Chair of the Digital Media Arts Department that is inclusive of six technical and creative disciplines: Audio | 3D Animation | Graphic Design | Photography | Video | Web Development. As a Michigan native, his passion and appreciation for various forms of visual art and art history emerged when he was a teenager, which eventually led him to earning B.F.A. and M.A. degrees in Photography from Wayne State University, in Detroit. Immediately after obtaining his undergraduate degree in the mid-1980s, he worked as a freelance camera and lighting assistant in commercial, automotive studios in the Detroit area, producing national-level print advertisements & catalogs for many well-renowned auto companies. In the early-1990s Don discovered a strong calling to transition into a career in photo education, which led him to spending over eight years at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His tutelage under some of the most influential names in the photographic industry took incremental steps from student work-study, to teaching-assistant to being the Operations Manager for six years. Don was an instructor of two different, weeklong workshops for four years as well. During this pivotal phase of his career, Don learned to complement his instructional designs and learning outcomes with the organizational strategies and expectations practiced in the commercial sector of the photography industry. The opening of the new century demanded earning a graduate degree and a simultaneous transition from film to digital capture workflow technologies. The combination of all these professional credentials uniquely position Don to teach with depth, the widest range of photography courses amongst his colleagues, which is evident in a list consisting of fifteen course titles ranging from beginner to advanced to mentoring to study abroad opportunities. As an artist, Don is a practitioner in the genre of lyric documentary as his images are infused with curiosity, the lyricism of everyday life, and a naturally unfolding tapestry of events presented to the camera. He also enjoys producing expressive portraiture in the studio and on-location.       
                                                                                                                                               
Eli Cambell - Student SUNI
Bio to follow
 
Elizabeth Gilbert – Author
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969, and grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm. She attended New York University, where she studied political science by day and worked on her short stories by night. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction. These explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book – a short story collection called PILGRIMS, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and which moved Annie Proulx to call her “a young writer of incandescent talent”. During these early years in New York, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. She was a three-time finalist for The National Magazine Award, and an article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie COYOTE UGLY. In 2000, Elizabeth published her first novel, STERN MEN (a story of brutal territory wars between two remote fishing islands off the coast of Maine) which was a New York Times Notable Book. In 2002, Elizabeth published THE LAST AMERICAN MAN – the true story of the modern day woodsman Eustace Conway. This book, her first work of nonfiction, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir EAT PRAY LOVE, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide. In 2010, EAT PRAY LOVE was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2010, Elizabeth published a follow-up to EAT PRAY LOVE called COMMITTED—a memoir which explored her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. The book immediately became a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was also received with warm critical praise. As Newsweek wrote, COMMITTED “retains plenty of Gilbert’s comic ruefulness and wide-eyed wonder”, and NPR called the book “a rich brew of newfound insight and wisdom.” Her 2013 novel THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS is a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration. O Magazine named it “the novel of a lifetime”, and the Wall Street Journal called it “the most ambitious and purely-imagined work of (Gilbert’s) twenty-year career.” THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS was a New York Times Bestseller, and Janet Maslin called it “engrossing…vibrant and hot-blooded.” The novel was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New York Times, O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker.” In 2015, she published BIG MAGIC: CREATIVE LIVING BEYOND FEAR—a book that encapsulates the joyful spirit of adventure and permission that Elizabeth has always brought to her work and to her life. Her latest novel is CITY OF GIRLS — a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s. It will be published in June of 2019. Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else.              
                                                                                                                                           
Emmett Sandberg     
Emmett is a practicing artist and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where I teach Foundations, Understanding Arts, and Art Education courses. He is also Director of the Gail Floether-Steinhilber Art Gallery located in the UW O’s Reeve Memorial Union. The gallery exhibits national and local artists and offers a presentation space for the research results of scholarly projects. He also facilitate art workshops that are developed for diverse groups with little or no art experience. Activities focus on decision-making and include a post-creation accounting of the individuals’ creative processes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Frank Brown – Ohio Wesleyan
Bio to follow                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Frank Geiser
In Paris in 1987 He met fashion photographer Rudy Klein with whom he learned photography . He became assistant to photographers such as Daniel RIBIERE (advertising - still life) Gilles Tapie (Fashion), Mickael FOSS (advertising - still life.) In 1989 He launched and directed many pictures for various modeling agency ( Marilyn - Metropolitan - Karin models - Elite ...) and for various magazines - reportages - advertising agency and fashion catalogs. In 1993 leaving to the United States He works in the fashion and advertising photography industry in New York - Miami - Chicago - Detroit. Then in 1997, around the world on his Sailing Yacht all along his journey he realized many photography up to his arrival in Polynesia in 2000. Today he lives between Polynesia and France.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Gerald Slota   
Gerald Slota is a fine artist and photographer who has been widely exhibited across the US and abroad. He has had solo shows at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, and Langhans Galerie in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as been shown at Recontres D’ Arles in Arles, France. Slota is represented by the Robert Berman Gallery in LA, and his images have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Vice, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Discover, and Scientific America, as well as in BOMB, Blindspot, ARTNEWS, Art in America, and Aperture. He currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and has lectured at many institutions such as the International Center for Photography (ICP). Gerald Slota has garnered many awards including a Polaroid 20"x24" Grant, a MacDowell Artist Residency, and a Mid-Atlantic Fellowship Grant in 2001 and 2009. Most recently, he was commissioned for an 18'x18' mural on the Seminole Indian wars by the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Glenna Jennings
Associate Professor of Photography, University of Dayton
Glenna Jennings is an artist and educator whose work draws primarily from the history, theory and practice of photography. She completed her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego in 2010 and holds BAs in English and Spanish (Pepperdine), and a BFA in Photography (Art Center College of Design). She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Dayton’s Department of Art and Design, where she heads up the photography program. Jennings has exhibited widely throughout the US, China, Europe and Mexico, and her work resides in multiple public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and AMNUA Museum in Nanjing, China. She was featured in the 2010 California Biennial and the 2014 Ping Yao Photography Festival in China. Recognition of her work includes two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and a Peter McGrath Human Rights Fellowship. Jennings is a passionate educator whose teaching, research and service inform her dynamic practice of image-making, curating and socially-engaged creation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Greg Banks    
Greg Banks is a nationally shown photo-based artist and instructor, currently teaching at Appalachian State University. He received his MFA in photography at East Carolina in May 2017.  He received a B.A. in photography and a B.A. in fine art from Virginia Intermont College in 1998. In 2017, he was one of only seven artists chosen for the Light Factory’s Annuale 9. Greg’s work was among the top 5 most popular, on the online magazine “Don’t Take Pictures” in 2017.  Greg combines everything from iPhone images to historic 19th-century processes, gelatin silver printing, painting and digital printing. His current creative practice investigates family, folklore, memories, Appalachia, as well as history and religion.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Gregory Crewdson    
Gregory Crewdson was born in Brooklyn in 1962. Crewdson received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1985 and an M.F.A. in photography at Yale in 1988. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York and White Cube in London. Crewdson is recognized for his elaborately staged scenes of small town American life. His photographs have dramatic and cinematic qualities, and he often has an extensive support crew on site for proper staging and lighting. In describing his intentions, Crewdson states: “In all my pictures what I am ultimately interested in is that moment of transcendence or transportation, where one is transported into another place, into a perfect, still world. Despite my compulsion to create this still world, it always meets up against the impossibility of doing so. So, I like the collision between this need for order and perfection and how it collides with a sense of the impossible. I like where possibility and impossibly meet.” Crewdson's work has been included in many public collections, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A retrospective of his work from 1985–2005, was shown at major museums around Europe from 2005–08. Another exhibition of his work opened at the Kulturhuset Museum, Stockholm, in February 2011, followed by Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen and c/o Berlin, among others. Crewdson has received numerous awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Photography, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship and the Aaron Siskind Fellowship. Crewdson is Professor Adjunct in Graduate Photography at the Yale University School of Art and lives and works in New York.
 
 Larry Gawel – Artist and Professor
Larry Gawel is an Professor of Photography and the Photography Program Coordinator at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and an MFA from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994, both with concentrations in photography. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the Lux Center for the Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Truman State University, and College of St. Mary. In 2013 he was selected as an artist with the Lincoln Arts Council’s CSArt program for which he produced tintypes of the various plants and animals that he harvests from the land. In March 2008, he and his wife Dana Fritz, opened WorkSpace Gallery, a gallery exhibiting work by contemporary photographers who explore the photographic medium through notions of its past, present, and future. From 2012-2019, he served as Chairperson of the Society for Photographic Education’s Midwest Region.
 
