Bio:
Ry Allred began his journey with photography by working at a dark room in high school. Since then he has worked in digital labs, assisted photographers in their studio and produced two self-published books of photography. For the past six years, Ry has been the Head of Operations at Pier 24 Photography. In this role he has overseen image production for numerous publications by the Pier as well as being heavily involved with the production of exhibitions for a variety of artists.

Interested in:
Contemporary straight photography with a focus on sequential storytelling and the meanings behind images.

Bio:
Peggy Sue Amison, is Artistic Director of East Wing a platform for photography founded in Doha, Qatar (2015 - present). As curator, writer, producer, and consultant, Peggy Sue collaborates with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. She has curated exhibitions in multiple locations in Europe, the United States, and China. She also writes for photographic publications and artist catalogues.

Prior to her work with East Wing, Peggy Sue was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in County Cork, Ireland and Board Member of Belfast Photo Festival in Northern Ireland.

With a history of mentoring artists on long-term photographic projects and supporting the development of new and innovative photography, Peggy Sue has been a long-time supporter for photographers on project development, distribution and strategies for promotion both through her work with East Wing and as a free-lance curator. Originally from the United States, Peggy Sue lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Interested in:
East Wing represents artists who explore subjects ranging from science and the environment to contemporary criticism and issues of identity. As a reviewer, Peggy Sue is interested in viewing projects in development or finished bodies of work that are deeply researched, with an innovative point of view. She is not interested in viewing commercial works, nudes or fashion. Presently East Wing works as an on-line digital gallery, and does not have a physical exhibition space, so she is unable to offer exhibition opportunities at this time.

Bio:
Johnna Arnold is an artist, photographer, educator and urban gardener based in Oakland, CA. Her work researches the interconnections between our lives and the environments we create. Johnna’s recent projects include analog photograms made from used motor oil, prints made from crude oil, and a participatory meditation project. Johnna has a BFA from Bard College (1996) and an MFA from Mills College (2005). Between degrees she taught at an educational farm and toured with the Bread and Puppet theater. She has exhibited at venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She has taught classes in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of San Francisco.

Johnna has two upcoming exhibitions. The Expanding Space Project is part of "Creative Attention" at the Palo Alto Art Center, as well as a solo exhibition at the Sarah Shepard Gallery, opening March 2022.

Interested in:
Photography that questions or at least considers its role within society. Photography made with, for, or about the environment.

Bio:
Bob Aufuldish is a partner in the San Francisco area-based graphic design firm Aufuldish & Warinner and a professor at the California College of the Arts (CCA), where he’s taught design and typography since 1991. He’s been designing books for nearly 30 years. See the work at aufwar.com.

Interested in:
I can best help people who are interested in seeing their work in book form, especially those who may have put a maquette together. I am not a publisher, but have worked with many artists, organizations, and publishers in the creative process of book production.

Bio:
Jonathan Blaustein is an artist, writer and educator, with extensive expertise in photo-book publishing. His work has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in the US, and resides in several important collections, including the Library of Congress and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Jonathan spent 6 years as a critic for the NYT Lens Blog, and has been a weekly columnist at the popular industry blog A Photo Editor since 2011. He taught photography at UNM-Taos for many years, and currently runs the Antidote Photo Retreat program at his family horse farm outside Taos, NM. "Extinction Party," his first monograph, was published by Yoffy Press in 2020.

Interested in:
I'm most interested in seeing fine art photography, photojournalism, and documentary work with a fresh perspective. I'm also open to seeing video projects, 'zines/books and non-traditional storytelling concepts.

Bio:
Artist Debra Bloomfield has worked in the landscape for over 35 years. Her poetic, large-scale color photographs draw on the visual language of metaphor and explore the relationship between interiority and the external world. Her images have been described as infused with a magnificent unpredictability, and emanating a sense of hope. The contemplative nature of Bloomfield’s work invites the viewer into the relationship created within the photograph. Minimal, and ethereal, Debra Bloomfield produces beautifully composed works conflate individual and universal experience.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
Kai Caemmerer is the Curator of Photography for SFO Museum, the AAM accredited museum located in the San Francisco International Airport. SFO Museum has multiple galleries dedicated to the exhibition of photography, with expansions planned through 2027. Originally from Washington State, Kai holds a BA and MFA in photography. Prior to joining the team at SFO Museum, he worked with the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, IL. Recent exhibitions include Teresa Eng & Jessica Chou: First-Generation, Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension, Richard Barnes: Murmur, Anastasia Samoylova: Landscape Sublime, and Mimi Plumb: What is Remembered. Additional information about SFO Museum’s photography program can be found here.

