STAFF

Deborah Espinosa, M.A., J.D. • Director of Engagement • sameskyphoto.com

Deborah Espinosa is an at attorney-at-law and a visual storyteller-at-heart. She serves as CENTER’s Director of Engagement.

Deborah combines her legal and photographic training to collaborate and advocate with marginalized communities to bring little-known injustices into the light, both in the United States and in the global south, with the goal of legal and social reform. She is a We, Women artist and her work has been exhibited in galleries and public venues in Chicago, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle as well as at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Luanna S. Gomez, Ph.D. • Projects Manager

Luanna Gomez is a STEM educator who also pursues her own visual arts practice. She serves as CENTER’s Projects Manager.

Luanna is a former board director and treasurer of Blue Earth Alliance, and a long time volunteer for cultural heritage and fine arts organizations in the Seattle area including the Frye Art Museum and Artist Trust. She is a founding member of FAIR Collective, a not-for-profit association of primarily BIPOC exhibition designers. Her professional focus is in antiracism education within institutions of cultural heritage and the arts. She serves as board director for Living with Conviction, Seattle, WA.

Whitney E. Wernick • Programs Manager • whitneywernick.com

Whitney E. Wernick is an artist who shares her connection with nature, her body, and today’s harsh yet beautiful world. Wernick’s focus includes self-portraits, the natural world, exploring the female experience, and abstract nude photography while highlighting the world’s controversial, social, and environmental issues she experiences.

Wernick has participated on a panel of jurors for the reFocus Black and White Photo Awards (2022) and the CENTER Social Award (2021). She has co-curated and had a hand in producing the following exhibitions hosted by CENTER – Climate Truth in the Anthropocene (2019), The Big Reveal (2019), Splendor & Misery: Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin (2018), Color Cue (2018), and Conjured Futures (2018).

Receiving a BFA in Photographic and Studio Art practices from Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Wernick lived in and around Santa Fe, NM, for eight years before moving back to DFW, TX. She has worked with CENTER since 2016, starting as a volunteer for Review Santa Fe, she is currently the Programs Manager.

Laura Wzorek Pressley • Executive Director

Laura Wzorek Pressley is a Certified Executive Director who has been at the helm of CENTER in Santa Fe for 12 years. She directs one of the most effective outcome-driven programs for photographers in the world, CENTER’s annual juried photographic portfolio review event, the Review Santa Fe Photo Festival. In addition to high-impact, outcome-driven programs, CENTER fosters an esteemed network of professionals that includes book publishers, curators, editors, gallerists, and many of today’s leading thinkers in imaging.

Laura has curated or produced exhibitions, including The Dispossessed (2016), The Frontier (2016), Art & Oppression (2017), Conjured Futures (2018), co-curated the Korea International Photo Festival, and works collaboratively with partner venues for local and international festivals. A contributor to photography festivals around the globe including the Rencontres d’ Arles (France), Cortona on the Move (Italy), and Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival (Japan), she interprets and presents on contemporary lens-based practice as a portfolio reviewer, serves on judging panels, and is a nominator for photographic awards.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Evan Anderman, Ph.D. • Board President & Photographer • evananderman.com

Evan Anderman, Ph.D. (b. 1964 Denver, CO) is a Denver-based social landscape photographer who seeks to challenge the intricate relationship between human development and the natural world.  His aerial and terrestrial photography endeavors to bring into focus the difficult to see wide-spread elements of the way our society uses the land.  His work can be found in the collection of the Denver Art Museum and many private collections across the country and has been exhibited at institutions nationally and internationally.  He received a BSE in Geological Engineering from Princeton University and an MSE and Ph.D. in Geological Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.

He has served on numerous non-profit boards and as an alumnus of Review Santa Fe is currently the President of the Board of CENTER in Santa Fe, NM.

Reid Callanan • Board Treasurer & Director, Santa Fe Workshops • reidcallanan.com

Reid Callanan is the Founder and Director of the Santa Fe Workshops, currently in its 31st year offering photography and writing workshops to the international imaging community. In addition to workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico, there are also educational programs in Havana, Cuba, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 1994 Reid founded the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography, now known as CENTER, and is currently Vice-President of its Board of Directors. He serves on the President’s Council for Texas Photographic Society, on the Board for American Society of Media Photographers Foundation, and on the Advisory Board for Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion.

Reid started photographing in 1974 during a semester abroad at Richmond College in London and has been making images ever since using a variety of photographic processes including silver halide, Polaroid imagery, and now digital capture. His photographic projects include a personal diary of images called HOMESCAPES, black-and-white portraits made in Cuba and Mexico, and most recently, iPhone travel images posted to Instagram.