Heather Stratton       
Heather Stratton is an artist-educator working in electronic and lens-based media. Her work is confessional in nature, focusing on themes of feminism, the memory ghost, ritual and repetition, and myth. Stratton's work is primarily focused in video, photography, experimental sound and installation. Before joining the photography and digital media faculty at the University of Kentucky’s School of Arts and Visual Studies, Stratton taught at the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kellogg Community College, and Kingman Museum in Battle Creek, Michigan. She worked for several years, in addition to academia, as a marketing and communications specialist with several area nonprofits in South Central Michigan. Stratton earned her M.F.A. in Photographic and Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her primary teaching focuses are analog and digital photography, video, and interdisciplinary media studies. Stratton’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2013 she traveled to Seoul, South Korea as an invited guest artist at Ewha Womans University and has given many presentations and lectures on her work across the United States.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Henry Horenstein      
Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher, and author since the 1970s. He studied history at the University of Chicago, and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Shoot What You Love (a memoir), Histories, Show, Honky Tonk, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography.  In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, and now Partners, which premiered recently at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Honey Lazar   
Honey Lazar lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.  She studied at The Cleveland Institute of Art and is a lifelong workshop student.  Selections of her work are in permanent collections at the Progressive Corporation, University Hospitals, and Southwest General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Her photographs have exhibited internationally, most recently in Malaga, Spain. Honey works on long-term projects for exhibition and publication. She photographs to immortalize loved ones, landscapes, and objects of desire and has recently published, Loving Aunt Ruth:  Recipes for a Life Well-Lived. Honey says she loves everything about photography especially the people she meets.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Jason D. Little - Professional 
Jason Little is a photographer, author and stock shooter. You can see Jason’s photography on his Website or his Instagram feed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Jean Baudrillard –  Indubitably, one of the most influential philosophers in the world
Jean Baudrillard was a French photographer, cultural theorist, provoking writer, political critic, and a sociologist. He was born in 1929 in the Northeastern city of France, Reims and died in March 2007. He wrote two hundred articles and twenty books, becoming one of the most dignified thinkers. During his high school education years, he studied pataphysics under Emmanuel Peillet, a professor of philosophy. He was the first from his family to go to a university. At the Sorbonne University, he learned German literature after studying the language. This gave him the opportunity to teach at many different schools in 1960s for six years. During his teaching experience, he published literature reviews and translated the works of Karl Marx, Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, Peter Weiss, Friedrich Engels, and Bertolt Brecht. While all the German bit was happening in his life, he began leaning towards the study of sociology. Once he had completed his doctoral dissertation, he started to teach the subject at the Université de Paris-X Nanterre. At this time, Jean Baudrillard was expressed as a visionary by Humphrey De Battenburge, a philosopher. Later on, Baudrillard transformed from being an assistant professor to an associate professor and finally a professor in Nanterre, Paris. The latter years of his career in teaching were spent at the Université de Paris-IX Dauphine when he went to Institut de Recherche et d’Information Socio-Économique in 1986. It was in Japan in 1973 that he received his first personal camera and this moment led him into being a photographer. No other theorists have described the major fissure involving modernism and postmodernism in a thorough way as Jean Baudrillard. He was distinctive in his practice and theories about photography. Just like he never admitted that he was a philosopher, he didn’t acknowledge himself as a photographer either, he just did things that became a reason for his popularity without any such intention. He took photography to a whole new level by raising a new mind-set and perception. He stripped the context and meaning away from the surroundings of an object and aimed to look at it in a more objective way – all that the object itself wants to make apparent. Baudrillard’s way of looking at things is no doubt highly unique. His photographs became an aspect of  discussion in some international and influential debates. The anecdote of Baudrillard’s photographic monographs were collected and assembled in a pamphlet which was fashioned by CAFA Art Museum. There was a reading area allotted at the 3A Gallery related to Baudrillard’s work. In his photography as well as writing, Jean Baudrillard had a clear consciousness of reality’s illusion becoming apparent through a cracked veil. A 1998 assignment, Sao Palo is a representation of his work. The photograph acts as a visual poem complimenting Baudrillard’s idea that reality is hidden and people only see the facade behind which reality hides. The photo displays a mysterious and incomprehensible world. The blank billboard in Las Vegas, 1996, is another work by Baudrillard that would surely confuse a lay man with no knowledge of what is being shown. The medium as in the billboard has nothing to say. A exhibition titled Vanishing Techniques comprised of almost fifty photos was a prevalent introduction of the works by Baudrillard after his death. The images on display were chosen by his wife.
 
Jeff Curto
I am Professor Emeritus of Photography at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where I taught from 1984 to 2014. I hold both a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Illinois Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Bennington College in Vermont.  Additionally, I  attended Ansel Adams’ last photography workshop in Carmel, California in 1983. Inspired by the potential for learning the workshop environment can foster, In 2009, I began leading annual photography workshops in Italy. My photographs of Italy have been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and are held in many public and private collections. In 2005, my work was featured in the prestigious LensWork magazine. I am the Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Society for Photographic Education and I am an Apple Distinguished Educator and a certified Apple Teacher.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Jeff Wall –Fine Art Photographer      
Jeff Wall (born Vancouver September 29 1946) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Jeff Wall received his MA from the University of British Columbia in 1970, with a thesis titled, "Berlin Dada and the Notion of Context," and did postgraduate work at the Courtauld Institute from 1970-73, where he studied with Manet expert T.J. Clark. Wall was assistant professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1974-75), associate professor at Simon Fraser University (1976-87) and taught for many years at the University of British Columbia. He has published essays on Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Roy Arden, Ken Lum, Stephen Balkenhol, On Kawara, and other contemporary artists. Many of these texts are collected in the New York Museum of Modern Art's recent, Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews (NY, 2007). Wall experimented with conceptual art while an undergraduate student at UBC, producing such works as monochrome paintings made of layers of transparent varnish directly applied to a gallery wall, and the photo/text composite Landscape Manual (UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1970), which was informed by his close study of the "magazine pieces" of artists like Dan Graham and Robert Smithson. Wall then made no art until 1977, when he produced his first backlit photo transparencies. Many of these pictures are staged and refer to the history of art and philosophical problems of representation. The photographs' compositions often allude to historical artists like Velázquez, Hokusai, and Édouard Manet, or to writers such as Franz Kafka, Yukio Mishima, and Ralph Ellison. Wall's work advances an argument for the necessity of pictorial art. Some of Wall's photographs are complicated productions involving cast, sets, crews and digital postproduction. They have been characterized as one-frame cinematic productions. Wall distinguishes between unstaged "documentary" pictures, like Still Creek, Vancouver, winter 2003, and "cinematographic" pictures, produced using a combination of actors, sets, and special effects, such as Overpass, 2001. His signature works are large transparencies mounted on light boxes; he says he conceived this format when he saw back-lit advertisements at bus stops during a trip between Spain and London. Since the mid-1990s, Wall has also made large scale black and white photographs, some of which were exhibited at Kassel's Documenta X, as well as smaller color prints. Mimic (1982) typifies Wall's cinematographic style. A 198 x 226 cm. colour transparency, it shows a white couple and an Asian man walking towards the camera. The sidewalk, flanked by parked cars and residential and light-industrial buildings, suggests a North American industrial suburb. The woman is wearing red shorts and a white top displaying her midriff; her bearded, unkempt boyfriend wears a denim vest. The Asian man is casual but well-dressed in comparison, in a collared shirt and slacks. As the couple overtake the man, the boyfriend makes an ambiguous but apparently obscene and racist gesture, holding his upraised middle finger close to the corner of his eye, "slanting" his eye in mockery of the Asian man's eyes. The picture resembles a candid shot that captures the moment and its implicit social tensions, but is actually a recreation of an exchange witnessed by the artist. Born, living, and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Wall has been a key figure in the city's vibrant arts scene for years. Early in his career, he helped define the so-called photoconceptualism paradigm for which Vancouver has become known; he published major essays on the work of his close colleagues and fellow Vancouverites Rodney Graham, Ken Lum and Ian Wallace, and enjoyed a short-lived stint in the Vancouver art rock band UJ3RK5. His tableaux very often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their generic backdrop. In 1996 Jeff Wall was to replace Bernd Becher as head professor of the photography department at the Düsseldorf Academy, but was confronted by a former Becher student who pointed a loaded gun at him. He immediately resigned. Jeff Wall is a contemporary artist, who has become well-known for his transparencies mounted on light boxes. He has also been involved with more traditional photographic projects. Wall depicts modern subject matter with reference to examples from the history of art. His work has been the focus of numerous well-received museum exhibits around the world. He lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Jen Dunham – Portraiture                 
I remember someone telling me to “fake it ’til you make it”. This was actually really helpful during those early portfolio building stages when I was pretty much sick to my stomach with every shoot. The more I acted like I knew what I was doing and was confident in myself, even if I was shaking on the inside, the more respect these clients had for me. With a lot of practice, it wasn’t really too long before I believed in myself which really helped me to grow as a photographer.
 