Interested in:
As a reviewer, Kai is open to discussing projects at all stages of completion, but is particularly interested in seeing cohesive bodies of work that are suitable for exhibition.

Bio:
Linda Connor received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her Masters from the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago. In 1969 she joined the photography faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute where she continues teaching. Known for her photographs of landscape and of sacred sites from many parts of the world, her work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. Connor is the founder of the nonprofit, PhotoAlliance. She is represented by the Haines Gallery, San Francisco and has published the monographs Odyssey, 2008, with Chronicle Books, San Francisco, and Constellations and Linda's Ornaments, with Datz Press, Korea, 2021.

Interested in:
Work in progress or that needs organization/sequencing. Work that is personal and has to be made.

Bio:
Co-owners Jan Potts and Elizabeth Corden operated Corden Potts Gallery at 49 Geary St. in San Francisco for ten years from 2009 through 2019. We still maintain a website and feature exhibits on our landing page 4-5 times a year. We are dedicated to supporting emerging and mid-career artists. We’ve had the opportunity to participate in major portfolio review events such as FotoFest, Houston and Paris, Photolucida, Portland, Filter, Chicago and Medium, San Diego. We also were honored to jury several calls-for-entry at photography organizations nation-wide and participate in Critical Mass annually. Through these experiences we have established a solid roster of photographic artists both local and international.

Interested in:
Open to all types of work.

Rohan DaCosta is a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago, based in Oakland, working primarily through photography, writing, and song. His book, The Edge of Fruitvale, was published by Nomadic Press on April 28, 2018, and has been nominated for a California Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. His portrait photography has been featured at The Flight Deck Gallery, Root Division Gallery, and Joyce Gordon Gallery, and Mercury Twenty Gallery. In 2018, he was awarded the Individual Artist Funding Grant by the City of Oakland for his arts exhibition on intersectional resistance, Trap : Trauma : Transformation (April 9 – May 18). Rohan currently serves as a board member on the Alameda County Arts Commission and is currently Exhibition Coordinator / Curator for the East Bay Photo Collective.

Interested in:
I am interested in seeing creative portrait photography, film street photography, and photo collages.

Bio:
Hello image-makers, I'm looking forward to meeting you. I started my art career professionally 17 years ago when I received my MFA degree. These days you can find me at San Jose State University, where I am the coordinator of the Photo Program. I love all aspects of photography, from 19th-century experimental processes to the current definition of what a photograph is today. I'm looking forward to seeing how you define photography. Come on by! Binh Danh website.

Interested in:
I'm interested in seeing experimental processes with the medium and work about identity in how you define that for yourself.

Bio:
Janet Delaney’s photographic work draws on research, close observation and personal experience to represent how we live in cities.

She has published three books: South of Market (MACK, 2013), a document of the transformation of a working-class neighborhood, Public Matters (MACK, 2018), a record of daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco and Redeye to New York (MACK, 2021) featuring 1980s color photographs of a quieter Manhattan.

Delaney is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants. Her photographs are in public and private collections. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Janet Delaney received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1981. She taught widely and held a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley. Raised in Los Angeles, she now lives in Berkeley, California.

Interested in:
I respond enthusiastically to work that has heart and purpose.

Bio:
Michelle Dunn Marsh has spent the last twenty years as a professional viewer of significant photographs. Those she responds have ended up in books, exhibitions, and public programs throughout the United States and around the world. She is the author of Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, and the co-founder and publisher of Minor Matters. She has held executive and creative roles in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City.

Interested in:
I am not interested in seeing commercial portfolios. I am interested in longterm projects that are pushing our understanding of the medium in object form, and of each other.

Bio:
Genevieve is a visuals editor and creative producer based in California. She draws on six years of experience as Senior Photo Editor at The New Yorker magazine, where she commissioned and produced original photography for the weekly publication. Prior to that, she worked at VII Photo, the international collective of photojournalists, where she oversaw the agency archive of more than 80,000 artist assets and produced a variety of exhibitions in partnership with photographers, publishers and cultural institutions. Genevieve is currently based in the Bay Area where she has consulted for a variety of clients including Airbnb, The California Sunday Magazine, Google, National Geographic, The New York Times and Pop-Up Magazine.

