Invited Artists

Drawing on, and critical of, conventions in Western landscape photography, my large-format analogue work is concerned primarily with the nature of time and reconciling the experience of the post-wilderness with what was heretofore considered sublime. I’ve been a Djerassi Resident Artist and the recipient of Film Independent and Chesterfield Screenwriting fellowships. As an alpinist I’ve made significant solo climbs and first ascents. I received my MFA from Columbia University and live & work out of Los Angeles.

Award-winning land and underwater photographer as well as underwater photography instructor, Mike has been shooting since the early 80's.  Starting on a Sears KSX 35mm camera which he still owns, Mike has progressed through the years into the digital realm.  He has been the recipient of many awards for his photography and abstract paintings.  He resides in Encino with his sheepadoodle companion.

Paula Tremba, born in Van Nuys, California in 1955, moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia in 1976, where she currently resides. After a 24-year teaching career, she turned to photography, largely self-taught with guidance from mentors and practice. She now focuses on abstract realism and expressionism, using photography to experiment and explore. Her work aims to capture fleeting emotions and mystery, inviting viewers into a world of curiosity and tranquility. Paula's award-winning photos have been exhibited at The Bridge Gallery in Shepherdstown and various juried exhibits in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Barcelona.

David Thoutt is a seasoned fine art photographer with over four decades of experience, capturing the world’s beauty through his lens. His work spans landscapes, wildlife, architecture, and abstract compositions, revealing intricate details and breathtaking moments in both natural and man-made environments. A lifelong adventurer, David thrives on exploration, finding inspiration in remote wilderness, bustling urban landscapes, and subtle abstract forms. Through his photography, he invites others to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary, sharing his deep connection with the world and the endless possibilities of this art form.

Dana Telsrow is a multidisciplinary artist based in Iowa City, Iowa. A former musician, his current practice centers on observation-based painting, drawing, and analog photography. His work is frequently shown in exhibits throughout Iowa and the United States.

Jason Smoyer is a Fine Art Photographer based in Central Pennsylvania with his wife and three daughters. An Army veteran, he studied at Penn State and The Art Institute of Atlanta. Specializing in portraits, Jason also explores other styles and art forms. His goal is to achieve mastery while maintaining a unique voice. Through his work, he seeks to evoke emotions, stir memories, or offer the quiet beauty of thoughtfully crafted moments, reflecting the world as he sees it

Cerrina Smith is a national and international award-winning enthusiast photographer who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Her favorite elements in photography are emotional impact and storytelling. Her work is considered very eclectic, and she incorporates a variety of subjects ranging from conceptual, self-portraits, abstract, street photography, nature, fine art, minimalism, and of course anything that honors the spirit of the West.

Writer, occasional book artist, and photographer Denis Sivack has lectured on Alfred P. Maudslay, Frederick Sommer, and the role of language in photographic literature. An active member of the Society for Photographic Education, he has presented at regional and national conferences. His work has appeared in The Polaroid Book, Quarter After Eight, Gargoyle, Weber Studies, Home Planet News, Shots, and the Elvis edition of River City. In addition to fine art and documentary photography, he has volunteered on conservation biology and archaeology projects. He retired in 2011 after over 46 years as a full-time college English professor.

Jean Shon is a visual artist and educator working in photography, installation, text, and mixed media. Her work explores memory, identity, loss, melancholia, and recovery in the context of family history and surrounding community. Rather than substantive resolutions, her work focuses on the ruptures and silences produced by broader histories, mediations of knowledge, and partial memories that our pasts hold.

Photography is a nice diversion from my day job as an engineer where precision and repeatability are required. While out taking pictures, I spend a great deal of time imagining a different take on rather common subjects, be they architecture or flowers. 

Kris Sanford grew up in southeast Michigan. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, London, Miami, and New York. She is currently a professor at Central Michigan University. Her art explores mental health and relationships through the use of appropriated images, alternative photographic processes, and text.

Sarah Hood Salomon is a fine art photographer whose work challenges the definition of a photograph, explores its dimensions, and questions its ability to represent the ever-changing nature of the world in a two-dimensional plane. Her award-winning images and photographic sculptures have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows across the country. She has an MFA in photography from Maine Media College, and is a photography judge, curator, educator, and author.

A national book award-winner for Worlds Within Worlds (1989), Steve Rappaport has long since left academia to pursue a career as a visual artist, working primarily in digital photography. Rappaport’s work ranges over a wide variety of subjects, but he is drawn especially to the urban environment, to the residue of human touch he finds as he wanders the streets of cities around the world - the curves of staircases and exhaust pipes, torn posters, graffiti on walls of abandoned buildings. In recent years, Rappaport has probed the boundaries between representation and abstraction, exploring ideas and emotions that go beyond the literal. Rappaport works and lives with his wife in Garrison, NY.