Jennifer McClure – Fine Art  
Jennifer McClure is a fine art and documentary photographer based in New York City. She uses the camera to ask and answer questions. She is interested in appearances and absences, short stories and movies without happy endings. Her work is about solitude and a poignant, ambivalent yearning for connection. The child of a Marine, she moved frequently and traumatically. She decorated her walls with traces of her past; photographs became anchor points. After acquiring a B.A. in English Theory and Literature, Jennifer began a long career in restaurants. She returned to photography in 2001, taking classes at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography, where she was a teaching assistant for many years. Jennifer was awarded CENTER's Editor's Choice by Susan White of Vanity Fair in 2013 and has been exhibited in numerous shows across the country. She was a 2019 and 2017 Critical Mass Top 50 finalist and twice received the Arthur Griffin Legacy Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography. Lectures include the School of Visual Arts i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration series, Fotofusion, FIT, NY Photo Salon and Columbia Teacher's College. She has taught workshops at PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, the Maine Media Workshops, and Fotofusion. She was a thesis reviewer and advisor for the Masters Programs at both the School of Visual Arts and New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her work has been featured in publications such as GUP, The New Republic, Lenscratch, Feature Shoot, L'Oeil de la Photographie, The Photo Review, Dwell, Adbusters, and PDN. She also founded the Women's Photo Alliance in 2015.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Jennifer Summer – Portraiture         
Jennifer Summer is a photographer, writer, and artist living in greater Cincinnati, Ohio. Her writing passion began the day she could hold a pencil, but her photography began with the birth of her first and only child, her son, Dakota, now a teenager. He has always been her most beloved muse and favorite subject. Jennifer's work has been published in multiple periodicals and books, including the Capture Cincinnati photo competition in which she took first place in the Portrait and also Pet category, and received an Editor's Choice Award. A first place winner in the photography competition sponsored by ViewBug and named by them as one of the top photographers of 2018; her work has been exhibited in multiple venues across the city. Jennifer has presented her work and artistic process at local colleges, and published Our Salt & Sand, a collection of original prose with photographic accompaniments. In 2008 she founded the organization The Emancipation of Artemis | Artists United to End Violence Against Women & Girls and held an art exhibition which raised over $2,000 for RAINN. Jennifer has provided photography services to noteworthy actors and comedians such as John Fugelsang (Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour headliner, and host of Sirius XM show Tell Me Everything), and Zach Galligan (Gremlins), and Jack Sonni, (former guitarist for Dire Straits). Jennifer's portfolio consists mainly of conceptual portraits, as well as nature and water, all of which are the driving passion behind her work. Jennifer has a deep and abiding love for the sea, mermaids, elephants, reading, creating, and surviving.  She enjoys spending time with her family and friends and finding new and interesting ways to see the world. Jennifer is currently in the battle of her life against stage four metastatic breast cancer. She has undergone brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Her condition is stable as of now due to aggressive oral chemotherapy medications and the love, support, and positive energy she receives from her tribe of friends and her wonderful family. If you wish to contribute to the fight against this devastating illness, please consider donating to the American Cancer Society, Camp Kesem (a free camp for children who have a parent with cancer), Cancer Family Care, and the Karen Wellington Foundation for LIVING with breast cancer. All of these organizations are invaluable resources and do tremendous good for patients and affected family members. Jennifer’s teenaged son was a guest speaker at a Camp Kesem banquet in 2018.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Jerry Uelsmann         
Jerry N. Uelsmann (born June 11, 1934) is an American photographer, and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America. Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. While attending public schools, at the age of fourteen, there sparked an interest in photography. He believed that through photography he could exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily photographs of models. Eventually Uelsmann went on to earn a BA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and M.S. and M.F.A. degrees from Indiana University. Soon after, he began teaching photography at the University of Florida in 1960. In 1967, Uelsmann had his first solo exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art which opened doors for his photography career. Uelsmann is a master printer, producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images, and has a large archive of negatives that he has shot over the years. The negatives that Uelsmann uses are known to reappear within his work, acting as a focal point in one work, and background as another. Similar in technique to Rejlander, Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, but may be composed of many. During the mid-twentieth century, when photography was still being defined, Uelsmann didn't care about the boundaries given by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time, he simply wished to share with the viewer the images from his imagination and saw photomontage as the means by which to do so. Unlike Rejlander, though, he does not seek to create narratives, but rather "allegorical surrealist imagery of the unfathomable". Uelsmann is able to subsist on grants and teaching salary, rather than commercial work. Today, with the advent of digital cameras and Photoshop, photographers are able to create a work somewhat resembling Uelsmann's in less than a day, however, at the time Uelsmann was considered to have almost "magical skill" with his completely analog tools. At the time Uelsmann's work first came to popular attention, photos were still widely regarded as unfalsifiable documentary evidence of events. However, Uelsmann, along with Lucas Samaras, was considered an avant garde shatterer of this popular mindset and help to expand the artistic boundaries of photography. Despite his works' affinity with digital techniques, Uelsmann continues to use traditional equipment. “I am sympathetic to the current digital revolution and excited by the visual options created by the computer. However, I feel my creative process remains intrinsically linked to the alchemy of the darkroom.”[3] Today he is retired from teaching and currently lives in Gainesville, Florida with his third wife, Maggie Taylor.[4] Uelsmann has one son, Andrew, who is a graduate student at the University of Florida. But to this day, Uelsmann still produces photos, sometimes creating more than a hundred in a single year. Out of these images, he likes to sit back and select the ten he likes the most, which is not an easy process.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Joan Fontcuberta      
Joan Fontcuberta is a Spanish artist, self-described as “a conceptual artist using photography”. Through his works Joan examines the truthfulness of photography and investigates into photography’s authority and the human inclination to believe what we see. Contradiction, playfulness, conflict and the possible – all that form the territory on which works are situated. Joan Fontcuberta was born in 1955 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He received a degree in communications from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1977. He worked in advertising in his early career, following a family tradition. From 1979 to 1986 he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, after which he earned a living through his art. In 1980 he co-founded the Spanish/English visual arts journal PhotoVision, where he is still Editor in Chief. Since 1993, Fontcuberta has been a professor of audiovisual communication at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Although he has a missing finger, which he said was due to a home-made bomb blowing up in his hand, and that that makes him a terrible photographer, in 2013 he won the Hasselblad International Award in Photography.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Joe McNally – Editorial Photographer and Instructor          
Joe McNally, born in 1952 in New Jersey, is an American photographer, internationally acclaimed for his work. He completed his bachelor and graduate degree from Syracuse University and lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Between 1994 and 1998, McNally was a staff photographer for LIFE magazine. After the September 11 attack, McNally produced a series titled Faces of Ground Zero – Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th. It was a collection of 246 colossal Polaroid portrait photographed near Ground Zero in the Moby C Studio. In 2002, many of these photos were exhibited in seven cities. This work was printed by LIFE magazine, that helped raise around 2 million dollars for the relief efforts of the twin tower tragedy. For 20 years, Joe McNally has contributed to the well-known magazine, National Geographic. For this publication, the photographer produced a cover story of 32 pages, called The Future of Flying which was published in 2003. It was a tribute to the centenary observance of the flight of Wright Brothers. The cover proved to be very popular and was the finalist of National Magazine Award. He has also shot images of celebrities and photos with a news and sports genre under the magazine’s umbrella. McNally began visiting China in 1980s and each time he reintroduced himself to the technologically growing and fascinating place with a gleaming history. Apart from this, McNally has created cover stories for Time magazine, Geo, Newsweek, New York, LIFE, Business Week, Men’s Journal and Sports Illustrated. His advertising and promotional work include campaigns for Sony, Nikon, FedEx, General Electric, Adidas, WildLIFE Conservation Society, American Ballet Theatre, Epson, Kelby Media Group, MetLife and Land’s End. So far, among his other books are, The Moment It Clicks, 2008 – award winning and critically commended; The Hotshoe Diaries, 2009 – it was in the top ten list of Amazon’s best sellers; and Sketching Light, 2011 – another anticipated book. Joe McNally is internationally notorious for producing logistically and technically intricate projects with proficient use of light and color. He has done studio work to big productions and has shot conceptual images to aerial photos. McNally’s career has spanned 30 years including assignments in more than 50 countries. American Photo listed him as one of the 100 most significant people in Photography. The magazine appraised him as an exceptionally multi-talented contemporary photojournalist. He has been the Nikon Legend Behind the Lens and also an honorary affiliate of Kodak PDN Legends Online. In 2010, he was voted among the 30 most influential photographers of the decade by the Photo District News survey. He won the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for The Panorama of War, a LIFE magazine coverage. In addition, Joe McNally has been honored many times by POY, Communication Arts, Graphis, and The World Press Photo Foundation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Joel Whitaker
Joel Whitaker is an artist and educator living in Dayton, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Art from the University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama and a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. In 1990 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa and in 1993 he joined the faculty of the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, where he currently holds the rank of Professor. He has over 25 years experience in visual arts higher education, arts administration, curatorial work, community service and over 30 years experience in the making of photographs and photo related works. His was one of five photographers selected by Lenscratch, Fine Art Photography Daily, for The States Project: Ohio, one of eight Ohio photographers to participate in a NEH funded re-photographic survey of FSA photographs of Ohio. His work has been highlighted in the Elements of Photography, and included in Photography Now/One Hundred Portfolios – An International Survey of Contemporary Photography. His work is in several public collections, has been exhibited extensively in the US, and received several state, regional, and university grants.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         
John Scott                                                                                                      
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Jon Horvath   
Jon Horvath is an interdisciplinary artist routinely employing systems-based strategies within transmedia narrative projects. He received his MFA in Photography from UW-Milwaukee in 2008, and a BAS in both English Literature and the History of Philosophy from Marquette University in 2001. Horvath’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows at venues including: The Print Center (Philadelphia), FIESP Cultural Centre (Sao Paolo, Brazil), Gyeonggi Art Center (Suwon, South Korea), OFF Piotrkowska (Lodz, Poland), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland), the Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee), INOVA (Milwaukee), Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), Johalla Projects (Chicago), and The Alice Wilds (Milwaukee). His work is currently held in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Haggerty Museum of Art, and is included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Horvath currently teaches in the New Studio Practice program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
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Karen Kring –
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Karen McQuaid – Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery                   
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Kat Kiernan – Editor-in-Chief of Don’t Take Pictures magazine       
Kat Kiernan was raised on the coast of Maine. Now a city-dweller, the influence of her rural upbringing can be seen in her autobiographical photographs rooted in the natural world. Often using herself as her subject, her work explores feelings of uncertainty. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States and been featured in publications including China Life, Lenscratch, and The Woven Tale Press. In 2012, she was named one of Artpil’s “30 under 30” women photographers to watch. Kiernan lives in Brooklyn where she is the Editor-in-Chief of the photography magazine Don’t Take Pictures and the Associate Director of Kaish Family Art Project. She curated numerous exhibitions as the Director of Panopticon Gallery in Boston and owner of The Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia. In 2015, she received the Griffin Museum’s Rising Star Award for her contributions to the photographic community. Kiernan’s writings on photography have been published in journals and blogs including Art New England Online, Feature Shoot, and Big, Red, and Shiny, as well as in books, including Agnieszka Sosnowska: Myth of a Woman (The National Museum of Iceland, 2019), and The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (Intellect, 2017). She holds a BFA in photography from Lesley University College of Art and Design.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Kelli Connell  
Kelli Connell’s photographs have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions.  Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Microsoft, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Photography and The Dallas Museum of Art.  Connell’s full-length monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life was published by DECODE Books in August, 2011. Other publications include MP3: Midwest Photographers’ Publication Project (Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture) and Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon).  Connell lives in Chicago.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Kovi Konowieki         
Kovi Konowiecki (b.1992) was born in Long Beach, California, and is currently based between Long Beach and Mexico City. He holds a BA in Media Communications from Wake Forest University and an MA in Photography from University of the Arts London. After playing professional soccer in Europe, he turned to photography as a way to document the things around him and shed light on different aspects of his identity. Kovi was selected to be a part for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize in both 2016 and 2018, and was the first ever nominee to have two images shortlisted for the first place prize. He also also been featured and published on platforms such as i-D, British Journal of Photography and The Guardian, amongst many others. He was selected to be a Red Hook Labs Artist in 2018 and has exhibited his work in spaces such as ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica, CA) and The National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2018, Kovi cofounded a small publication, Mula Press, to explore his love for book making and to publish personal projects and special artist editions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Lance Keimig – Night Photographer and Instructor 
Night Photography has been my passion since I was first handed a camera 30 years ago. No, my father did not give me a Brownie, but my girlfriend introduced me to her Canon AE1, which I promptly took into my bedroom, turned off the lights, opened the shutter, and started waving a flashlight around to see what would happen. From the first rolls of film that I ever shot, I have been fascinated with the way that time can be expressed and distorted with long exposure photography. The ability to make images that record time differently that how we perceive it with our eyes has held my attention for all of this time. After exhausting all of the photography classes at the local community college, I moved to San Francisco to study with legendary Bay Area night photographer Steve Harper. Studying with Steve was a life changing experience. In his classes, I learned not only about night photography, but I learned what it meant to be a great teacher. When I began to teach my own workshops eight years later, I based my workshops on my time with Steve. His classes were all about sharing ideas. There was no competition, no rivalry, and the students and instructor all worked and learned together in the most supportive and friendly environment I’ve ever experienced.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
LaToya Ruby Frazier  
LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, formerly worked in New York, and currently lives and works in Chicago. An artist and activist, Frazier uses photography, video, and performance to document personal and social histories of midwestern America. Having grown up in the shadow of the steel industry, Frazier has chronicled the health and environmental crisis facing her family and her hometown since she was a teenager. Realizing at a young age that media depictions of people like herself did not accurately represent her life, she employs a radical black-and-white documentary approach that captures the complexity, injustice, and simultaneous hope within America. Her 2016 Flint is Family body of work traces the lives of three generations of women living through the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Lauren Kalman-Wayne State University       
Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is invested in contemporary craft, video, photography and performance. Through her work she investigates beauty, adornment, body image, and the built environment. Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed her MFA in Art and Technology from the Ohio State University and earned a BFA with a focus in Metals from Massachusetts College of Art. Kalman exhibits and lectures internationally. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Museum of Arts and Design, Cranbrook Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Mint Museum, and the World Art Museum in Beijing, among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Detroit Institute of Art. She has been awarded residencies at the Bemis Center, the Australian National University, the Corporation of Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, Haystack, and Santa Fe Art Institute. She has received Ponyide, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Puffin Foundation West and ISE Cultural Foundation Emerging Curator grants. She has taught at institutions including Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently she is an assistant professor at Wayne State University.
 
