Join 2027 Annual Conference Co-Chairs for a conversation on the Call for Proposals for Community in Contrast, Minneapolis, MN. This event will be recorded for those who cannot attend in person.
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Now accepting nominations for possible candidates for the SPE Board of Directors!
Recommendations must be made by current SPE members. Deadline to submit nominations: May 15, 2026
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Join us for a special Eddie Adams Workshop webinar in partnership and hosted by SPE to get expert advice on how to develop portfolios from
industry leaders.
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Jessica Labatte, Theresa Emmett, Elena Volkova, and Rachel Ballot will be engaging in a dialogue surrounding collaborative photography as ethical co-authorship in the session, "Reciprocity Reframed: Co-Creating in the Light of Belonging." Be sure to learn more about this session at spenational.org
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Be sure to learn more about, "Social Practice: Navigating Academia." Ken Marchionno, Kim Abeles, Jenny Jacklin-Stratton, Richard Shelton, and John Freyer will be discussing community engagement in academic settings.
The difficult realities in today's photobook publishing landscape will be explored in the session, "After the Glut - Photobook Publishing in the Age of Plenty." We invite you to join J. Carrier, Nelson Chan, Matt Eich, Harrison Miller, and Mary Virginia Swanson for this dialogue.
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Are you interested in how to created enriching programs and increase your metrics? Join Rob Dickes, Melissa Nunez, Nick Shepard, and Curt Steckel for the session, "Reframing Collegiate Photography Education."
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During the 63rd Annual SPE National Conference we invite you to explore ritual and digital hauntings in lens-based practitioners. Stephanie Dowda DeMer, Zen Cohen, Sammie Correa, and Elizabeth McGrady will be engaged in a mystical conversation during their session, "Witching Hour."
During Alison Grant and Jeremy Bolen's session, "Climate Resilience in the American South," Oliver San, Beate Geisler, and Mari Shindelman will be exploring and investigating climate adaption and mitigation in the South.
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Is "Materiality and Response-ability" on your conference schedule? Mona Bozorgi, Lauren Cesiro, Jamie Ho, and Justin Carney will be discussing how photography is a medium of exchange between image, substance, and bodies.
Just a few more days until we are able to gather in Atlanta!
Meet your caucus leaders! Ahead of this year’s conference, we’re excited to introduce the leaders who help foster connection, advocacy, and community across SPE.
Ashely Kauschinger, Savannah Dodd, Jean Shon, and Fazilat Soukhakian will be exploring photography's relationship with shaping and challenging the archive in, "Re-Remembering: Photography at the Intersection of Archive, Memory, and Identity." Looking forward to seeing you there!
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The conference will feature "An Unfixed Pilgrimage: Vulnerability, Kinship & Healing through Collaboration." This panel explores collaboration as a site for vulnerability, kinship & healing with Sarah J. Winston, Jared Ragland, Rachel Boillot, Allison Grant, and J. Carrier.
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We invite you to join us for a conversation between Leslie Grant, Briar Pine, Tia-Simone Gardner, Shannon Benine, and Jaysen Hohlen as they discuss new possiblities in documentary photography in the session, "Place as assemblage: expansive methods in documentary practice."
You do not want to miss the 2026 SPE Annual Conference, Catalyst for Exchange, taking place March 19–21, 2026,l in Atlanta, Georgia!
The conference will feature DM Witman, Amanda Breitbach, Lily Brooks, and Vasudev Vashisht in conversation in the session, "Navigating the Polycrisis."
Just a few more days until we gather in Atlanta.
Are you interested in photographic artists who use an archive as a material & research tool? If so be sure to join Kayla Holdgreve, Evan Hume, Mahsa Attaran, Toni Pepe, and Janna Ireland for "The Archive as a Photographic Tool."
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"Fatemeh Fani is an Iranian researcher, activist, interdisciplinary artist, and an MFA student in studio art at UW-Madison. My research is grounded in my lived experience as an Iranian woman, explores personal archival photographs, themes of identity, violence and trauma. "
The conference will feature, “Cut Time: Collage and the Afterlives of Photographs,” this session will consist of a dialogue between photographic artists who use collage in their work.
Presenters: Jason Reblando, Deborah Orloff, Janna Ireland, and Vanessa Woods
2026 SPE Annual Conference, March 19–21 in Atlanta!
One of this year’s featured sessions, “Reframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography,” explores innovative analog practices that deepen student learning and engagement.
Presented by Lindsay Godin, Adam Log, and Frank Hamrick
Calling all exposure collectors! We’re trying to track down past issues of exposure so we can digitize the archive and make it accessible to SPE members and the public. Fill out the online form in our linktree to let us know what you have, and we’ll be in touch if we need your copies.
The conference will feature Richard Austin's presentation “A Veterans Walk through Photographic Education with PTSD,” questioning and exploring if a camera can be medication for a Veteran suffering PTSD from Combat?
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Be sure to add, "The Auger and The Augment: Image Release as Transsexual Cataclysm," to your conference schedule. Jamie Pittinos' research and artistic practice explores how queer deconstitution disrupts Western and photographic power exchange.
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Join us at the 2026 SPE Annual Conference, March 19–21!
One of this year’s sessions, “Interspecies Collaboration - A case for an ecological feminist future,” explores building feminist counter narratives and reckoning with multi generational trauma. Presented by Kanishka Puri!
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Please join us on March 19, 2026 @ 6:30pm for SPE's Welome Reception with 3 exhibitions and film festial screens at Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia.
We cannot wait to gather in Atlanta!
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Don't miss the 2026 SPE Annual Conference, Catalyst for Exchange!
The conference will feature Ricardo Rodriguez Rey's presentation “Archipiélago: Mapping Identity, Memory, and Erosion Through Photography” exploring identity, erosion, and memory through a photographic archipelago of place.
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Among this year’s featured sessions is “Intentional Communities for Women,” presented by Gina Dabrowski . Dabrowski will be sharing a presentatio of photographic portraits from women only intentional communities.
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You do not want to miss the 2026 SPE Annual Conference, Catalyst for Exchange.
The conference will feature Jill Frank's presentation “Aesthetics of teenage life,” revealing and exploring its cultural and political significance.
Add it to your schedule, and learn more at spenational.org!