Stuart Cohen • Photographer & Author

Stuart Cohen is a graduate of Yale and trained in photography at the New England School of Photography in Boston. His commercial photography career from 1972 to the early 2000s covered a wide variety of assignments, primarily on location domestically and overseas. He was active in stock photography during its heyday when he was represented by major stock agencies in Boston and New York. His images are in the collection of the Smithsonian and other museums. His website ParisBW.com displays a series of black and white images that illustrate his long love affair with Paris.

Stuart has written 3 consumer books and numerous articles about the profession of photography for the trade press, especially on subjects concerning future trends and professional ethics. More recently, since giving up shooting commercial assignments, he has served as the head of a symphony orchestra, president of a synagogue and on several non-profit boards and committees. He is the father of two grown daughters, Elizabeth and Caroline, and lives in Santa Fe.

Beverly Martin • Educator & Designer

A former educator and interior designer, Beverly Martin’s international background includes working closely with the head of Malawi Broadcasting in Africa. Her former board service includes Discover Dance, A Contemporary Theatre, and Henry Gallery of the University of Washington where she was the Board President and continues to serve on the Advisory Council.

Peter Ogilvie • Photographer • ogilviephoto.com

Raised in southern California, Peter Ogilvie studied Art and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he turned to documentary films as his means of expression. Filmmaking lead to still photography, both fine art, and commercial.

Pursuing his career in advertising, fashion, and fine art photography he has lived in San Francisco, Milan, Paris, New York, and now New Mexico. He has traveled the world on assignments and has won numerous advertising and graphic awards for his work. The journey continues. His passion endures. He still loves creating and looking at images. Ogilvie currently serves on the Board at CENTER, ASMP-NM, and APA NY with the goal of helping the next generation find possibilities.

Roland Pabst • Photographer & Engineer • rolandpabst.com

Roland Pabst was born in Switzerland and earned a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering. He has traveled and lived in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and Canada. Besides commissioning power plants and container glass companies, he photographed company needs from marketing to insurance claims.

In 1999 he moved to New York and became a citizen in 2008. Besides his engineering, he worked part-time at a photography store, was a Teaching Assistant at the ICP (International Center of Photography), and taught photography semester classes at Molloy College and Community College in NYC. While in New York, he had photo assignments including the Hudson Institute, Financial Communication Services, International Advertising Association, and Allianz Global Investors. He has exhibited at Art Galleries in SOHO and Art Fairs in Brooklyn.

“I am so excited to live now in Santa Fe, where nature and art melt together.”

Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D. • Scholar, Curator & Dean of the Yale School of Art, Yale University

Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D., is a Scholar, Curator and is currently the Dean at the Yale School of Art, Yale University. She was a professor and administrator for sixteen years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New Mexico where she was dean of the College of Fine Arts at UNM from 2012 until 2019, when she became provost of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. As a community arts scholar, Pinder has been committed to community engagement and interdisciplinary initiatives. Her efforts at the UNM Art Museum at UNM resulted in an annual “all-arts day” titled ArtUnexpected, and as interim museum director, she began the multi-city initiative, PhotoSummer to promote the programming around photography and facilitated this event across NM.

Before and during her teaching career, she worked in the education and curatorial departments in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters in New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Pinder has been published in the Art Journal, Art Bulletin, and Third Text. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon, Ford, and Henry Luce Foundations, among others.

Dyanna Taylor • Board Secretary & Cinematographer • grabahunkoflightning.com

Dyanna Taylor is an Emmy Award-winning Director, Cinematographer, and Director of Photography whose prominent career in documentaries and features has also earned her a shared Peabody Award and the honored Muse Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement in Cinematography from New York Women in Film and Television. She has traveled the world lensing and directing films, documentaries, and television specials on social issues and environmental/wildlife concerns with extensive credits, including work for all of the major US network and cable media organizations: HBO, PBS, ABC, CBS, National Geographic, and recently as CHINA Scenic Unit Director for the Disney film “MULAN.”

As Director/Director of Photography, Dyanna produced Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning (for which she received an NEH Production Grant) which aired on American PBS and TV in Ontario, Canada, and Europe. Dyanna is Lange’s granddaughter and has been deeply influenced by her grandmother’s sensibility and esthetic. Dyanna guest lectures and teaches at museums, universities, and film events on subjects covering filmmaking, cinematography, women in film, and screenings of her films. Book her through the grabahunkoflightning.com website.

Will Wilson • Photographer & Program Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College • willwilson.photoshelter.com

Will Wilson’s art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice. He is a Diné photographer and trans-customary artist who spent his formative years living on the Navajo Nation. Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and art history at the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002) and Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History, 1993). In 2007, Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, in 2010 the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, and in 2016 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts (1999-2000), Oberlin College (2000-01), and the University of Arizona (2006-08). In 2017, Wilson’s received the NM Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2020, Wilson was the Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery. Wilson is Program Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College.

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