Douglas Beasley’s personal vision explores the spiritual and emotional aspects of people and place and is concerned with how the sacred is recognized and expressed in everyday life.

Doug continues to explore the notion of what is sacred in his photography and in his life. He lives in a small passive solar home surrounded by rocks and trees in Saint Paul, MN and when not out traveling the world he can be found tending his Japanese gardens or enjoying a strong cup of coffee while listening to loud music. Personal heroes include Jimi Hendrix, the Dalai Lama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and whoever invented the espresso machine.

https://douglasbeasley.com/

Susan Burnstine is one of the few photographers today avidly pursuing alternative processes to create an idiosyncratic and deeply personal visual landscape. Initially, Burnstine sought to find a way to portray her dream-like visions entirely in-camera, rather than with post-processing digital manipulations. To achieve this, she has created twenty-one handmade film cameras and lenses that are frequently unpredictable and technically challenging. The cameras are primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts, and random household objects, with single-element lenses molded from plastic and rubber. Learning to overcome their extensive optical limitations required Burnstine to rely on instinct and intuition--the same tools that are key when attempting to interpret dreams.

A master platinum printer, Dan was one of the first fine art photographers to champion digital technology by creating the digital negative in 1992. His methods allowed him to embrace the unlimited control of the new Adobe Photoshop and produce a negative from a computer file. His "digital negative" was used to print in the classic darkroom making beautiful handcrafted platinum prints in the early days of digital imaging when printers fell far short of producing fine art quality results.

https://www.danburkholder.com/#/

Born in an era prior to the current technology and information sharing society we live in, my first memory of a camera was one my Father owned. It was a Canon 35mm gizmo that he used while serving in the Army in Korea. I clearly remember looking at it and being fascinated with slides he had taken while over seas. While non-functional today I still have it. I have come to realize that it’s the photographer who makes the picture, not the gear and gizmos. The camera is simply a tool, an extension of the photographer.

Bill's work has been recognized as "So very simple on the eye with an aura of great confidence and tranquility. Yet, with these apparent restrictions you deliver a sensual but respectful image that's worth visiting and revisiting."

https://www.wfephotography.com/

Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, author and educator who has accomplished international acclaim, in all three of these capacities, as a leading authority in Alternative Photographic Processes. In addition to expertise in current standard digital photo techniques for the last 10+ years, Enfield is also known for her instruction of hand coloring, wet plate collodion, and an array of other photo processes at Parsons The New School for Design, Fashion Institute of Photography, New York University, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and the International Center of Photography in New York City as well as RISD. For years Jill has also appeared annually for workshops around the world including Cairo, Croatia, Edinburgh, Italy, Lisbon, London, Norway, and dozens of other cities around the globe as well as many cities in North America.

https://www.jillenfield.com/

Michael Foley was born in Delaware and grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He opened his gallery in the fall of 2004 after fourteen years of working with notable photography galleries, including Fraenkel, Howard Greenberg, and Yancey Richardson.

Foley went on to co-found The Exhibition Lab in the fall of 2009. He is the founder of The Photo Community, which regularly offers workshops and critiques for photographers. He gives guidance to fine art photographers in his weekly newsletter, The Photographer's Report on Substack.

http://www.foleygallery.com/

Fran has mounted many solo exhibitions as well as numerous group shows. She has won numerous awards and prizes and has been featured in other magazines and publications.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Fran studied art and sociology as an undergraduate at Brandeis University. Returning to her passion for making art, she began making staged photographs. She earned an MFA from Boston University in graphic design, a field in which psychology melds with art. She spent most of her grad school years experimenting in the darkroom.

In the early ‘90s, Fran began incorporating photography and digital collage into her design work. She designed several visually rich CD-roms and later became an art director at AOL-Time Warner. There, she designed the preeminent web site devoted to African American culture.

https://www.franforman.com/

The wide arc of her work grapples with the various modes of domestic, cultural, and political engagement that structure female experience in the United States. Her inquiries are driven by a desire to capture, develop, and share a closer understanding of female subjects. Each project she creates, whether individual or collaborative, focused on the personal or the collective, is at heart about the intrinsic connection between self and other, between interiority and positionality as much as kinship and community.