Stone Peng is a Grand Rapids, Michigan-USA based national and international award-winning photographer. Using primarily white tones in the background lends simplicity and ethereal purity to a subject that gives you a calm, peaceful, infinitely deep, and immeasurable feeling. “Tranquility, simplicity and beauty are the essence of my photos.”

Janelle Mulétz focuses on landscape and farm animal photography. She is a passionate advocate for animal rights and veganism. Her goal is to spread compassion for farm animals who endure cruelties that our society would never tolerate for companion animals.

My passion for photography began in 1986 at Framingham State University and led to a Master’s in Fine Arts Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1993. My work explores beauty, discomfort, and allegory, often focusing on themes of expectations versus loss. I aim to create images that balance aesthetic allure with a subtle unease, encouraging deeper emotional engagement. I’ve taught photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. Currently, I live in New Hampshire, where I continue to shoot, exhibit, and work in the graphic print industry.

Dave Magyar, a native of New Jersey currently living in Delaware, received a BA in fine arts at Montclair State College in New Jersey and an MFA degree from Pratt Institute, NYC.  From 1970–2004, he pursued a career in art education.  Dave has been actively showing his work in a variety of juried group shows, at galleries and museums in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware since 2005.  A field/street photographer, his work is derived from things we encounter everyday—the ordinary.  Most of his subjects are realistically portrayed, though he sometimes employs digital manipulations, such as composites and montage, to present a subject in a different light.

Jenna Balogh Linhart considers herself an unruly-haired creative and a “Jill of many trades”. Based in Mountain Maryland, Jenna finds inspiration in people, place and planet, often incorporating her photography into her day job work as an environmental and conservation educator. She's a believer in photography's incredible power to transcend communication barriers, spark dialogue and connect people.

Born in South Dakota and raised in Texas, Pedro values wide spaces and tight-knit communities. His Korean and Mexican heritage, along with his time as a World Bank economist, deepened his understanding of family, culture, and global connections. His photography addresses social and economic inequities, seeking to inspire change. Drawing on his mixed-race background and experiences as a Southern Baptist Ivy League graduate, he highlights how national issues play out in small-town America, giving voice to underrepresented stories.

Guntis Lauzums' photographic journey began with the gift of a 35 mm camera for college graduation. His passion was born for creating fine art photography. He received a degree in Photographic Instrumentation after that. Today in the digital world, he exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally in various competitions and exhibits. He has been in over 100 juried shows and received many awards. Guntis Lauzums is a member of Wisconsin Visual Artists WVA  as well as the Coalition of Photographic Artists CoPA, and American Latvian Artists Association. His work is in a Latvian Museum in Cesis ( PLMC ) as well as private collections. You may follow him on Facebook and Instagram @guntislauzums. He is represented by Gallery 218 in Milwaukee.

Prescott Moore Lassman is a lens-based artist living in Washington, D.C. whose work spans the genres of documentary, portrait, travel, and street photography.  Using an intuitive approach, he searches for images that resonate, for moments of synchronicity in everyday life. He is a four-time recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship awarded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and his work is in the permanent collections of D.C.’s Art Bank and the City Hall Art Collection. Prescott’s photographs have been exhibited widely in national and international art and photography exhibitions and also have been published in Black & White Magazine, Shots Magazine, The Sun Magazine, AAP Magazine, the Antietam Review, and the Washington Post.

Penny Knobel-Besa is a playwright, director, producer, and award-winning photographer, named Maryland Photographer of the Year. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and the U.S. She is published in literary journals like Ginseng, Backbone Mountain, and Pen In Hand, where she recently provided five cover photos. Penny captures spontaneous moments of life as art and creates through her computer. She offers private "Art of Photography" sessions, including a scavenger hunt adventure at her Sanctuary Studios in Flintstone. Visitors are welcome at pkbphotos42@gmail.com.

Washington, DC-based Eric Johnson has had nearly a lifelong interest in photography. His first exposure to serious photography came in high school, where he developed his skills in shooting and processing black and white film while covering events for his school newspaper other local publications. Recently retired from a career in the pharmaceutical industry, he has always used photography as an outlet for his creative interests, and his affinity for black and white photography has endured through his transition to digital imaging. Eric has been a member of Multiple Exposures Gallery (Alexandria, VA) since August 2010,

Joyce Jewell, a Washington, D.C. native, lives in Takoma Park, Maryland. She holds an A.A. from Montgomery College, a B.A. from American University, and an M.F.A. in printmaking from George Washington University. She also studied at The Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Joyce taught printmaking at Montgomery College and designed printmaking facilities for two fine art buildings. Now a Professor Emerita, her recent work blends printmaking, photography, drawing, and monotype, focusing on the interaction of images that reflect our shared existence. Her work has been showcased in numerous national juried printmaking exhibitions.

