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📷 ONE WEEK TO VISUAL CURRENTS!We’re officially one week away from the 2026 SPE South Central Photography Conference!Join...
15/10/2026

📷 ONE WEEK TO VISUAL CURRENTS!

We’re officially one week away from the 2026 SPE South Central Photography Conference!

Join us in Little Rock for two days of photography, presentations, exhibitions, workshops, portfolio reviews, conversations, and community at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

📅 October 23–24, 2026
📍 University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas

Be sure to check the full conference schedule as you make your plans! Conference activities begin Thursday, October 22 with pre-registration, with additional activities planned for Sunday, October 25.

Come early, stay a little longer, and make a weekend of it!

🔗 Full schedule, registration, travel information, and more:
www.spenational.org/conferences/visual-currents

📷 LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR PORTFOLIO REVIEWS!Today is the deadline to sign up for a portfolio review at Visual Currents.S...
15/10/2026

📷 LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR PORTFOLIO REVIEWS!

Today is the deadline to sign up for a portfolio review at Visual Currents.

Students and professionals are invited to meet one-on-one with experienced photographers, educators, curators, and arts professionals for feedback, fresh perspectives, and meaningful professional connections.

📅 Sign-ups close today, October 15!

Limited last-minute review opportunities may be available at the conference, but are not guaranteed—sign up today to secure your review.

🔗 Sign up under Calls & Opportunities on the Visual Currents conference site:
www.spenational.org/conferences/visual-currents

Tāsiyān is a feeling that is difficult to translate—a deep longing for someone, somewhere, or something far away that st...
14/10/2026

Tāsiyān is a feeling that is difficult to translate—a deep longing for someone, somewhere, or something far away that still lives with you.

🌫️ Tāsiyān: What Remains Across Distance
Student Presentation

Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh traces the evolution of her photographic practice from documentary photography in northern Iran to work shaped by migration, separation, memory, and displacement.

After moving to the United States, distance changed her relationship with photography. Family photographs, saved messages, and fragmented memories became active materials, while film and digital photography, projection, double exposure, long exposure, and layered images allowed her to explore memory as something unstable, emotional, and constantly shifting.

Rooted in the Gilaki word Tāsiyān and the landscape of Gilan in northern Iran, her work considers photography as a way of continuing connection when physical proximity is no longer possible—a space where memory, love, and presence can remain, even if only in fragments of light.

📅 Friday, October 23, 2026
⏰ 5:00–5:10 PM
📍 WCAD 101
🎤 Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh

Step behind the camera and experience one of photography’s historic processes firsthand.📷 Tintype Portraits on LocationI...
14/10/2026

Step behind the camera and experience one of photography’s historic processes firsthand.

📷 Tintype Portraits on Location

In this hands-on workshop, William Nieberding will demonstrate contemporary approaches to making tintype portraits on location using a 4×5 camera.

After a brief introduction to the history of tintypes and an overview of the process, participants will have the opportunity to make tintype portraits of one another and experience the distinctive qualities of this photographic medium for themselves.

Come ready to experiment, make portraits, and explore how a historic process can become part of contemporary photographic practice.

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 9:00–10:45 AM
📍 Outside WCAD
🎤 William Nieberding

📷 PORTFOLIO REVIEW SIGN-UPS CLOSE OCTOBER 15!Bring your work to Visual Currents and get fresh perspectives from experien...
13/10/2026

📷 PORTFOLIO REVIEW SIGN-UPS CLOSE OCTOBER 15!

Bring your work to Visual Currents and get fresh perspectives from experienced photographers, educators, curators, and arts professionals.

Portfolio reviews are open to students and professionals and offer an opportunity for thoughtful feedback, conversation, and new connections within the photographic community.

📅 Sign up by Thursday, October 15.
Limited last-minute review opportunities may be available at the conference, but are not guaranteed.

🔗 Sign up under Calls & Opportunities on the Visual Currents conference site:
www.spenational.org/conferences/

🎓 Congratulations to Colby Kohn, recipient of the 2026 SPE South Central Student Award!Colby is a graduate Studio Art st...
13/10/2026

🎓 Congratulations to Colby Kohn, recipient of the 2026 SPE South Central Student Award!

