2024 Portfolio Reviewers
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Bryce Lankard
Photo Educator, Photographer, Click! Director Emeritus
Bryce Lankard is a North Carolina native and graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill. His work has been published in numerous magazines, including the Village Voice and the New York Times Magazine. In 1995 he cofounded Tribe Magazine in New Orleans, serving as creative director. After Hurricane Katrina, he cofounded the nonprofit New Orleans Photo Alliance. Since returning to North Carolina, he has helped develop and coordinate what is now the Click! Triangle Photography Festival. His most recent project, Drawn to Water, debuted as a solo exhibition at Flanders Gallery in Raleigh in October 2016.
Roylee Duval
Director at Through This Lens Gallery, Durham, NC
Roylee Duvall curates a gallery of fine art photography and is an instructor of film and digital photography. He has offered courses during Click! ranging from beginning photoshop to beginning darkroom. He also creates fine digital prints, scans as well as custom framing.
Edie Carpenter
Director of Artistic and Curatorial Programs, GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art
Edie Carpenter has over twenty years of curatorial experience. She is currently in charge of curatorial programs at GreenHill Center for NC Art. Before that, she held the post of Director at the Zabriskie Gallery in Paris. She is familiar with many artists who are based in North Carolina and maintains close connections with artists who have taught or visited here such as Toshiko Takaezu who taught for many years at Penland.
Ellen C. Raimond
Associate Curator of Academic Initiatives at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Ellen Raimond holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas, where she specialized in the history of photography; her dissertation delved into issues concerning performance, identity, an d immigration in the self-portraits of Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki S. Lee, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew. Prior to the Nasher, Ellen coordinated learning communities for first-year students at KU and before that academic programs at the university’s Spencer Museum of Art.
MJ Sharp
Photographer, Photo Educator
Photographer MJ Sharp is an artist and educator based in Durham, North Carolina. She was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2021/2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night. She was a Lecturing Fellow at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University from 2012 — 2022. She served on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Nasher Museum of Art and was also a founding member of the Duke Faculty Union.
Her artwork is included in the collections of The Akron Art Museum, The Asheville Museum of Art, The North Carolina Museum of Art, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Ackland Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Henry-Copeland Art Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The Cassilhaus Collection.
Michael Kirchoff
Photographer, Editor in Chief at Analog Forever Magazine
A native Californian, Michael resides in Los Angeles, though equally at home trudging through Redwood forests, riding the rails deep into Siberia, or navigating the chaotic streets of Tokyo. He photographs with many types of cameras and film, from a clunky toy camera to the latest digital model, using each as a tool for a specific use. Michael’s fine art imagery has garnered recognition from the International Photography Awards, the Prix de la Photographie in Paris, Photographers Forum, and Critical Mass. His work has been published in Harper's, Black & White (U.S.), Black & White (U.K.), Seities, Esquire (Russia), New Statesman, Blur, Adore Noir, Fraction, SHOTS, Diffusion Annual, and Lenscratch. He also continues to exhibit his work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including prints in the public collection of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California, and the Lishui Photography Museum in Lishui, China. Michael was also an active Board Member for the L.A. chapter of the American Photographic Artists from 2006-2016 and was Editor at Blur Magazine from 2014 - 2018. Currently, he is also Editor in Chief at Analog Forever Magazine, Founding Editor at Catalyst: Interviews, Contributing Editor for the One Twelve Publishing online column, Traverse, and Co-Host of The Diffusion Tapes podcast. The wisest words Michael ever gleaned from his father were to do what you love as your life’s work. Truer words have never been spoken.
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