Leah Schretenthaler  
Leah Schretenthaler was born and raised in Hawaii. She completed her BFA degree from the University of South Dakota and holds a Masters degree in art education from Boston University. She is currently an MFA candidate. Her work uses traditional photography, video, and metal casting to create images. Through her art practice, her research presents a connection between land, material, and performance. Her work has been displayed nationally and internationally including Hawaii, Colorado, South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, New York, Wisconsin, and Spain.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Linda “Adele” Goodine  Herron School of Art          
Linda Adele Goodine’s training includes a Master of Fine Arts (1984) from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida where she studied as a teaching fellow in photography with Robert Fichter, dance with Nancy Fichter and installation performance with Jimmy Roach; a Master of Science in Communication Arts (1981) from Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York in Video and Non-Verbal Communication Theories; and a Bachelor of Arts (1980) from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, where she studied with photographer Roger Mertin, receiving an Interdepartmental Degree in Economics, Fine Arts and English Literature. During her studies at the University of Rochester, she researched the Farm Security Administration’s collection at the George Eastman International Museum under the direction of Robert Doherty. Directly following graduate school she supported herself as a studio artist and was represented in New Orleans through Tilden Foley Gallery and later the Res Nova Gallery. She concurrently taught sculpture in New Orleans at the Delgado School, before relocating to the Midwest to accept a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Herron School of Art and Design. Goodine was the inaugural recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant, and twice nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. In the same year she received a Photography Fellowship for the Southern Arts Federation National Endowment for the Arts. The Central Indiana Foundation awarded an Efromyson Fellowship in (2004), which is considered one of the largest individual visual artist fellowships awarded in the United States. She is currently represented by Gallery19 in Chicago. Linda Adele Goodine resides in Farmville, North Carolina and is the Belk Distinguished Professor of Art and Design at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.      
                                                                                                                                                                        
Lorna Rocky - Travel  
I am a global imagist (photographer), one of "the last of the mohicans", who stubbornly still only shoots in 35 mm NON-digital format. i'm also an advanced diver/underwater photographer with a shark diving specialist certification. i have photographed all 7 continents (yes, i know antarctica is a continent, and yes, i've photographed it), around 90 countries and obscure islands, and a lot of marine life underwater.   
 
