2024 Portfolio Reviewers
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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.
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman
Photo Editor/Photobook Consultant
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman is a photo editor and art director based in Austin, Texas. She is Art Researcher at the Oxford American magazine. Previously, she was Deputy Art Director at Harper's Magazine; and Archival Producer on 200+ episodes of PBS NewsHour's Emmy-nominated series, Brief But Spectacular, lending atypical visuals to interviews with a variety of guests, including various artists.
Working directly with photographers, Alyssa provides art direction for ongoing projects and shorter assignments; photobook editing and design consultation; and helps artists present their strongest work, for print, portfolio, web, book, or exhibition, in as cohesive and elegant a manner as possible. She is a visiting lecturer to undergraduate and graduate photography students and enjoys stripping away some of the mystery of how images make it to the screen or page.
Alyssa works with and searches regularly for photojournalism, fine art, collage, alternative process, and short and long projects. Traditional landscapes, nudes, and ethnographic work will not be a good fit for review with her, but she does appreciate projects that approach these subjects with a fresh, critical perspective. She can best help edit and sequence bodies of work and provide advice on reaching out to art directors and photo editors in the magazine world.
Dennis Kiel
Director of the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University
Dennis Kiel has been the Director of the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University for the past 9 years. He comes to the Dishman from Charlotte, North Carolina where he served as Chief Curator at The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film. Before joining The Light Factory, Kiel was the Associate Curator in the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum for 24 years. He also taught the History of Photography at Northern Kentucky University as an adjunct professor.
Kiel is looking for work to exhibit at the Dishman Art Museum as he is hoping to add more photography to the museum’s exhibition schedule. He is interested in looking at basically all areas of photography, especially street photography, photojournalism, and portraiture.
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.
Daniel George
Curator, Lenscratch
Daniel George is an artist, educator, and photo editor based out of Utah. In his personal creative practice, he explores the ways in which cultural forces shaped by religious, political, and social ideologies effect the identity of place, community, and resident individuals. Since 2018, Daniel has served as the Submissions Editor and contributing writer for Lenscratch, an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts and photographic artists through exposure, discussion, community collaboration, and education.
Daniel is interested in reviewing well-developed projects of all photographic genres that fall under the fine-art umbrella—particularly those that illustrate compelling themes and demonstrate innovative uses of the medium (no commercial or stock photography). He is happy to provide feedback on projects at any stage of development. Ultimately, Daniel is looking for artists to work with and feature on Lenscratch.
Dennis Keeley
Photographer, Photo Editor
Dennis Keeley has worked as an artist, photographer, educator, and writer for more than 40 years. His work has been exhibited in numerous one person and group shows and is published internationally in studies concerning urban circumstance and condition.
He began his career as one of an established group of photographers in the field of music portraiture. His portraits of musicians were utilized in hundreds of album and cd covers. He has also worked for the J. Paul Getty Center Conservation and Research Institute.
In addition to being the former Photo Editor of the LA Weekly, Chair of the Photography and Imaging program at Art Center College of Design for almost twenty years, he was also Vice President of the board at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro.
Caitlin Kelly
Director of the Power Plant Gallery at Duke University
Caitlin Kelly is the Director of Power Plant Gallery, at Duke University. In addition to her MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, she also holds a MA in Anthropology and a BA in Journalism. She initally began working in photography in 1995 supplying freelance and staff photography to various newspapers in Southern California. Catilin has been an instructor in both digital and analog photographic practice in Durham at Duke and in Argentina.
Michael Kirchoff
Photographer, Editor in Chief at Analog Forever Magazine
Michael Kirchoff is a photographic artist, Editor-in-Chief at Analog Forever Magazine, Founding Editor at Catalyst: Interviews, Co-Host of The Diffusion Tapes podcast, and advocate for the photographic arts. Based in Los Angeles, Michael conducts artist interviews while investigating the creative process, presents written feature articles, and curates fine art bodies of work from emerging and mid-career photographic artists worldwide for all entities.
In addition, Michael is an independent curator and juror for a number of organizations, non-profits, and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including Photolucida’s Critical Mass. During his years on the Board of Directors (2006-2016) at the American Photographic Artists L.A. Chapter (APA/LA), his guidance produced events and artist lectures for commercial and fine art photographers alike. His consulting, training, and overall support of his fellow photographic artist continues with assistance in constructing ones vision, reviewing portfolios, and sourcing exhibition opportunities.
Michael seeks portfolios that demonstrate a cohesive and thoughtfully edited body of work with an emphasis on the creative, either stylistically or thematically. Film-based and analog process work are of particular interest for fine art and documentary photography, but are not a requirement in seeking guidance or opportunities.
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.
ELLEN 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.
Mary Anne Redding
Senior Curator, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Appalachian State University
Mary Anne Redding is a visual arts curator and writer and serves as the curator of the Turchin Center. She has written and published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art. Before taking her most recent post as the Curator at the Turchin Center, Redding was the Curator at the Sioux City Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa. Past positions include working as the Curator of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts and the Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design, and as the Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum.
DALE RIO
Photographer, Co-founder of The Halide Project
Dale Rio is a photographic artist whose work explores issues such as mortality, human constructs, and humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Utilizing film and historic photographic processes, Dale employs “straight” photography to document the world around her and also creates conceptual work in response to that world. Her photographs have been shown extensively in the U.S., as well as in England, Germany, and New Zealand. They reside in private collections and havebeen reproduced in countless publications. She has authored one book and co-authored a second.
Dale has been involved with numerous photo and art centers across the country, and in 2015, she co-founded The Halide Project, a Philadelphia-based non-profit whose mission is the support of alternative and historic process photography. In 2021, she launched Point A to Point B: analog explorations, a print publication that features travel- and place-based alternative process photographic work, and in 2022 she founded Lux et Libera: women at the intersection of light and chemistry, an initiative that seeks to recognize the leading role women play in alternative processphotography and create new opportunities for them
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.
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