Don James is a photographer who finds inspiration in natural, industrial, and urban environments, being drawn to subjects that are readily accessible, but usually go unnoticed. His images of human-made structures and objects found in nature blur the boundary between representational art and abstraction. He has been influenced by the photographs of Brett Weston, Aaron Siskind, and William Garnett, as well as artworks by painters and photographers of the Precisionist Movement in the early twentieth century. Don’s images have appeared in dozens of solo and group exhibitions. He is the recipient of a 2025 Delaware Individual Artist Fellowship for his work in architectural photography, which will be on exhibit at the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover this summer.

With a degree in Engineering Science, along with a collegiate study of painting and photography, Walter eventually found his corporate calling as an Industrial Design surface sculptor where he could leverage his artistic abilities. Over the years his love of photography has transitioned from Nature landscapes to an exploration of the abstract. His current images are, initially, photographic captures of paint deteriorating on rusting metal. He is drawn to create landscapes of the surreal which are emotionally vibrant and mysterious, rich in color, evoking a sense of wonder.

Kristine Hinrichs has shot and posted to social media every day for fourteen years. Her focus is on city life and the interrelationships between the architectural, natural and human elements. She has recently begun printing her images on silk and presenting them as layered pieces to mimic the way the elements of the environment move, change, and change each other. These pieces turn the two-dimensional nature of photography into a three-dimensional presentation. She also likes the contrast between the often hard urban environment and the softness of silk.

Doug Henry (b1954) is a Southern California-based visual artist. Doug’s sense of composition and color are influenced by a long career as a graphic designer working for many large and well-known companies. His images focus on the small elements within a larger frame that give a deeper sense of place. Working in both color and black and white, his work reflects both the everyday and his sense of wonder at the natural world. “I photograph what I see and try not to limit myself to any one style, genre or way of seeing. Stopping to be present in my surroundings allows me to see the small details of light, shape, and color that are easily overlooked. When shooting I focus on subject and composition and let the final capture dictate whether it will be color or black and white.”

Robert Hein has been a professor of photography in the Visual Arts Department at Frostburg State University since 2007. He has had work exhibited in solo exhibitions and juried invitational shows, like the ANPCE, at the national and international stage. He has also been honored twice the Maryland State Arts Council's Individual Artist Award Grant, and has led speaking events and gallery talks at local and regional galleries and museums. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland with his wife and two college bound children.

Denise is an award-winning photographer whose imagery is gaining attention on the regional and national stage through exhibits and art festivals. Her photography is centered around Western landscapes and nature, wildlife, and often abandoned structures and cars. She aspires to capture the subtleties of pattern, form, and proportion as painted by natural light and contrast. She approaches each visual composition with an eye that looks for the unusual in the usual. Her work is varied in subject but singular in its goal of depicting the harsh beauty as well as the fascinating decay of common and uncommon sights and sites in the West.

Michael Hart's photography journey began at eight when he captured an NBA game with a Brownie Holiday Flash camera in Fort Wayne, IN. His passion grew in junior high, where he discovered the school darkroom, leading to a 60+ year career. Based in Houston since the late 70s, he built a successful commercial photography business, traveling globally for assignments, accumulating over a million air miles. Now, he focuses on personal photography, emphasizing design, composition, and the beauty of everyday moments.

Liz finds wonder in the fact that trillions of subatomic particles pass through us every second, and we don’t even notice. Trees converse with each other over fungal “phone” networks, but we can’t hear them. Many creatures have ultraviolet properties that we can't see. So much is happening beyond our perception that reality as defined by our senses, or even by science, can't come close to uncovering the mysteries. She employs her camera to explore the intricate tapestry, infinite, delicate, and far beyond our understanding.

Carol has always enjoyed taking photographs. She got serious about this hobby in 2007 and has continued to develop their art and enjoy the great outdoors. She enjoys nature photography - wildlife, landscapes, and flowers.

Shawna Gibbs is a photographer and conceptual artist based in New Hampshire. She is well known for documenting the lives of her family and friends, including the well-received series, “Movie Night” and “My Summer with Optimus Prime”. Her work has been published in several publications including Communication Arts Photography Annual, PDN Photo Annual, and American Photography. She has had her work exhibited nationally and internationally at more than fifty venues including the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston Biennial, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Northeastern Illinois University, Currier Museum of Art, Minneapolis Photo Center, CICA Museum (Seoul), and Cape Cod Museum. Gibbs’ work can also be seen on several prominent websites including Der Greif, Fraction Magazine, Lenscratch and All About Photo.