Her work has travelled nationally as well as internationally, and is placed in collections such as Center for Creative Photography, Capitol One Collection, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Center for Fine Art Photography. Her book projects, both monographs as well as collaborative projects have been acquired by various institutions around the country such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Duke University Libraries, Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Institute to name a few.

My efforts in photography, and everything creative, come from a lifelong desire to make things.

As soon as I could use a machine, I began sewing. I first made clothing, then quilts. Years of sewing taught me about color, pattern and precision. And about overcoming failure with perseverance.

Along the way, I became interested in paper. I began making hand-crafted journals and taught myself to make boxes. At a local university, I ventured into art courses in drawing and design. In these classes, I began to develop an eye for design and personal expression. Workshops, particularly those at Penland and Arrowmont, have helped me build skills in creating boxes. Projects with Asheville Printmakers broaden my view of all that printmaking can encompass.

My work now centers on showcasing prints in unique books and boxes.

https://www.carollawrencecreative.com/

Kevin Holliday is an internationally recognized fine art black and white photographer residing in metro Atlanta, Georgia, having just recently moved from Charleston, South Carolina. Along with being named the Professional Photographers of South Carolina ‘Photographer of the Year’ in 2017, he has received awards from such international organizations as the SeeMe Exposure Awards™, ND Awards™, and the esteemed IPA™ (International Photography Awards).

His work has a primary focus on architecture, landscape, and long-exposure minimalism, where it is noted for its attention to simple elements, leading lines, and negative space. Kevin attributes this attention to his background studies in graphic design, as well as his primary studies in film production at the University of Georgia, where he earned his degree. He is also known for mentoring local photographers by helping them develop the technical aspects of image-capture and processing while also expressing their artistic vision; he believes that without vision, nothing else matters!

https://www.kevinhollidayphoto.com/

Renowned photographer and educator, Laurie Klein, is regarded as one of the most influential infrared photographers in the world. Laurie holds a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from Ohio University. Early in her career, Laurie studied with Ansel Adams. She is the author of Infrared Photography: Digital Techniques for Artistic Images, Infrared Photography: Artistic Techniques for Brilliant Images and Photographing The Female Form with Digital Infrared all published by Amherst Media and Hand Coloring Black and White Photography published by Quarry Publishers. Laurie teaches regularly at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Maine Media, Peter’s Valley Center, numerous other schools and venues, and in her own boutique workshops.

https://www.laurieklein.com/

April is a retired military wife and homeschooling mom of two wild boys. April is not afraid to go out and try something new, even if she fails. She’s still won because she didn’t let fear stop her. April is human; she makes mistakes; she is perfectly imperfect; she is saved by grace. Her saying this year is, “don’t feed the fears.”

April’s love for photography started in her grandmother’s kitchen with her Polaroid camera. Her grandmother made her really think about the shot before April took it and would always tell her, “you only get one shot, so make it count”. Although April went to college for black and white film after high school, her journey wasn’t straightforward, and as a young adult, photography and April went separate ways. Being a mom caused the paths to cross again, however, and April began to fall back in love with taking pictures because photography allowed April to see her kids through the lens, inspiring her in a number of new and different ways.

https://www.aprilmilani.photography/

Marcy Palmer’s work circles around themes of home, beauty, nature, and science. Marcy has an M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a B.S. in Studio Art from Skidmore College.

Marcy’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at various spaces including The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Claire Elizabeth Gallery, The Vermont Center for Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, The Berlin Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (GE), The Bathhouse Cultural Center (Dallas), The Women’s Museum (Dallas), and other venues. Marcy's work has been written about in The Boston Globe Sunday Edition, Humble Arts Foundation, D Magazine, Ain’t-Bad, Lenscratch, What Will You Remember, and other publications. Her work won Gold in the Fine Art, Abstract category of the PX3, Prix de la Photographie, Paris 2016 awards. Her work was also a finalist in the Fine Art Category for the 7th Edition of the Julia M Cameron Awards. She currently resides in Dallas, TX.