Lyle Ashton Harris     
Lyle Ashton Harris (born 1965, Bronx, New York) has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been exhibited internationally as well as in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and most recently at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, presented on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Cinéma du Réel. He was the 2014 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 2016. Harris’s multimedia installation Once (Now) Again, was included in the 78th Whitney Biennial, his three-channel video work Ektachrome Archives (New York Mix), 2017, was acquired by the Whitney Museum, and an artist monograph titled Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs was published by Aperture in 2017. The artist currently lives and works in New York City and is an Associate Professor of Art at New York University.
 
Lynn Whitney
Lynn Whitney is head of photography and Associate Director in the School of Art at Bowling Green State University. A recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, her pictures are in the collections of the George Gund Foundation, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Cleveland Clinic, Columbia College’s Midwest Photographer’s Project, Southeast Center for Photographic Studies, and Yale University. She earned her MFA from Yale University, her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and her BA from Boston University.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Madison Miller          
I am a student at Gwen Frostic School of Art through Weatern Michigan University seeking a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in photography and intermedia and a minor in Marketing. Photography has and always will be a passion of mine. To see the world not just for what it is, but what it could be. The only limit in life is the limit of our imagination.
 
Margaret LeJeune     
Margaret LeJeune is an image-maker, curator, and educator from Rochester, New York. LeJeune holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Visual Studies from Visual Studies Workshop and a Bachelor in Science in Studio Art from Nazareth College of Rochester. Working predominately with photographic-based mediums, LeJeune explores issues of gender, representation, and the environment. Her work has been widely exhibited at museums and galleries across the country including The Griffin Museum of Photography, ARC Gallery, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Newspace Gallery, WomanMade Gallery, Workspace Gallery, Morean Arts Center, Fort Worth Art Center, Peoria Riverfront Museum, and the Candler Field Museum. Her work has also been featured on Slate.com, Actuphoto.com, and the Journal on Images and Culture. LeJeune currently serves as associate professor of photography at Bradley University in Peoria,
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Mariah Postlewait – Photography Historian
I grew up in Port Allegany in northwestern Pennsylvania with a family business in the logging industry and an enormous collection of family photographs. These fed my interest in photography, art history and visual culture, and the host of issues  surrounding power, representation, class, and identity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Marion Brenner – Landscape Architecture  
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Marissa Gifford - Professional          
I’m a California native who has called the Pacific Northwest home since 2002. I’m mom to 3 sons, wife to my best friend, and a my favorite color is orange. I’m not a morning person but have become a habitual early riser and I’m an extroverted introvert. It’s so nice to meet you! Images from my sessions emphasize connection, emotion, and interaction over smiling-at-the-camera images. I want you to relax, have fun, and do what you do best – love on each other and be yourselves! We’ll walk and talk, cuddle up tight, goof off, play games, and joke around. For the past 6 years I’ve been a photography mentor and instructor with one of the largest online photography forums. I teach Mastering Manual Exposure and Photoshop for Beginners at Click Photo School and I offer mentoring services to photographers who are looking to improve their technical and creative skills. On a personal level, I am an enthusiastic traveler and language learner! I love documenting my personal and business travels on my Instagram account and have a particular love of street photography.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Mark Klett     
Mark Klett is a photographer interested in making new works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally for over thirty-five years, and his work is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of fifteen books. Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona where he is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Megan Dill – Fine Art
I am a (mostly) film photographer based in the lower Hudson Valley of New York where my musically-inclined husband and our two effervescent, lovable young boys make our home. I am enamored with light and shadow and am continuously observing and plotting my next photographic endeavor. I strive to capture the perfectly imperfect moments of my family’s everyday life. Those are the images that I will really treasure someday. I firmly believe that the best camera is the one in your hand.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Michelle Moore – Portraiture           
Michelle Moore is a microbiologist and author regarded as an expert on holistic infection recovery by multiple doctors and by readers of her numerous books. Michelle combines experience from three different fields to provide a unique and authoritative perspective on infection recovery.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Mickey Strand – Portrait Photography         
Mickey is a Working Portrait Photographer and retired Navy Chief Photographer (PHC) and lives in San Diego after 24years of active service.  He is currently traveling, shooting and occasionally teaching for ACME Educational, Calumet Photo, Maine Media Workshops, and Madeline Island school of the arts. His photography career started early in the basement dark room of his parents home in Racine WI where his father instilled in him the love of the craft at a young age.  In high school, he began his photography education through classes, yearbook, and the school newspaper staff. Mickey served as a Naval Photographer on the USS Ranger, the USS Long Beach, and NAS Miramar, until being selected to teach the Digital Multimedia Course at the Defense Information School (DINFOS) in Maryland where he co-wrote the course, which continues today educating our Nations DOD photographers.  He retired from active service as the Leading Chief of Navy Combat Camera Group Pacific. Mickeys work in environmental or studio portraits bring a unique look to his portraits sessions.  His photojournalist Navy training brings a twist to his wedding photography.  Mickey has been and continues to refining and growing his craft today.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Miles Bergstrom – Photographer and Videographer
My name is Miles. I'm a filmmaker based in Portland Oregon (not to be confused with Maine)  by way of Boston. I try pulling the little moments out of every day. I enjoy telling stories, cracking jokes, and am my own worst critic. I'm constantly pushing myself to tell better stories and create better work. I've mastered the art of last-minute packing, can navigate most major airports, and greatly prefer window seats. I'm a firm believer in experience over everything, but I haven't always been true to that. I'm working on it. I'm accepting freelance projects currently and look forward to hearing from you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Nan Goldin – Fine Art
Nan Goldin, (born September 12, 1953, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American photographer noted for visual narratives detailing her own world of addictive and sexual activities. After leaving home at age 13, Goldin lived in foster homes and attended an alternative school in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Suspicious of middle-class myths of romantic love between the sexes and mourning a sister who took her own life in 1964, Goldin sought a substitute family for her own blood relations. In doing so, she became part of a group of alienated young men and women involved with drugs, sex, and violence. Much influenced by cinéma verité and no doubt aware of the work of American photographer Larry Clark, Goldin took up photography about 1971. Her first published works (1973) were black-and-white images of transvestites and transsexuals. In 1974 she began to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she embarked on an enormous portrait of her life, making hundreds of colour transparencies of herself and her friends lying or sitting in bed, engaged in sexual play, recovering from physical violence against them, or injecting themselves with drugs. Her involvement in this hermetic world was revealed in a diaristic narrative sequence of often unfocused but strongly coloured transparencies arranged as a slide show entitled The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1981). Accompanied by a musical score that mixed rock, blues, opera, and reggae, the presentation was initially shown in nightclubs and eventually in galleries. Goldin continued to work on this project throughout the 1980s, and it was reproduced in 1986 in book form. Continuing to photograph drag queens in the 1990s, she also created a series of images called—in reference to Edward Steichen’s humanistic and influential “Family of Man” exhibition of 1955—The Family of Nan, 1990–92, in which she documented her friends’ AIDS-related deaths. She photographed Japanese youths while traveling in Asia, and in 1995 she published those images in the book Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994. In 1995 she also made a biographical film for the BBC titled I’ll Be Your Mirror (with filmmaker Edmund Coulthard). In the late 20th and early 21st centuries Goldin was the subject of retrospective exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (1996–97) and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2001). She was also the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Hasselblad Award, an annual award granted by the Hasselblad Foundation to “a photographer recognized for major achievements.” Throughout her career Goldin was involved in various causes, including efforts to end the U.S. opioid epidemic. She received treatment for her addiction to the painkiller OxyContin in 2017 and later recounted her experience in the magazine Artforum. She called on the Sackler family, philanthropists who made part of their fortune from the sale of the drug, to take responsibility for their role in the crisis. Goldin also formed the advocacy group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now (P.A.I.N.), which staged protests in such museums as the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Sackler Wing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to condemn the institutions’ use of funds from the family.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Nate Mathews           
Nate Mathews received his Master of Fine Art Degree in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2008 and teaches as an Associate Professor of Art at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. His work explores poorly designed architectural spaces as well as sites constructed by the U.S. military during the Cold War. Recent exhibitions of his work include group shows at Loyola University Chicago(Chicago, Illinois), the Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, Illinois), Buckham Gallery (Flint, Michigan), Filter Photo Space (Chicago, Illinois), and Photo Place Gallery (Middlebury, Vermont), a three-person exhibition at Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, Illinois), a four-person exhibition at the Perspective Gallery (Evanston, Illinois) and solo exhibitions at Governors State University (University Park, Illinois), the McLean County Arts Center (Bloomington, Illinois), and Elgin Community College (Elgin, Illinois).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Nicole Gonric – Empire State Kansas
Bio to follow                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Noel Casaje - Landscape       
I'm a landscape photographer based in the US. An avid student of light and how it reacts with the natural world. I love capturing scenes that speaks to me and evokes a sense of emotion with the viewer. Working in low light is what I do best, exploring the nuances it creates while transforming scenes from the real to the surreal.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Norma Santaolaya  Elgin Community College                                                                                                                                                                                  
Patrick Cone - Professional   
I am a photographer, art director, editor, designer, & writer with 3 decades of experience.
 