Morgan Ford Willingham is a photographic artist and educator with an MFA in photography from Texas Woman's University. With 14 years of experience in academia and art, her work explores pop culture and societal norms to examine their impact on women's identity and self-image, using photography, mixed-media, book arts, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at Humble Arts Gallery (NYC), Filter Photo (Chicago), and Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Baylor University in Texas.

Emily Neville Fisher is an award-winning photographer based in Westchester, New York. She received her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at James Madison University, her master's in Arts Administration from New York University and her certificate for the Track program at the International Center for Photography in NYC. Emily Fisher has been in many juried national and international photography exhibitions and her current solo exhibition, "Natural Tendencies," at the Catherine Courturier Gallery in Houston, closes March 29, 2025. Emily lives in Bedford, New York, with her husband, three children, dog, snake, chickens, ducks and geese.

Cole Fiscus is a Cumberland local. He enjoys writing poetry, drawing, and more recently, taking pictures. He mostly uses his iPhone and his late grandmother’s Olympia Superzoom.

Mike Eubanks is a self-taught portrait and fine art photographer based in Maryland. His work explores subjects that are overlooked, forgotten, or slowly disappearing, and often examines humanity’s relationship with our natural environment and how it changes with evolving cultural norms.  The passage of time is a common theme, coupled with a foreboding tension that still allows irony and humor to poke through.  Mike’s work has been featured in publications, exhibits, and galleries in the USA and abroad, including Shots Magazine, Monochrome Awards, Shadow and Light Magazine, Monovision Awards, Black & White Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, and Dodho Magazine.

Sharon Draghi is a 2017 graduate of the International Center of Photography's Creative Practices Program. Her photography explores intimacy and the mystery of one’s inner world. By mixing candid and staged imagery, she creates open-ended narratives taken specifically from a woman’s point of view. Her work has been exhibited at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Filter Photo, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and The Photography Show by AIPAD, among others. She has been featured in several publications, including Float Photo Magazine, TagTagTag Magazine, It's Nice That and Photo District News.

Graham Cassano uses analog photography, historical and darkroom printing methods, and neo-
modernist imagery, to challenge the symbolic economies that dominate our social environments. His series, “Assemblages” (2024), applies spatial disruption and juxtaposition to the architecture of everyday life in a postindustrial Midwestern city, while his recent codex, “Vitrea Fracta” (2025), uses broken glass photograms over illegible text as an embodied argument against authoritarian hegemony and censorship. Cassano received his Ph.D from Brandeis University, and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. His assemblages, broken glass prints, codices, and photographic prints exhibit in galleries, museums, and art centers throughout the United States.

McCormick Lee Brubaker is a fine art photographer who reveals the unnoticed and hidden in everyday life. His work began in the 1990s with a large-format series on the abandoned Edith  Rockefeller McCormick Estate, and he continues to explore themes of solitude, light, and subtle human traces. With a background in commercial photography and master printing, he has worked with notable artists, including Richard Prince and Jasper Johns’ studio. Through these experiences McCormick brings a deep understanding of light, composition, and precision to his fine art photography.

Krystle Brown (b.1989) is a multimedia artist based in Salem, MA. They hold a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Art History and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Brown's work explores the connections between class, ancestry, place, environment, and labor, often embracing the role of family archivist and community documentarian. Combining these themes, Brown creates multimedia installations and photographs that explore the inherent power dynamics in these topics.

Jaime Bird is a self-taught street and documentary photographer. Her approach to capturing life is candid and without alteration. Her work has been shown internationally in Mexico and Australia, and in galleries across the U.S. She is a member of Group A (Pgh), Cleveland Photo Fest, and currently resides in Pittsburgh.

Barry Bellovin is a New York City-based avid amateur photographer. His passion for photography is a late-in-life obsession. Over the last ten years, he has had dozens of his photographs displayed in museums and galleries around the United States and Europe. He has done street photography, as well as nature/landscape photography. His current area of interest is abstract architecture photography, which involves focusing on details of a building, as enhanced by ambient light and shadows, to produce an image divorced from its context.  When not taking pictures, he works as a cardiologist in Bayside, Queens. 

Dutch’s photographic education is a self-taught one, and while capturing an image, he envisions the final print, ‘before’ pressing the shutter. He believes that what we observe, feel and experience, forms the core of one’s life’s story and part of his story is reflected in photographic images taken in an instant of time, his world, of that here and now. The act of processing those images allows him to express how deeply, either with awe, joy, or sadness, those moments in time have affected him, and it is how he tells his story.