JUROR - JAMIE ALLEN
JAMIE ALLEN is on the staff of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York where she has responsibilities in exhibition preparation and oversight of new acquisition purchases and donations. She has served as co-curator at the Eastman House for the exhibit What We’re Collecting Now (2006) and as curatorial assistant for Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography (2006). Her professional experience at the Eastman House, Getty Research Institute, Ryerson University (School of Image Arts) and The University of Arizona Museum of Art contributes to her expansive and up-to-date acumen in collecting and exhibiting photography. She has a Master of Arts in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management from Ryerson University, a BA in Art History and BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona.

JUROR - MIKE SMITH
MIKE SMITH is a professor of photography at East Tennessee State University and a master photographer. In 2001 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Governor’s Distinguished Artist Award (TN) and served as a juror for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Photography Award. He was a finalist in 2000 in the Alfred Eisenstadt/LIFE Magazine New Talent Award and received a Henry M. Buhl Foundation Photography Fellowship in 1999. He has exhibited throughout the U.S. in galleries and museums, including Corcoran Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Kennedy Museum of Art, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and the Los Angles County Museum of Art. His work has appeared in Aperture, Harper’s, Oxford American, New Yorker Magazine, and Art Papers. Mike has returned to his alma mater Yale as a visiting artist as well as lecturing at Notre Dame, VMI, Duke, the UGA, West Carolina University and many others.

SALON GUEST - JOHN BENNETTE
Mr. John Bennette hails from Alabama but began collecting photography with a remarkably good eye 30 years ago while living and working in New York City where he still resides. Today his collection of 350 photographs is the envy of many a curator and museum. When not browsing for his next acquisition, Mr. Bennette teaches a course in collecting at the New School in New York City, travels the world lecturing at other institutions and advising up-and-coming photographers on their portfolios. Slow Exposures was honored to have Mr. Bennette as a juror for the 2005 show and a workshop instructor in 2007 and we welcome him back this year to present this workshop.

See the 'Contemporary Photography' article at the bottom of page one on Mr. Bennette.

View Article on John Bennette

John Bennette's Resume

SALON GUEST - PERRY DILBECK
Mr. Dilbeck, an Atlanta native, received a B.F.A. in Photography from Georgia State University and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He was named Georgia Author of the Year for The Last Harvest in 2007 and The National Geographic Society’s All Roads Photography Program honored The Last Harvest body of work in 2006. Mr. Dilbeck was a Vision 2003 Award Winner from the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts. His work resides in permanent collections, which include the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Harry Ransom Research Center in Austin, Kennesaw State College in Kennesaw, and Savannah College of Art and Design. His fine art photographs have appeared in numerous magazines (www.perrydilbeck.com).

SlowExposures ADVISORY BOARD
John A. Bennette; Julian Cox; Maggie Davis; F. Ansley (Andi) Kulp; Celina Lunsford; Andy Scott; Kathleen Socha

SlowExposures BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chris Curry, Director
Andrea Noel, Co-Director
Nancy McCrary, Director of Marketing
Brenda Fayard, Director of Photography
Anna Evans, Director of Children's Programs
Joe McKaughan, Director of Public Relations
Don Collins
Paul Conlan, Director of Photo Sales & Webmaster

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