Colby is a graduate Studio Art student at Texas Christian University whose photographic practice examines contemporary American life and the stories that shape the American experience. Working across straight and constructed photography, analog and digital processes, he has a particular interest in large-format photography and its deliberate approach to image-making.

Beyond his own practice, Colby is an active educator and member of the photographic community. He teaches Introduction to Photography at TCU and has helped create opportunities for fellow artists to exhibit, collaborate, and connect.
SPE has also played an important role in Colby’s development. His first South Central conference inspired him to begin working with large-format photography, which has since become an important part of his practice.

We’re excited to recognize Colby with this year’s Student Award and welcome him to Visual Currents, where he’ll be presenting his work and participating in portfolio reviews.

Congratulations, Colby! We’ll see you in Little Rock!

📍 Visual Currents | Little Rock, Arkansas
📅 October 23–24, 2026

🎟️ WE NEED YOUR HELP FILLING THE RAFFLE!Our Visual Currents Conference Raffle is coming together, but we still need more...
12/10/2026

🎟️ WE NEED YOUR HELP FILLING THE RAFFLE!

Our Visual Currents Conference Raffle is coming together, but we still need more donations—and there are only a few days left to contribute!

We’re looking for original artwork, prints, photobooks, equipment, services, and other photography- or arts-related items to help make this year’s raffle a success.

Raffle proceeds directly support SPE South Central programming and activities, so every donation helps support our chapter and community.

📅 October 15 — Submit your donation form
We need your donation information by October 15 so we can include your item on the conference raffle website and promote it before the conference.

📦 October 23 by 1:00 PM — Bring your item
Physical donations can be delivered to conference registration in Little Rock.

Have something you can contribute? Let us know by Thursday!

🔗 Find the donation form under Calls & Opportunities on our conference site:
www.spenational.org/conferences/visual-currents

🚨 LAST DAY TO SIGN UP!Today, October 12, is the final day to sign up as a student volunteer for Visual Currents, the 202...
12/10/2026

🚨 LAST DAY TO SIGN UP!

Today, October 12, is the final day to sign up as a student volunteer for Visual Currents, the 2026 SPE South Central Photography Conference in Little Rock!

Student volunteers receive waived conference registration in exchange for approximately four hours of service. SPE membership is not required.

Get involved, meet the SPE South Central community, and experience the conference!

📍 University of Arkansas at Little Rock
📅 October 23–24, 2026

🔗 Sign up today: https://www.spenational.org/conferences/visual-currents

What does a border look like when the boundary itself can be difficult to see?🌉 Performing Vision at the Northern US Bor...
10/10/2026

What does a border look like when the boundary itself can be difficult to see?

🌉 Performing Vision at the Northern US Border

Katie Waugh presents Citizens/Nationals, a years-long project of photographic and performative actions created at bridges spanning the northern border of the United States.

Unlike more visibly militarized borders, these sites often coexist with recreation, tourism, and daily life while remaining absolute federal boundaries increasingly shaped by surveillance. Through film photography, in-camera composites, installation, and documented performance, Waugh explores the tension between physically inhabiting these spaces and understanding them through vision.

Her presentation considers photography, materiality, surveillance, landscape, and bodily presence while asking how our experience of borders is constructed through what we can see—and what remains invisible.

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 10:00–10:45 AM
📍 WCAD 101
🎤 Katie Waugh

The body holds everything—desire, fatigue, intimacy, exposure, strength, and the evidence of having lived.Invictus: Phot...
09/10/2026

The body holds everything—desire, fatigue, intimacy, exposure, strength, and the evidence of having lived.

Invictus: Photographs of Angela Strassheim

Angela Strassheim’s photographs gather moments in which a woman is simply inside her body, shaped by time, experience, sexuality, care, and relationship.

Rather than presenting fixed identities, the photographs consider the shifting selves that overlap and coexist across different phases of life. Gesture, posture, touch, and stillness become records of being alive—of moving through life in a body that is always changing and always carrying multiple selves at once.

📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 2:00–2:45 PM
📍 WCAD 101
🎤 Angela Strassheim

Strassheim’s work will also be celebrated at the exhibition reception for Invictus and Todd Hido: A Series of Small Decisions at 4:00 PM in the WCAD Lobby.

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