Interested in:
Reportage, portraiture, conceptual but very open.

Bio:
Erica Garber is the Director of Development for CatchLight, a SF-based nonprofit that borrows from the practices of art, journalism, and social justice to leverage the power of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. She has worked in the Bay Area and New York for nearly 20 years as a curator for private collectors as well as at organizations including MoAD, International Arts & Artists, Art Resource, and Frank Bette Center for the Arts. In 2011, she was awarded a OYASAF Fellowship to study contemporary art in Lagos, Nigeria. She earned a BFA in Art Education at the University of Arizona and a MA in Modern Art History: Critical and Curatorial Studies at Columbia University.

Interested in:
I love looking at all kinds of photography. Recently, I have been interested in how some artists and documentary photographers are revisiting and reinventing archives.

Bio:
Lonnie Graham, a Pew Fellow and Penn State Professor is former director of Photography at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in Pittsburgh, PA, where he developed innovative projects cited as a National Model for Arts Education. Professor Graham is currently Board Chair of San Francisco Art Institute. He created the “African/American Garden Project,” a cultural exchange between urban mothers and Kenyan farmers. Graham was cited as Artist of the Year and presented the Governor’s Award by Governor Rendell. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Pew Charitable Trust Travel Grant for travel to Ghana and is a four time Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient. His book “A Conversation with the World,” was published by Datz press in Seoul, Korea. Exhibitions include the Goethe Institute, Accra Ghana; Christchurch, New Zealand, La Maison de Etat-Unis, Paris, France, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. His TEDx talk is titled “Art as Tradition in Modern Culture.”

Interested in:
Anything.

Bio:
Elena Gross (she/they) is the Director of Exhibitions & Curatorial Affairs at Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, and an independent writer and curator living in Oakland, CA. Her writing has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She is the co-editor of Out Write: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.

Interested in:
I am most interested in multi/interdisciplinary photography -- that brings in other forms or mediums or is in conversation with the history of photography in inventive ways; I am most interested in.

Bio:
Kristy Belle Headley is an alternative photographer who works with hand application and manipulation of light-sensitive emulsions. She crafts dreamlike and etherial imagery illustrating hesitation, stuckness, and the precipice of change. Her processes include mordançage, salt printing, cyanotype, and wet plate collodion.

At The Image Flow, she is their Outreach and Workshop Coordinator, growing the photographic community through education. The Image Flow offers exhibition quality photographic printing, scanning, and art reproduction services. In addition to workshops, The Image Flow features photographic lectures, gallery space, and a one-on-one mentorship series for artists.

Kristy also works at Scott Nichols Gallery in Sonoma as Scott’s assistant. Scott Nichols Gallery opened in 1992 and specializes in Group f/64, darkroom, and historic process photography. The gallery shows a combination of established, up-and-coming, and contemporary photographers.

Previously, Kristy managed Collectors’ Photography Gallery in Marin, and led onsite technical operations for notable archival imaging projects at Google and Internet Archive. She has a BFA in 2-Dimensional Studies.

Interested in:
Alternative, historic, and darkroom process photography, early career. Digital blend ok.

Bio:
Michael Itkoff is a publisher, creative consultant and former Chief Content Officer at Britelite Immersive. Michael cofounded the internationally-celebrated art book publishing house, Daylight as well as content experience platform, Fabl. For nearly twenty years, Michael has been a leader in publishing both digital and print media.

Along the way, Michael has written for the NYTimes Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward. Michael’s photographic and video work is in public and private collections in the United States and his work has appeared on the covers of Orion, Katalog, Next City and Philadelphia Weekly. Michael was the recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). Michael’s monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions in 2009.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. Prior to that, she worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years.

Interested in:
Ann is interested in all types of photography, especially documentary and historical/alternative process work.

Bio:
Anne Kelly is the Director of photo-eye Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and has been with the company since 2006, producing and installing over 80 exhibitions. Established in 1991, photo-eye Gallery is a premier contemporary photography gallery representing both established and emerging photographers. Her interest in photography developed at an early age, influenced by her mother’s love for the medium.

