Guest photographers for the 2020 Edition

Born is Selma, AL, Jerry Siegel is a photographer living in Atlanta, GA, and working throughout the Southeast. Siegel focuses his work in traditions of portrait and documentary photography. His most recent body of work, Reveal, is an intimate look behind the scenes into the illusion created by Drag artists. His work in the Black Belt region of Alabama was recently published by the Georgia Museum of Art. This monograph, Black Belt Color, focuses on the unique, cultural landscape of the Black Belt region of Alabama.

Since I have been doing the shows, I have gradually seen these outstretched arms appear to capture a memory with the new modes of communication that are mobile phones or tablets.
They don’t want to miss anything from an event and the only solution is to share the moment and show it.

Mobile phones have become objects of sharing.

Olivier Borde is a professional photographer working in the press and his images are publicized worldwide. From politicians to celebrities and from the world of luxury to cinema, his eye tells our stories taking us from one world to another. Five years ago, while on a trip on the Sea of Cortez, Olivier Borde discovered diving and put on a mask and fins for the first time in his life. When he dived he saw a whale shark and then a sea lion further away…

From a plastic Kalimar 2 1/4, to my father’s 35mm range-finder Canon, to my digital Nikon today, I’ve taken photographs for most of my 70 years. Experience on a high school newspaper, a daily newspaper, freelance photojournalism, and a monthly magazine have kept my photography moving forward…

Mark Dauber is an author, speaker, teacher, and fine art photographer born in Birmingham, Alabama. He has had numerous exhibits throughout the United States, and his work is included in various private and institutional collections. Mark has led his own workshops in various international locations, including Ireland, Guatemala and various sites in the US. He’s also a really nice guy…

Elmore earned her BA in Math and Fine Art from Vanderbilt University and began her career in banking. Next she worked in arts administration before putting her own creative talents to work as a photographer. An avid arts supporter who describes the arts as being fundamental to all lives, Elmore serves on the board of South Arts and was the founding president of ClefWorks, an Alabama arts organization, created to promote the education and enjoyment of chamber music through innovative programming. 

At the age of 19, from his hometown Périgueux, Lionel joins a photography school in Toulouse in the South West of France. For 3 years he studies his passion, enables his creativity and perfections his skills.

In 1994, he starts his career in Paris, as an intern, at the Vandystadt agency, a benchmark in sports photography. Through the talented photographers that work there, he continues to form his eyes and develops his own gift…

I studied photography at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the late 1970’s using 35mm film cameras, and I had my own darkroom for black and white printing. In 2011 I purchased my first Canon DSLR and became focused on relearning photography in the digital age. My favorite lenses are my 100 mm macro lens that I use for floral photography, and my 16 to 35 mm lens that I use for landscapes…

I lived in foreign countries when I was a child. Overthere, I became a young photographer through my relationship to the others. Very young, I thus made every effort to get in touch with poverty, but also with the happiness, through this practical medium. Then, the ambitions came. Little by little, I got closer to the cinema’s business and the documentary’s world while continuing to work the photographic tool…

Born in France, I’ve lived in Spain and now enjoy a life in New York City.  A self-taught photographer, I am inspired by traditional black-and-white humanist photography, particularly the great masters like Sebastiao Salgado and Raymond Depardon; Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Franck or Dorothea Lange…

Warren Simons follows his own road of exploration, learning from photographers, painters, art teachers, writers, potters, and poets. Simons has won numerous awards for his work. He has practiced the art of seeing with the camera for 17 year

Vicki Hunt has been involved in the Birmingham, Atlanta, and Montgomery photography communities for the past 25 years. Vicki was educated at the University of Alabama with a degree in business, and later studied at University of Alabama, Birmingham in the black and white photography program…

Chantale Wong had a long and distinguished career in public service.  During that period, Chantale was a participant in some of the most significant events in our US history. Having spent the majority of her professional career in public service and in locations around the world representing the United States in key positions, she regrets at not having captured those moments of significance.  She retired after 23 years and has begun a new journey as a photographer…