Portfolio Review: Sign up information will be available in the conference packets.

Corey George           

Corey George grew up on a small farm in upstate South Carolina, surrounded by farmers, old pine forests, wildlife and Southern Democrats. His current work is a study of the rural landscape of the South, and documents how man and society has shaped and altered it over the past few decades, and continues to alter it in the pursuit of progress. He currently teaches at the University of Tampa. Corey is interested in looking at student work.

Diana Hooper Bloomfield                                                                 

Diana has been an exhibiting photographer for nearly 25 years.  She has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States and has received numerous awards for her images, including a 1985 New Jersey State Visual Arts Fellowship, and several Regional Artist Project Grants from the United Arts of Raleigh, NC, most recently for 2006-07.  Her photographs have been published in Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique, by Eric Renner, as well as in the Pinhole Journal; the Photo Review; Photographer’s Forum; and in The Post Factory Journal.   Diana specializes in alternative printing techniques, and the use of pinhole cameras.  The 2004 exhibit, “Old is New Again: Alternative Processes,” which Diana curated, was originally shown at the Green Hill Center for NC Art, in Greensboro, NC, and also invited for exhibition at the 2004 Pingyao International Photography Festival, in Pingyao, China.  Diana was also an invited artist to the first Qinghai International Photography Festival, in Xining, China, where she exhibited in the summer of 2006. Diana lives and works in Raleigh, NC, where she also teaches photography.

Greg Ceo                  

Greg Ceo is a commercial and fine art photographer who had his first one-person show at OK Harris Gallery in 1998.  That show, titled, "Snowbirds" consisted of 20 portraits from his MFA Thesis work—portraits of retired middle class Americans in a gated community in Port St. Lucie Florida.  He since has gone on to commercial success as a photographer. He is represented in New York by Randy Cole Represents and has stock photography relationships with Getty Images, Jupiter Images and Uppercut Images.  This past September, he began teaching at Savannah College of Art and Design.                   www.gregceo.com

Alex Emmons

Alex Emmons grew up in rural upstate New York near the Catskill Mountains. She attended Arizona State University for her M.F.A. in photography. She has moved, traveled and lived abroad extensively informing her investigation of the intersection between domestic space and the agencies of displacement. Like a post-colonial anthropologists her work stems from a series of intimate interventions into the lives she brushes up against, these activities reveal themselves to her audience in a variety of modes which allow us into these sacred spaces by proxy. This fall, she began as Assistant Professor of Photography at Central Washington University. Alex’s projects move between photography, digital media, artist’s books, and installations encompassing a personal and diaryistic approach throughout. She is interested in talking with prospective graduate students who might be seeking a small school atmosphere for this experience.                   www.alexemmons.com

Heather Freeman

Heather D. Freeman works in digital print, video, animation and installation with a background in drawing.  Hailing from New Jersey, Freeman has taught at Allegheny College, the University of Kentucky and Clemson University.  She is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte.  www.EpicAnt.com

Emily Gomez                                                                                                               

Emily Jurkiewicz Gómez is originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  She received her B.A. in Fine Arts/Photography from Loyola University Chicago in 1998 and her M.F.A. with Distinction from the University of Georgia in 2006.  She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia where she lives with her husband, Ernesto.

Frank Hamrick

Frank Hamrick is an assistant professor and photography area coordinator for the School of Art at Louisiana Tech University. Frank previously taught photography in study abroad programs in Italy for the University of Georgia and Santa Reparata International School of Art, an independent program associated with Columbia College Chicago. His artwork is a mix of photography, storytelling, handmade books and found objects, which addresses the private environment a home provides intermingled with personal secrets and memories. His art is constantly evolving from his additional work at places such as The Maine Photographic Workshops, Hatch Show Print and Nexus Press. His work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions and housed in permanent collections including the Center for Creative Photography and The Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Frank received his BFA in photography from The University of Georgia and his MFA in photography from New Mexico State University. Frank would like to see work from students interested in graduate school.

Annie Hogan

Annie Hogan is an Australian photographic artist and Samstag scholar whose research interests include interior architectural space, the body and photography’s role in representation. Utilizing the domestic interior as site and subject, her color mural images explore the tensions between the objective world, imagination and human experience. Annie graduated with an MFA in 2004 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where she was awarded the Weinstein Fellowship. Prior to teaching at East Carolina University, she spent several years as an instructor at SAIC and has exhibited nationally and internationally.  Her works are in the collections of The Australia Council, The National Gallery of Victoria, The Corrigan Collection of Photography, The Museum of Brisbane, The Griffith University Art Collection, and private collections in Australia, the UK and the US.