As an active supporter of the arts, Kelly has been described as enthusiastic, tenacious, and curious. In the Fall of 2020, she started Art in the Raw, a podcast, as a way to keep artists connected and inspired through lively discussions about their practice and creativity. Kelly is also a contributor to Analog Forever Magazine.

Interested in:
Anne Kelly ls particular interested in photographic works that employ the use of alternative processes in contemporary work, magical realism, and images that invoke emotion and stimulate the imagination.

Bio:
Anna Lee is the Photography Curator for Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries. She has taught, published, and presented on a range of topics, including vernacular photography and contemporary photographers working in the Midwest. Lee earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Chicago and has held teaching and curatorial positions at the University of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Smith College, and the Columbus Museum of Art.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
Melanie Light has been involved with both the community of photographers and the photography marketplace for over two decades. Currently, she manages a private art collection comprised of fine art photography, works on paper, painting, sculpture, and collectible books and records. Light appraises fine art, but specializes in photography for insurance, donation and estate purposes and has been assisting with photo archive placement.She has experience publishing and self-publishing photo books.

Interested in:
Most photography is interesting to me, but I have more experience with documentary; love a lyrical line or shape, a good story and a really good idea.

Bio:
Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since her arrival at the museum in 2019, she has organized exhibitions on cyanotypes, the 1906 earthquake, Atget, and Wright Morris. She is the co-curator of Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, which pairs recent acquisitions with existing work from the collection, and A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, which will open at the end of March 2022. Over the past fourteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Interested in:
While I am open to reviewing and providing feedback on a wide range of subjects, I am eager to see work that relates to California, climate change, or communities historically underrepresented by the museum. I am also interested in cameraless photography, alternative processes, research-based projects, and series that blur the boundaries between media.

Bio:
Emilia Mickevicius is a curatorial assistant in the Photography department at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2019 she received her PhD from Brown University, where she wrote her dissertation on New Topographics. At SFMOMA she has contributed to numerous exhibitions, including A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA (opening March 26, 2022) and Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue (on view through August 21, 2022). Prior to joining SFMOMA, Emmy held positions at the RISD Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Interested in:
Landscape and conceptual photography are specialties of mine, but I am happy to look at (and help artists think through) anything!

Bio:
Jennifer Murray is an artist, educator, and curator based in Chicago. She is the executive director of Filter Photo, a nonprofit festival, exhibition, and educational space. Her research and professional practice spans photography-based visual projects and curatorial projects. Recent curatorial projects include Furtive at the Chicago Cultural Center. Murray is a frequent curator, portfolio reviewer, and juror at photography events across the US. She received an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. She teaches at Loyola University Chicago and is an independent artists' consultant.

Interested in:
She is most interested in viewing project-based work with a clearly identified concept. She is open to discussions about editing and sequencing and can provide feedback about getting a project prepared for exhibition.

Bio:
Mark Murrmann is Photo Editor at Mother Jones, where he oversees and assigns all photography for the magazine and website. He came to Mother Jones in 2007, having previously been a freelance photojournalist and music writer. Murrmann also teaches documentary photography and sits on the board of SF Camerawork. He remains an active photographer who regularly self-publishes photozines.

Interested in:
While open to seeing a range of work, Mark has a particular interest in editorial work, portraiture and documentary projects, particularly work in progress.

Bio:
Emmanuelle Namont is the co-owner and curator for CHUNG | NAMONT, a contemporary fine art gallery located in San Francisco, featuring photography and photography based art by emerging and mid careers artists in the Bay Area and beyond. As the co-director of OFFSpace a non profit art organization, funded in 2008, Emmanuelle has worked with over 100 national and international artists. Besides mentoring emerging artists for the last 13 years, Emmanuelle has taught as a visiting artist at The San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley Extension. Emmanuelle holds an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Interested in:
I am interested in seeing all types of fine art photography with a preference for alternative processes, abstract and conceptual works

Bio:
The Scott Nichols Gallery is a fine art photography gallery located on the Sonoma Square, in Sonoma, California. The gallery shows a combination of established, up-and-coming and contemporary photographers.

Scott Nichols, a Southern California native, has been a private dealer since 1980. He is considered one of the experts on Group f/64 and Brett Weston. The Scott Nichols gallery opened in 1992 and houses one of the largest private collections of Brett Weston photographs as well as an extensive inventory of photographs by classic California photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, and William Garnett.

