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Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity through photographic portraiture. Their work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of over 40 museums throughout the United States. Their monographs include Look at me like you love me (MACK, 2022), To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015). They are the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, an ICP Infinity Award, and were selected by the Obama White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.
Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born, Seattle-based photographer and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, Greg Kucera Gallery, Connersmith, PCNW, and Vertice Galeria, among others. He is a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award Winner, and recipient of Puffin Foundation grant (2014), GAP Grant (2016), smART Ventures grant (2016), and 4Culture Artist Projects grant (2017). His work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, and the King County Public Art Collection. He has been published in PDN, Dwell, Hello Mr, and Metropolis, among others. Rafael curated Here and Now: Queer Geographies in Contemporary Photography at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh and Stonewall National Museum and Archives.
Hamidah Glasgow is the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Center hosts approximately 17 exhibitions annually and features the work of emerging and established artists from around the world. The Center has been recognized as one of the prestigious nonprofit photography centers in the United States. Ms. Glasgow’s contribution to photography has included curatorial projects, portfolio reviews (FotoFest, Photolucida, Medium, Filter, etc.), contributions to publications and online magazines and the co-hosting of regional conferences.
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Keavy Handley-Byrne is a photographer, writer, and researcher. Keavy’s work addresses issues of queer identity and its relationship to loss, mourning, and memorial. Keavy currently teaches at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; The Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI; Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, NJ; and the International Center of Photography in New York, NY. They hold a master’s degree from RISD and a bachelor’s from SUNY Purchase, both in photography. They are currently based on Lenape and Canarsie land (Brooklyn, NY).
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Kelly Lee Webeck is a photographer and visual arts educator based in Berlin. She received her BFA in visual art studies from the University of Texas at Austin and her MFA in photography from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her photographic research is related to Holocaust history, memory and education. She teaches courses for Houston Center for Photography about contemporary photographic practices such ways artists use vernacular images and textiles in their work.
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Jesse Egner is a queer artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores themes of queerness, disidentification, homonormativity, mental illness, and body neutrality. He received his BA from Millersville University and his MFA from Parsons School of Design. His work has been exhibited and published globally, and is also included in the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.