Peter Turnley 
"Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek 43 times and are published frequently in the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over 90 countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geo-political and historic significance in the last thirty years. His photographs draw attention to the plight of those who suffer great hardships or injustice. He also affirms with his vision the many aspects of life that are beautiful, poetic, just, and inspirational. Turnley’s photographs have been featured in Newsweek, Harper’s, Stern, Paris Match, Geo, LIFE, National Geographic, The London Sunday Times, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, New Yorker, and DoubleTake. Peter Turnley worked on contract for the Newsweek Magazine from 1986-2001 and as a contributing editor/photographer with Harper’s Magazine from 2003-2007. His work is frequently published in photo essay form in magazines, on major television networks such as CNN, ABC’s “Nightline”, and in online publications, such as The Online Photographer. Turnley’s photographs have been published the world over and have won many international awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year competition. Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts of the last decade including the Gulf War-1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the war in Iraq-2003, and also maintains an ongoing documentation of the major refugee populations of the world. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa. He was in New York at “Ground Zero” on Sept 11, 2001, New Orleans during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Haiti after the tragic earthquake of 2011, and Egypt during the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. He is currently working on a long-term project on daily life in Cuba, “Cuba-A Grace of Spirit”. Turnley has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr, Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others. Since 1975, Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. Turnley was born in the U.S., but has lived more than half his life in Paris. His tender, humorous, and sensual view of Paris, offers distinct contrast to the stark realities depicted in his photojournalism. He has photographed the extensively the life of Paris these past 35 years. Turnley worked as the assistant to the famous French photographer Robert Doisneau in Paris in the early 1980’s. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the New School of Social Research in New York and St. Francis College of Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000-2001. Peter Turnley also teaches photography workshops on street photography and the photo-essay in Paris, Cuba, New York, Mumbai, Venice, Sicily, and Lisbon. He presently lives in both New York and Paris, and has previously published six books of his work: French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris, Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, and McClellan Street."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Peter West Carey – Travel and Educator      
I purchased my first 35mm camera directly after high school and have been enthralled with the media ever since. Experimenting first with black and white basics and moving on eventually to digital photography, I have always been pleased with how much there is to learn about capturing light and presenting it. Photography and travel have always gone hand in hand for me. I prefer grand, technical and powerful shots that help the viewer feel what it’s like in a far off land or right around their corner. I enjoy making connections with others and getting the chance to tell a bit of their story and that’s why I enjoy portrait and wedding photography as much as I do. I’ve been shooting weddings for over 28 years and enjoy the challenge of capturing the uniqueness that makes every wedding a very special day.                                                                                                                                                 
 