Megan Jacobs

Megan Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Art, concentrating in Digital Media and Photography at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.  She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in photography from the University of New Mexico and a Bachelor of Art degree from Smith College, majoring in Art and minoring in Philosophy. Her recent exhibitions include Penumbra at Flashpoint Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the 7th Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China. Megan would like to see student work. www.meganjacobs.com

Adam Jacono       

Adam Jacono is an MFA candidate at East Carolina University. He is a first year Graduate student at ECU, and is continually investigating new ideas about what it means to be a photo-based image-maker. His images enlist a wide range of aesthetic and conceptual characteristics; starting with his Landscape Nuance series completed as an undergraduate at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, to the more recent work of Outside-In, Upside-Down, a project completed using a camera obscura room. His journey as a student, a photographer, and an artist will be discussed.  www.adamjacono.com

Perry Kirk

Kirk holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is currently Associate Professor of Photography at University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA.

Tracy Longley-Cook    

Tracy Longley-Cook completed her M.F.A. degree in Photography at Arizona State University in the spring of 2007, and received her B.F.A. in Photography at the University of Washington in 1997.  She also spent a year studying at the Maine Photographic Workshops, 1994-95. Tracy’s photographic work reflects on themes of  memory, desire, personal inquiry, and transformation.  Utilizing both traditional and digital methods within her work, she also incorporates non-traditional materials and techniques into her process. Tracy has exhibited her work internationally, and has been published in View Camera and Camera Arts magazines.  www.tracylongley-cook.com

Ben Lustig

Ben Lustig earned his BS degree in journalism and photography through the Mass Communication Department at the University of South Dakota. While attending USD, he received a grant concerning the regeneration process after a wildfire, taught as a Continuing Education Instructor of Photography, and held an Executive Photography Internship at the South Dakota Historical Preservation Office in Pierre, SD. He has a MFA Degree in Photography from East Carolina University where he teaches Introductory Photography and Color and Design courses and an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pitt Community College in Greenville, North Carolina.

Antonio Martinez           

In his 2005 interactive multimedia photo installation, Antonio Martinez explores and challenges the construction of his Mexican-American ethnicity while coming to terms with his Anglicized Hispanic identity. Born as Anthony, but slowly shamed and encouraged to go by the name of Antonio, the photographer looks back in his personal life to re-examine how he has come to reject, embrace and redefine what it means to be “latino”. Antonio earned his MFA degree in photography at East Carolina University in 2005 and, now, currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Intermedia Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.                        www.antoniom.com

 

Jeff Murphy

Jeff Murphy is currently an associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has been working with digital media for more than a decade, exploring a wide range of techniques from digital sound-based sculpture to digital photography. He has exhibited on the World Wide Web and has presented his works in traditional gallery and museum settings with solo exhibitions at such places as The Mint Museum of Art, The University of Notre Dame, and The University of Colorado. His work has been published in a diverse array of publications including WIRED Magazine, World Art Magazine, and the textbook Exploring Color Photography. He received his MFA from the University of Florida in 1995.          http://muttkingdom.com/murphy

Kathleen Robbins          

Kathleen Robbins, an assistant professor with the Studio Art area, teaches all levels of photography and digital imaging.  She received her undergraduate degree from Millsaps College, followed by an MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2001. Robbins’ work has been widely exhibited, including the 2006 Ping Yao International Photography Festival in Ping Yao, China and the 2006 International Juried Exhibition at the San Diego Art Institute’s Museum of the Living Artist.         www.kathleen-robbins.com

Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross is an MFA candidate at Florida State University, creating photographic, video, and multimedia artworks.  Before entering graduate school he worked as a commercial photographer, and for the last two summers he has been a guest instructor and lecturer in China, including holding an exhibition of his artworks at the Ningbo Museum of Art in Zhejiang province, China in June 2007.                    www.andrewross.com

Naomi Shersty     

Naomi Shersty’s photographic work investigates the reciprocal relationship between home and identity with a specific focus on complex family structure, domestic tragedy, and the lyrical and unpredictable landscape of rural Florida. Throughout her process, Shersty revisits significant locations from her past, including woods that were hideouts, clearings laden with teenage lust, and natural swimming holes that offered both magical and tragic escape. With the distance of the camera, the performative qualities of reenactment and an autobiographic approach to documentary photography, Shersty recreates the home of her memory as an adult who has returned to the circumstances of childhood and adolescence. By utilizing costuming, color, and theatricality, she blurs fact, fiction, self and other. Through a loose autobiographic narrative, Shersty’s photography, video, and installation work unites the past and the present. These works question the impact of home, the weight of experience and the fragmentary nature of memory.              www.naomishersty.com

George Blakely

George Blakely is an award-winning teacher and Professor of Art at Florida State University. He is an artist, educator, and environmentalist who allows his ecological concerns to carry over into his art. He has exhibited his work in over exhibitions across the country, in museums, universities, galleries, and non-profit spaces in almost every state in the country.