In July of 2019 the gallery moved from the Union Square district of downtown San Francisco to the Sonoma Square, Sonoma, in Wine Country. Scott Nichols has a very casual and friendly style. This is not the typical white walled gallery affair.

In 2022, we plan to move the gallery to downtown Mill Valley.

The Scott Nichols Gallery is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD).

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
J. John Priola, a is a contemporary visual artist who using photography. His work is known refined print quality and presentation. Priola's work has been included in numerous exhibitions, such as In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, "Prospect '96" at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. His work was part of a five-year traveling exhibition “Picturing Eden” launching from the George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film. His work is included in many private and corporate collections and museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of ArtThe Contemporary Museum in Honolulu Hawaii. He is the recipient of awards such as the John Anson Kittredge Fund, Aaron Siskind Foundation and the California Arts Council. A new monograph is being published by Kehrer Verlag this year. It features essays from Rita Bullwinkel and Claire Daigle, and features a conversation with Alec Soth, both speak of the Anthropocene. John Priola has taught in many degree programs such as SF State, CCA, ICP Bard and he taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for 25 years. He is represented by Anglim/Trimble Gallery San Francisco Joseph Bellows in La Jolla and Weston Gallery in Carmel.

Interested in:
Focus on personal vision, expression and the visual language

Bio:
Laura Sackett is Creative Director and co-founder of LensCulture, one of the leading online sites committed to discovering and promoting the best in global photography. She leads all aspects of design at LensCulture including brand, website, print, communications, exhibition design and video screenings. Besides leading the creative direction for LensCulture, she also co-curates the LensCulture exhibitions, the online galleries, and is a frequent reviewer at Portfolio Reviews.

Interested in:
Laura is open to seeing work at all levels. She can provide feedback on projects that are still in the creative/conceptual phase to feedback on marketing ideas for finished projects.

Bio:
Jeffrey Henson Scales is a photographer who began making photographs at age 11 after his parents, his mother a painter and his father an amateur photographer gave him 30 years of Life Magazines and a Leica camera and has since spent more than five decades as a documentary and commercial photographer. His documentary photographs have been exhibited at museums throughout the United States and Europe and have appeared in numerous photography magazines, books, and anthologies. His photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The City Museum of New York, The George Eastman House, and The Baltimore Museum of Art.

A one-person exhibition, Pictures from America sponsored by The Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, traveled throughout the United States from 1996 to 2001.

Mr. Henson Scales is also an editor who curates The New York Times, photography column, Exposures, and is co-editor of the annual Year in Pictures special section. He is also an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, Photography & Imaging department teaching photojournalism there since 2006.

His most recent book, House, documents life in a legendary Harlem barbershop over the course of six years and his current project is The Archive Project in which he is digitizing and cataloging over fifty years of his personal and professional photographs which include images and narratives from the exhibition, The Lost Negatives.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
Meg Shiffler assumed the role of Gallery Director for the San Francisco Arts Commission in 2005. The SFAC Gallery has three distinct exhibition spaces in San Francisco’s Civic Center, and Meg curates and/or organizes nine exhibitions annually, featuring regional artists alongside artists from across the globe. In 2008 she curated a major project by internationally renowned artist Bill Fontana. Spiraling Echoes, sited at San Francisco City Hall, was the first substantial installation of Fontana’s in his hometown since an SFMOMA commission twenty years previous. The project highlighted Fontana’s ongoing contribution and influence in the field of sound sculpture, and later that year SFMOMA honored him with their Bay Area Treasure Award. Meg is also a visiting faculty member in San Francisco Art Institute’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies graduate program. Prior to arriving in San Francisco, she worked in New York as a freelance curator, researcher and consultant for the New Museum of Contemporary Art; the Andrea Rosen Gallery; and the Ursula Meyer Art Conservancy. She co-founded, with Matthew Richter, the multidisciplinary art center Consolidated Works in Seattle, WA, and was the Gallery Director there from 1998 to 2003. Prior to that, she was the Director of 20th Century Masterworks at Meyerson & Nowinski Art Associates, and the Gallery Director for MIA Gallery, both located in Seattle.

Interested in:
Photography with a social or civic focus. Photojournalism mand fine art.

