Lavinia Spalding is the six-time editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, author of Writing Away: and co-author of With a Measure of Grace and This Immeasurable Place. She introduced the e-book edition of Edith Wharton’s classic travelogue, A Motor-Flight Through France and has contributed to such publications as AFAR, Longreads, Tin House, Yoga Journal, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Ms., Post Road, Inkwell, The […]
Kathleen Clemons is an award-winning photographer, teacher, speaker, author, and workshop leader from the coast of Maine. Primarily a nature photographer who specializes in photographing flowers, Kathleen is known for her creative use of natural light and unique, artistic photographs. Kathleen teaches online classes as well as many location workshops and seminars. Kathleen also filmed […]
Mallory Benedict is a photo editor for National Geographic Magazine, commissioning original photography across print, digital, and mobile platforms. She uses the past to understand present-day issues in her work, including stories on the legacy of the Suffrage movement and importance of lullabies as a tool for healing around the world. In 2021 Mallory was […]
Sean Kernan is a widely-exhibited photographer, writer, film maker, and teacher, focused on the exploration of creativity. He is the author of The Secret Books (with Jorge Luis Borges), Among Trees (With Anthony Doerr), Darrell Petit In Stone, and Looking Into the Light, on creativity and photography. His photographic work has been exhibited and published […]
Arien Chang, better known as “Chang,” is a leader within a new wave of talented, contemporary Cuban photographers carrying on the time-honored Cuban tradition of documentary storytelling. He is a nimble street photographer with an impeccable sense of moment and unmatched eye for color. His projects on Bodybuilding, Aging, the Parrandas, and the Malecon have […]
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of 34 books, including Dark Horse and In the Room of Persistent Sorry. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly, a staff blogger at The Kenyon Review, and a […]
Brooke Shaden is a fine-art photographer, writer, and mixed-media artist living in northern Arizona with her husband and foster kids. After beginning photography in 2009, Brooke quickly established herself in the fine-art arena and now has a global audience. She is represented and exhibited internationally with her work both collected and taught in schools and […]
Fran Forman’s photo paintings have been exhibited both locally and internationally and are in many private collections as well as the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and others. Fran’s second major monograph, The Rest Between Two Notes: […]
David Hilliard received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and MFA from Yale University School of Art, where he went on to direct the undergraduate photo department. He currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Lesley University College of Art and Design, and at workshops nationwide. His work has been exhibited internationally […]
Genevieve Russell is a Santa Fe based photographer, filmmaker, and founder of StoryPortrait Media, LLC. For 20 years, Genevieve has been devoted to the art of visual storytelling. Her work as a photographer and cinematographer is grounded in community documentary projects that capture authentic, personal and compelling stories. Her client and personal projects have focused […]
Stephen Wilkes is widely recognized for his fine art, editorial, and commercial images, as well as for his documentary feature film, Jay Myself. In addition to having editorial work featured in The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic, among many other publications, he has created advertising campaigns for businesses such as Netflix, […]
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, which won both the Colorado Book Award and the Reading The West Advocacy Award in 2019. She is also the author of two novels, Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound, two collections of short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, and a […]
Max Talley has had seventy stories or essays published since 2015; local outlets for his writing include Santa Fe Literary Review and Santa Fe Writers Project. He won the 2021 best fiction contest in Jerry Jazz Musician for “Celestial Vagabonds,” later nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first novel, Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow, was published […]
Elena Dorfman’s photographs and video installations have been exhibited in both the U.S. and worldwide at venues such as the Prada Foundation, Milan; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; the Triennale di Milano, Milan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in numerous collections, including the Denver Art Museum, […]
Joyce Tenneson’s images have been displayed extensively around the world, and most recently in Stockholm, Sweden where she had a major retrospective of her work. Her portraits have appeared on covers of publications such as Time, Life, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of sixteen books, including the bestseller Wise Women, which […]
David Snyder has over 20 years of experience in the photography industry, and currently works as a representative for Sony PRO Support in the Mid-Atlantic. Based in the Washington, D.C. area, David works with many photo agency and newspaper staff photographers that cover politics in Washington. Before joining Sony, David spent time working at both The […]
Called a “Poet of the Ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, and recipient of the Texas Medal of Arts, Keith Carter’s haunting, enigmatic photographs have been shown in over one hundred solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. Fourteen monographs of his work have been published, including the recently released Ghostlight. Featured on the arts segment of […]
Ri Anderson’s unique use of photography, photoshop, and print materials has established her as a digital collagist/embroiderer, printmaker, and master technician. From her home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Ri unleashes her imagination and incorporates magical realism into her semi-autobiographical pieces, which use Adobe Photoshop to create fantastical, unexpected forms and tableaux. Her work […]
Molly Wizenberg is the author of three memoirs, most recently The Fixed Stars, a finalist for the 2021 Washington State Book Award and a 2021 Stonewall Book Awards honor book. Her first two books, A Homemade Life and Delancey, were both New York Times bestsellers. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, […]
Kimberly Witham is a fine-art photographer and educator. Her work, which is heavily influenced by art history and the natural world, has been featured in Color Magazine, PHOTO+, BLOW Photo, BLINK, Foto, Orion, The New Republic, Wired (online), and on book covers in the U.S. and France. A 2016 National Geographic film, Making Roadkill into […]