Wendi Schneider is a Denver-based visual artist widely known for her ongoing series of hand-gilded photographs, States of Grace –– illuminated impressions of grace in the natural world. Drawn to the serenity she finds in the sinuous elegance of organic forms, she embraces photography to preserve vanishing moments of beauty in our vulnerable environment. Schneider’s gilding process creates images that seemingly dance on the paper’s surface amidst reflections of light on precious metals, creating a synthesis of technique and subject.

https://wendischneider.com/

Aline Smithson is a visual artist, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, studying under artists such as William Wegman, Allen Ruppersburg, and Charles Garabian. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor, Smithson returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice.

In 2007, Smithson founded LENSCRATCH, a photography journal that celebrates a different contemporary photographer each day. She has been the Gallery Editor for Light Leaks Magazine, a contributing writer for Diffusion, Don’t Take Pictures, Lucida, and F Stop Magazines, has written book reviews for photo-eye, and has provided the forewords for artist’s books by Tom Chambers, Meg Griffiths, Flash Forward 12, Robert Rutoed, Nancy Baron, among others. Smithson has curated and jurored exhibitions for a number of galleries, organizations, and on-line magazines, including Review Santa Fe, Critical Mass, Flash Forward, and the Griffin Museum. In addition, she is a reviewer and educator at many photo festivals across the United States.

https://www.alinesmithson.com/

Douglas Stockdale, b. 1949, Pennsylvania (American) is a visual artist located in Southern California who is the Senior Editor & founder of PhotoBook Journal, the contemporary photobook review magazine. He is also the Senior Editor & founder of PhotoExchange as well as contributing to his personal art-photo-blog Singular Images.

He is on the adjunct faculty of the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), Medium Photo Festival (San Diego, CA), SouthEast Center for Photography (SEC4P, Greenville, SC) and a special guest instructor for Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC, Denver, CO). Previously Stockdale was a portfolio reviewer for LensCulture and a photobook reviewer for photo-eye magazine.

https://www.douglasstockdale.com/

"Every so often an artist comes along who defies the easy labeling that curators and critics feel obliged to stick on everything under their rapacious gaze. In spite of lacking obvious inspirations and role models, these artists manage to create deeply felt, radical works that an extraordinary number of viewers respond to with fervor and pleasure."

Karl-Peter Gottschalk, photography critic, on Joyce Tenneson

https://www.tenneson.com/

Richard Tuschman began experimenting with digital imaging in the early 1990s, developing a style that synthesized his interests in photography, painting and assemblage. Since 2012, beginning with his celebrated series, Hopper Meditations, he has focused on creating cinematic, open-ended photographic narratives that explore the complexities and emotional nuances of human relationships. Tuschman holds a BFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and has been exhibited widely, both in the US and internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland, AIPAD in NYC, and the Photovisa Festival in Krasnodar, Russia. Tuschman’s projects have twice been selected to the Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, he was a Finalist for the New Orleans Photo Alliance Clarence John Laughlin Award in 2015 and 2016, and was named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Photography in 2016. Richard Tuschman currently lives and works in New York City.

https://www.richardtuschman.com/

Brandon Thibodeaux is a photographer and educator based in Houston, TX, who creates portraits in the documentary tradition. In addition to his assignment work and creative commissions, he explores life in the American South. He is a guest instructor with the Santa Fe Photographic and Maine Media Workshops, as well as the Houston, Los Angeles, and SE Centers of Photography.

https://www.brandonthibodeaux.com/

Linda Vallejo consolidates multiple, international influences gained from a life of study and travel throughout Europe, the United States and Mexico to works that investigate contemporary cultural, spiritual and political issues.

Her work is in the permanent collections of East Los Angeles College Vincent Price Museum, The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Ill, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Print Department, Los Angeles, CA, University of California, Santa Barbara, (CEMA), California Multicultural and Ethnic Archives, and UCLA Chicano Study Research Center.

https://lindavallejo.com/