Petra Collins – Fashion          
Petra Collins is an artist, model and photographer whose distinct aesthetic has made her one of the leading voices of the movement many are calling New-Wave Feminism, and created campaigns for Gucci, Nordstrom and Adidas, among others. Collins’ relationship with Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele has led her to walk in the Autumn/Winter 2016 show, shoot a short film for Gucci eyewear in 2017, and feature in the house's Gucci Bloom fragrance advertising campaign alongside Dakota Johnson and Hari Nef . “I love Petra,” Michele told the New Yorker. “She is an artist, a real woman of an intense and powerful beauty.” Noted as one of a group of young female artists leading a new wave of female gaze-led photography, Collins’ first major outlet for her photography, which she continues to shoot on film, was with contemporary Tavi Gevinson’s Rookie magazine. Growing up in Toronto, she launched her art collective The Arduous at age 17. After moving to New York, Collins held exhibitions of her work, including a show and controversial shirt collaboration with American Apparel that gained international attention. She has since photographed covers and high-end editorial for publications such as US and Italian Vogue, Dazed , The New York Times and CR Fashion Book, and notably shot Kim Kardashian for Wonderland Magazine and Chance the Rapper on the cover of Teen Vogue. “I’m very lucky that I’m not a photographer for hire—people hire me for me,” Collins told Forbes. “Every brand I’ve worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do, I have full creative freedom.” Collins has exhibited in institutions that include The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Modern and Miami & Hong Kong Art Basel. She has also lent her hand to the film and music industry, shooting music videos and artwork for artists such as  Selena Gomez , and directing short films for Gucci and Adidas. In 2017, she was named in Forbes'  "30 Under 30" list, as well as Vogue’s 40 Creatives To Watch and the Dazed 100. She released her first art book, “Babe,” with Random House in 2015, and produced a solo retrospective of her work with Rizzoli in autumn 2017.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Rebecca Zeiss
Rebecca Zeiss works with her eclectic photographic images often using antiquarian processes to create ethereal and enigmatic imagery which she exhibits internationally. Originally a painting and drawing major she received her BFA from University of Michigan School of Art then shifted the focus of her work to photography with her MFA from Central Michigan University. Rebecca teaches printmaking and photography at the University of Michigan-Flint.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Richard Renaldi         
Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received a BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. He is represented by Benrubi Gallery in New York and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin. Five monographs of his work have been published, including Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006); Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009); Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014); Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016); I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). He was the recipient of a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Richard Tuschman     
Richard Tuschman began experimenting with digital imaging in the early 1990’s, developing a style that synthesized his interests in photography, painting and assemblage. He has been exhibited widely, both in the US and internationally. Accolades and awards include Prix de la Photographie Paris (Gold Medal, People's Choice), Critical Mass Top 50, International Kontinent Awards (1st Place, Fine Art Projects) and Center Project Launch Juror's Award (chosen by Roger Watson, Fox Talbot Museum) among others. His photographs have been published on numerous online magazines/journals including Slate, LensCulture, LensScratch and Huffington Post. In 2016 he was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography. He currently lives and works in New York and Europe.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
Robert Hirsch – Author of the book, Transformational Imagemaking         
Robert Hirsch lives in Buffalo, NY, and is a photographer, writer, and the Director of Light Research. His books include Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes, and Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels. Hirsch is a former Associate Editor for Digital Camera (UK) and Photovision Magazine, and a contributor to Afterimage, exposure, Buffalo Spree, The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fotophile, FYI, History of Photography, Ilford Photo Instructor Newsletter, Photo Techniques, The Photo Review, and World Book Encyclopedia. Also, he is the former Executive Director of CEPA Gallery and has curated numerous exhibitions. His own images have been internationally exhibited in over 200 solo and group shows. He participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in May 1999.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Roger Ballen  
One of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st century, Roger Ballen’s photographs span over forty years.  His strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950 but for over 30 years he has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a geologist took him out into the countryside and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden world of small South African towns. At first he explored the empty streets in the glare of the midday sun but, once he had made the step of knocking on people’s doors, he discovered a world inside these houses which was to have a profound effect on his work. These interiors with their distinctive collections of objects and the occupants within these closed worlds took his unique vision on a path from social critique to the creation of metaphors for the inner mind. After 1994 he no longer looked to the countryside for his subject matter finding it closer to home in Johannesburg. Over the past thirty five years his distinctive style of photography has evolved using a simple square format in stark and beautiful black and white. In the earlier works in the exhibition his connection to the tradition of documentary photography is clear but through the 1990s he developed a style he describes as ‘documentary fiction’. After 2000 the people he first discovered and documented living on the margins of South African society increasingly became a cast of actors working with Ballen in the series’ Outland (2000, revised in 2015) and Shadow Chamber (2005) collaborating to create powerful psychodramas. The line between fantasy and reality in his subsequent series’ Boarding House (2009) and Asylum of the Birds (2014) became increasingly blurred and in these series he employed drawings, painting, collage and sculptural techniques to create elaborate sets. There was an absence of people altogether, replaced by photographs of individuals now used as props, by doll or dummy parts or where people did appear it was as disembodied hands, feet and mouths poking disturbingly through walls and pieces of rag. The often improvised scenarios were now completed by the unpredictable behaviour of animals whose ambiguous behaviour became crucial to the overall meaning of the photographs. In this phase Ballen invented a new hybrid aesthetic, but one still rooted firmly in black and white photography. In his artistic practice Ballen has increasingly been won over by the possibilities of integrating photography and drawing. He has expanded his repertoire and extended his visual language. By integrating drawing into his photographic and video works, the artist has not only made a lasting contribution to the field of art, but equally has made a powerful commentary about the human condition and its creative potential. His contribution has not been limited to stills photography and Ballen has been the creator of a number of acclaimed and exhibited short films that dovetail with his photographic series’. The collaborative film I Fink You Freeky, created for the cult band Die Antwoord in 2012, has garnered over 125-million hits on YouTube. He has taken his work into the realms of sculpture and installation, at Paris’ Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2017), Australia’s Sydney College of the Arts (2016) and at the Serlachius Museum in Finland (2015) is to name but a few.  The spectacular installation at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2017, “House of the Ballenesque” was voted as one of the best exhibitions for 2017.   In 2018 at the Wiesbaden Biennale, Germany, another installation “Roger Ballen’s Bazaar/Bizarre” was created in an abandoned shopping centre. Ballen’s series, The Theatre of Apparitions (2016), is inspired by the sight of these hand-drawn carvings on blacked-out windows in an abandoned women’s prison. Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then ‘drawing on’ or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The results have been likened prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen has carved his thoughts and emotions. He also released a related animated film, Theatre of Apparitions, which has been nominated for various awards. In September 2017 Thames & Hudson published a large volume of the collected photography with extended commentary by Ballen titled Ballenesque Roger Ballen: A Retrospective.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
Ryan Gines     
Award-winning photographer/videography. St. Louis,MO. Specialized in commercial studio portraiture, product, advertising and videography.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Scott Berkin   
Scott Berkun is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, leading projects, culture, business and many other subjects. He’s the author of seven books, including  The Myths of Innovation,  Confessions of a Public Speaker, and The Year Without Pants. His work has appeared, or been mentioned, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Wired magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post and other media. He was born and raised in Queens, NYC, studied philosophy, computer science and design at CMU, was a manager at Microsoft (’94-’03) and WordPress.com (’10-’12), taught creativity at the University of Washington, was a co-host of CNBC’s The Business of Innovation TV show, is named on 5 U.S. patents, blogs for Harvard Business and BusinessWeek, and has appeared as an expert on various subjects on CNN, CNBC, NPR and MSNBC. He’s also the MC and speaker coach for Ignite Seattle, was awarded an Amtrak 2014 writer’s residency and directed the short film We Make Seattle.                                                                                                                                                           
Simon Bond – Travel and Documentary       
"Well known as a cartoonist and illustrator, Simon Bond became phenomenally popular in 1981 with the publication of his international bestseller, 101 Uses of a Dead Cat. The charming linear style of his drawings made the tone of his comedy seem all the darker. Simon Bond was born in New York City on 19 August 1947. He was the second son of British parents: Terence Bond, a political secretary at the United Nations, and Hilda Everett, a civil servant. He had an older brother, Timothy, and a younger twin brother, Nicholas. The family returned to England when Simon was four years old, and settled first in Nottingham, where he attended Forest Fields School. They then moved to London, where he attended Preston Manor County Grammar School, Wembley. Simon Bond studied graphics at West Sussex College of Art and Design in Worthing (1965-68), but was expelled before completing the course. He worked briefly as a paste-up artist for Tatler and other periodicals (1969-70), and as the manager of a jewellery shop in Luton, Bedfordshire. In 1970, Bond returned to the United States, and spent more than a decade living in Phoenix, Arizona, where the climate was better suited to his chronic asthma. He worked in a variety of jobs, including dealing in antiquarian prints and pictures and performing as a stand-up comedian. At the same time, he developed as a cartoonist by contributing to many major American magazines, including Esquire, Men Only, National Lampoon, The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post and Vole. In 1976, Simon Bond published his first book, Real Funny, and soon afterwards developed the idea of macabre cartoons about dead cats, prompted by Bernard Kliban’s surreal book, Cat (1975). They first appeared in the pages of Esquire, but were not collected as 101 Uses of a Dead Cat until 1981, once his friend, Terry Jones of Monty Python, had recommended it to the British publisher, Methuen. The book became an immediate and worldwide success, and was followed by many and various publications, beginning with the cartoon collection, Unspeakable Acts (1982). In 1982, Bond returned to London, and began contributing to Private Eye and Punch, while also producing 101 More Uses of a Dead Cat, with tie-in calendars appearing in 1983 and 1984. During the 1980s, he also illustrated two books by Alan Abel: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even! (1983) and How to Thrive on Rejection (1985), among others, and published and edited the book, Sherriffs at the Cinema (1985), on the subject of one of his favourite caricaturists. In 1985, Simon Bond married Linda Marshall, whom he had met in 1982, while she was studying engineering at university in her home town of Phoenix. They settled at Great Addington Manor, a Jacobean house near Kettering in Northamptonshire. Here he began to produce the ‘Teddy’ series of children’s books and continued issuing collections of cartoons, including Totally US (1988), Holy Unacceptable (1990), Uses of a Dead Cat in History (1992) and Everybody’s Doing It (1993). He also published and co-edited the comic magazine, Squib (1992-93). In 1993, Simon and Linda Bond moved to Langar, Nottinghamshire, as the result of a house swap with the buyers of their Northamptonshire manor house. They returned to London in 1995, but went back to Northamptonshire in 1999. In 2001, Methuen celebrated the twentieth anniversary of One Hundred Uses of a Dead Cat by publishing Complete Uses of a Dead Cat, incorporating all three volumes. Then, six years later, it celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary by republishing the original volume with a new foreword. Simon Bond died in Northamptonshire on 22 June 2011."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Stan Strembicki         
I am a professor emeritus of art in the College of Art photography program at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also an artist who exhibits his work in the USA and internationally and can be found on all seven continents. As a fine art photographer I have a number of portfolios that range from 28 years of photographing Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Italy, to figure studies, digital works, a portfolio of work in and around Memphis and Graceland, a portfolio on the landscape of the beach, urban landscapes of Italy and Western Europe and a portfolio of night photography from Italy. I currently have two major portfolios; A ten year study of post Katrina New Orleans which along with my portfolio of 28 years of Mardi Gras work are now available for exhibition. I also work as a freelance photographer with clients ranging from architectural design build firms to commissioned portraits and a range of studio and location assignments. My photography is represented by Le Mieux Gallery in New Orleans, La. and Art Connection Gallery in Bastrop, Texas. You can contact the gallery to arrange an exhibition of any of the portfolios linked below. I live in University City, Missouri with my wife Rosemary.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Steve McCurry           
Steve McCurry was born in 1950, he is best known for his evocative colour photographs that document both human struggles and joy. Having travelled the globe for over thirty years, McCurry has photographed warzones, burning oil fields, refugee camps, ship breaking yards and monsoons all over the world. A member of Magnum Photos since 1986, many of his images have become modern icons.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Steven Benson                                                                                                                      
Bio to follow
                                                                                                                                   