Chuck Hermard

Chuck Hemard lives and works along the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Columbus, GA where he is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at Columbus State University.  He grew up in Hattiesburg, MS, earned a BA in Psychology from University of Southern Mississippi in 1999 and received his MFA in 2004 from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is interested in seeing all types of student work.     

Silvia Lizama

Silvia Lizama, born in Havana, Cuba, moved to South Florida in 1960. She earned her MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and her BFA from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. Her black and white hand colored photography depicts unusual environments and objects found in her travels. Her keen eye finds the unusual in the sometimes common place. Her work has been exhibited and collected extensively throughout the Americas as well as Spain.

Ryan Adrick

Ryan Adrick is a photographer, sculptor, and digital artist from Jacksonville, FL. His current work is a meditation on the relationships formed between artist and subject. Ryan is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Florida State University, where he teaches advanced and beginning level photography courses.

Meryl Truett

Meryl Truett is a fine art and editorial photographer whose work is exhibited and collected nationwide. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2003. She holds a Master’s degree in Media Arts from the University of South Carolina with additional art training in France. She has received numerous awards including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Among the many publications featuring her photographs are: Darkroom Magazine, Petersen's Photographic, and Camera Austria. Thump Queen and Other Southern Anomalies, a book of fine art photographs depicting the quirkier side of southern living was released in 2003. Her clients include Polygram Records, Sony Music, and the Ingram Group. Her works are represented in the private collections of Roseanne Cash, Chet Atkins, Ashley Judd, Vanderbilt University, BellSouth Corporation, and the University of South Carolina.            www.meryltruett.com

Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor has more than 30 years experience as an artist, educator, curator, publisher, musician, pilot, yachtsman, roofer, house painter and long - haul trucker. He is a graduate of Long Island University and the Rhode Island School of Design. His work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ringling Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo.

Robert Brown

Robert Brown studied printmaking at the undergraduate level at Colorado State University and at the University of Washington.  He received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.  For the next three years Robert worked as a master printer with Flatbed Press in Austin as well as teaching at Southwestern State University in San Marcos and at the Austin Community College.  In 2002 Robert Brown was hired at the Savannah College of Art and Design where he is currently a professor of Printmaking in Atlanta. 

Allison Knight

Before receiving her M.F.A. in Photography from S.C.A.D., Allison worked as a photojournalist in Rochester, NY, where she was the recipient of a National Press Photographer’s Association award for her Spot News pictures.  She has also worked in the fields of architectural, stock, and editorial photography, as well as digital manipulation.  She specializes in both black and white silver processes as well as digital imagery, and has exhibited her photographs here in Savannah, as well as Maine, Texas, and Colorado.  Allison’s work has been included in various publications and is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Ft. Collins, Colorado.  She is currently an adjunct instructor at S.C.A.D. teaching both digital and silver-based photography.

Gil Leebrick

Gil Leebrick is currently the director of the Wellington B. Gray Gallery at East Carolina University where he also serves as an associate professor teaching graduate students in photo-based media. He is the recipient of two North Carolina Arts Council grants and a Southeastern NEA grant.  His photographs have been seen in over 150 exhibitions and reside in numerous public and private collections. Gil would like to look at the work of perspective graduate students.

Mark Malloy

Mark Malloy is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC (where’s Ann Arbor?). He received his MFA from SCAD in 2002, and is currently a Masters candidate in Media Studies & Film at New School University in New York City. His work has been exhibited in the US and abroad, and will be exhibited next week in West Chelsea in New York City. Mark is also the husband of award-winning photojournalist Heather McClintock.

Easton Selby

Graduated from Delta State University, Cleveland, MS, with a BFA in Photography.  In 2006 Easton received an MFA from Clemson University where he studied under Sam Wang.  His photographs deal with the strange dichotomy of Religion and Iconography found with in the deep South.  Currently, Easton resides in Nashville, TN where he teaches all levels of photography between Lipscomb and Belmont Universities.

Ansley Simmons

Ansley Simmons is a photographer, designer, and educator from a rural town in Georgia. She seeks to portray the solitary beauty in the decaying, the mundane, and the abandoned through documenting her family, remnants, and the South. Ansley is a 2nd-year Arts Administration Doctoral student at Florida State University. She completed her MFA at FSU in 2004.     www.AnsleySimmons.com

Robert W. Wilson

Robert Wilson has been involved with commercial advertising for over 25 years. Prior to pursuing his MFA in photography, he was Vice President Creative Director for Macy's in New York where he had the largest retail creative staff in the country (including 26 photographers). In addition, he has held  Creative Director positions for Sports Authority, Petco and Oshman's Sporting Goods.

Portfolio Reviewers