Bio:
Zack Schomp is an artist, photographer and educator who first discovered photography while touring around the country in a band (he's a bass player). “Being around musicians - photography was everywhere. It was easy and fun, and I didn’t question it; I just blindly fell in love.” Zack attended the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA and later went to Mills College where he received an MFA in studio arts, working with photography, projection and installation. He has worked as an assistant to David Maisel, Catherine Wagner, Debra Bloomfield and the late Henry Wessel, and is currently adjunct faculty at CSU East Bay and Sonoma State University. His recent work focuses on wildfires from the inside out. These images cast a wide net and include controlled burns, landscapes, as well as domestic life, intended to breathe life back into the landscape and climate issues at his doorstep. “The images we see on the news and on social media are fear-based, and for those of us living in evacuation zones for three or more months out of the year… it’s more nuanced than that. There’s reason to fear the fire, but our lives aren’t scary”.

Zack has a solo exhibition - Valentine Avenue - at Burb Contemporary in Sacramento opening March 2022, accompanied by a book of the same work.

Interested in:
I'm open to all styles and approaches to photography.

Bio:
Stuart Schwartz graduated from the Art Center College of Design in 1979 followed by 35 years as a freelance advertising photographer working in the U.S. and Europe. Stuart began in the studio shooting still life images and later working with people on sets in the studio and on location. Portraiture and fine control of lighting later became his calling for both personal work and a wide variety of multinational clients such as Apple and Hugo Boss. He still occasionally shoots for clients, but Stuart spends the bulk of his time teaching and mentoring evolving photographers at The Image Flow Photography Center, which he founded in 2008. The Image Flow prints fine art photographs for photographers and artists, offers retouching, scanning and art reproduction services. Our workshops and one on one instruction are tailored to the needs of the individual photographer. The Flow gallery features individual and group exhibitions. Stuart’s personal work reflects his passion for portraiture, street photography, abstract and mixed media.

Interested in:
Portraiture, storytelling documentary, abstract

Bio:
Roula Seikaly is a writer and curator based in Berkeley, and Senior Editor at Humble Arts Foundation. Her writing is featured on platforms including Aperture, Saint Lucy, Strange Fire Collective, Temporary Art Review, SF Camerawork, and KQED Arts. She has curated exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Triple Base Gallery, and SOMArts.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
Thom Sempere has a wealth of experience as an artist, educator, curator and arts administration professional.

He received his Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Washington in 1984 and has exhibited his work in galleries and museums and is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Datz Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.

He has taught photography practice and the history of photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose City College, the University of California, Berkeley and at Stanford University in the Art and Art History department, as well as being a lecturer at Stanford in the Continuing Studies program.

His work in curatorial and arts administration began in Seattle, as curator of the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection of Photography and later as Director of Education and Exhibitions at The Photographic Center Northwest. Subsequently, he worked ten years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with that institution’s distinguished collection of photography.

From 2005 to 2019 he served as Executive Director of PhotoAlliance, a San Francisco based non-profit dedicated to supporting the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography. Upon relocating to Eugene, Oregon, he became the Associate Curator of Photography at the JSMA Museum at the University of Oregon in 2019.

Interested in:
I don't have an agenda, and so I am most interested in seeing work that you wish to share and discuss.

Bio:
Ada Takahashi is a principal with the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco. She joined the gallery in 1986. Takahashi focuses on the gallery's curatorial efforts, liaising with artists, and on the gallery's presence at international art fairs. In recent years the gallery's exhibitions have included work by Edward Burtynsky, Michael Wolf, Mimi Plumb, Matt Black, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Kenneth Josephson and Robert Heinecken.

Interested in:
I am open to seeing all genres.

Bio:
I'm a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, photo editor, executive producer, as well as a professor of practice for photojournalism and new media at Michigan State University.  

Formerly, I was the director of photography at the San Francisco Chronicle and photography instructor at DeAnza, Foothill and CCSF Community Colleges in the Bay Area, as well as an instructor in the public education program at SFAI. 

My work as an editorial director includes managing robust branded-content projects, working with journalists and photojournalists to create powerful stories on products and services changing lives and the world. 

My research explores explores the semiotics found within visual archives and methods to disrupt bigotry by filling in gaps and expanding cultural narratives.

Interested in:
To be updated.

Bio:
I have been a photographer for the past 50 years and have taught at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley among other. I was on the Photo Alliance Board of Directors for many years.

Interested in:
Fine Arts, Documentary, Cultural Landscape, Alternative Process.