Susan Gonsalez-Smith          
Susan Gonsalez-Smith was born and raised in Washington State. She is currently an Associate Professor in Photography at the University of North Dakota where she has taught photography since 2008. Before moving to North Dakota she was an Instructor of Art at Bluegrass Community College in Lexington, KY. She received her BFA at the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the University of Kentucky. The imagery of Gonsalez-Smith's photographs contains the metaphor of memory and myth. Using the contemporary framework of her personal history and environment, she explores personal loss, religious and cultural identities and the duality of life, using symbolism to evoke the inevitability of our own mortality. Ms. Gonsalez-Smith is the recipient of many grants and awards and exhibits on both the national and international level. She has exhibited works at The Main Street Gallery, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Midwest Center for Photography, The Chautauqua Center for the Arts, The Hampton Gallery, Circulo de Bellas Artes (The Circle of Fine Arts) Madrid, Spain, Atelier Gallery 030202, Bucharest, Romania, Borges Cultural Center in Buenos, Aires, Argentina, and The Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY to name a few.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Sylvia de Swaan        
Sylvia de Swaan is a Romanian born fine art and documentary photographer who has lived and worked in Mexico, Europe and several parts of the United States. In the mid-1970s, she moved to a hamlet in Central New York with her second husband and son, where they bought a Greek revival crumbling mansion heated with wood and coal. When her marriage ended, she was invited to be the Director of Sculpture Space, a fledgling studio program for located in Utica, NY, which during her tenure earned an international reputation, an NYS Governors' Art award, and a MacArthur Award for its uniqueness. Sylvia has also been involved in the arts as an educator, curator, visual arts panelist and arts consultant. In her personal work, Sylvia de Swaan engages in long-term self-assigned projects that explore themes of transience, loss, individual and collective memory and identity, the state of the world and the neighborhood where she lives. Her longest running body of work, titled "Return" was begun in early 1990 with a series of train journeys.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Vincent Versace        
Vincent Versace is an internationally recognized pioneer in the art and science of digital photography. His passion for natural light photography is manifest not only in his work but also through his role as a creative and technical leader, contributing to innovative breakthroughs across the entire digital image value chain. Vincent is one of Nikon’s 16 founding Nikon Ambassadors and is a recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Media Arts & Entertainment and the Shellenberg fine art award, as well as the 2019 Photo Mentor award and his work, is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History. He is the photographer of Immediate Assistants Medical Rescue Go Team. He was commissioned by the San Francisco Presidio Trust to create a body of photographic work to permanently capture this National Park and Historic Landmark. Vincent’s work has been highlighted in American Photo, Popular Photography, The New York Times, Shutterbug, Outdoor Photographer, Pro Digital Imaging, PDN, What Digital Camera, Petersen’s Photographic, PC Camera, Studio Design and Photography, Professional Photographer, Digital Imaging and many more. Nominated multiple times to the Photoshop Hall of Fame. He is the author of the best selling books From Oz to Kansas: Almost Every Black & White Technique Known to Mankind and Welcome to Oz 2.0: A Cinematic Approach to Digital Still Photography with Photoshop. His book, Welcome to Oz has been selected as Shutterbug Magazine’s best how-to book of the year. Vincent was the original host of the Epson Print Academy and is a founding member of the Epson Stylus Pros.In addition to being a Nikon Ambassador he is also a Nikon Legend Behind the Lens, an Xrite Colorotti, Hivelight Light Master, Sunbounce Enlightner, Lexar Elite Photographer, Team NiK Elite Photographer, BenQ Ambassador, an American Photo Magazine Mentor Trek and Master Class instructor and a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team. He teaches regularly at Photoshop World, B&H, the FBI, US Navy Combat Camera, US Coast Guard, Maine Media Workshops and Palm Beach Photographic Workshops. Vincent’s passion for photography dates back more than four decades when, at the age of seven, his wedding-photographer uncle introduced him to the magic of the darkroom. Within two years, he had sold his first photo. Within ten, he had booked his first professional assignment. Today, based in Los Angeles, he divides his time between commercial and fine art photography assignments, teaching, and consulting for such suppliers as Nikon, Epson, Nik, OnOne, X-Rite, Adobe, Westcott, and others.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Walid Azami – Professional  
I shoot Music. I shoot Fashion. I shoot fashionable musicians. Bred in Afghanistan, raised in Anaheim, doing it in LA/NY.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
William Wegman – Fine Art  
William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. In the fall of 1970 he moved to Southern California where he taught for one year at California State College, Long Beach. In 1971 He moved to Santa Monica. By the early 70s, Wegman’s work was being exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher Gallery in Dusseldorf, his work was included in such seminal exhibitions as “When Attitudes Become Form,” and “Documenta V” and regularly featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and Avalanche magazines. It was while he was in Long Beach that Wegman got his dog, a Weimaraner who he named Man Ray, and began a long and fruitful collaboration. Man Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his endearing deadpan presence, became a central figure in Wegman’s photographs and videotapes. When Man Ray died in 1982 he was named “Man of the Year” by the Village Voice. It was not until 1986 that Wegman got a new dog, Fay Ray, and another collaboration began marked by Wegman’s extensive use of the Polaroid 20 x 24 camera. With the birth of Fay’s litter in 1989, Wegman’s cast of grew to include Fay’s offspring — Battina, Crooky and Chundo — and later, their offspring: Battina’s son Chip in 1995, Chip’s son Bobbin in 1999 and Candy and Bobbin’s daughter Penny in 2004. Out of Wegman’s involvement with this cast of characters grew a series of childrens’ books inspired by the dogs’ various acting abilities: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, ABC, Mother Goose, Farm Days, My Town, Surprise Party and Chip Wants a Dog.  Wegman has also published a number of books for adults including Man’s Best Friend, Fashion Photographs, William Wegman 20 x 24, The New York Times Bestseller Puppies, Fay, William Wegman: Paintings and the upcoming Being Human, edited by William Ewing and published by Thames and Hudson fall 2017.Wegman has created film and video works for Saturday Night Live and Nickelodeon and his video segments for Sesame Street have appeared regularly since 1989. In 1995, Wegman’s film The Hardly Boys was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Wegman has been commissioned to create images for a wide range of projects including a fashion campaign for Acne, banners for the Metropolitan Opera and covers for numerous publications including The New Yorker and, most recently, Wallpaper. Wegman has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and with Jay Leno, The David Letterman Show and The Colbert Report. Numerous retrospectives of Wegman’s work have toured Europe, Asia and the United States including:  “Wegman’s World,” at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 1981; “William Wegman: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Videotapes,” which opened at the Kunstmuseum, Lucerne in 1990 and traveled to venues across Europe and the United States including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Funney/Strange” which opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2006 and made its final stop at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus in the fall of 2007 and “Hello Nature” which opened at the Bowdoin Museum of Art in 2012 and travelled to Artipelag in Stockholm, Sweden.  Recent museum exhibitions have included touring retrospectives in Japan, Korea and Spain and numerous gallery exhibitions including , in 2016 “William Wegman: New and Used Furniture” at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; “Good Dogs on Nice Furniture” at Texas Gallery, Houston and “William Wegman: Paintings” at Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York. Being Human, a large scale survey of over thirty years of Wegman’s photographic work was published in fall 2017 (Chronicle/Thames and Hudson).  A travelling exhibition inspired by the book is is being organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and will open at the “Rencontres d’Arles” this summer, the start of a four year tour that will include stops in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Dressed and Undressed at Sperone Westwater Gallery and Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. William Wegman lives in New York and Maine where he continues to paint, draw, make videos and take photographs with his dogs Flo and Topper.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Zach Sutton – Professional    
Zach Sutton is a Los Angeles Photographer specializing in headshots, portraits, events, and weddings. Zach’s passion is to simply take great photos that contain a style unlike other photographers. He is available for hire for portrait sessions, headshot photography, wedding photography, commercial photography and event photography in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and the surrounding areas. Zach Sutton also travels to various parts of the world for photography – check the blog to see if he is coming to a town near you. Zach Sutton is also available for lectures, workshops and teaching seminars on photography & the business of photography all over the United States. He currently writes and is the Features Editor for Resource Magazine Online. He has extensive experience in public speaking and finds passion in teaching the inner workings of photography and retouching. Various announcements for lectures and workshops will be announced on his photography workshop website. Please contact him directly for more information.