Our Educators

  • Alice Proujansky

    Brooklyn, NY

    Alice Proujansky is a photographer looking at family labor: birth, work, motherhood and identity. Her photobook, Hard Times are Fighting Times (Gnomic Book, 2023), uses archival and documentary images to look at the legacy of radical activism in her family. Her children's book, Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids, was published by Aperture in 2016. She is currently working on a photobook about culturally-responsive birth work and a photography and quilting project about psychological formation and motherhood.

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  • Christine Hochkeppel

    Cape Cod, MA

    Christine Hochkeppel is a photographer who runs her portrait studio, Salty Broad Studios, specializing in moment-driven wedding photography and family portraits. She started her career as a photojournalist working for weekly newspapers and later worked for newspapers like the Cape Cod Times and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

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  • Dawn E. LeBeau

    Wakpa Was’te’ Lakota Makoce’ (Cheyenne River Lands), South Dakota

    Dawn E. LeBeau was introduced to her love of photography as a youth and was gifted her first Nikon film camera while working in her community during the WoLakota Yukini Wicoti Tipi Camp in 1996. She is inspired by portrait, landscape, and documentary photography. She resides with her Tióšpaye (family) and promotes and collaborates on photo projects that encourage Indigenous Lakota wellness, food sovereignty, Lakota language, and Lakota kinship/values.

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  • Gayle Nicholls- Ali

    Altadena, CA

    Born in Barbados, I grew up in Brooklyn, NY. I am an Altadena, CA resident. My photographic journey started 30 years ago when my sons were born. I found my formal path as a photographer at Pasadena City College with Professor Mike Mims, as a fine art family photographer with Linnea Linkus and then a wet lab photography teacher at the Armory Center for the Arts. After spending fifteen years as a digital photography teacher at La Cañada High School, I reclaimed my artist identity during the Covid 19 pandemic. Otis College of Art & Design extension classes has been a source of my photographic revival.

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  • Joshua Watson

    Los Angeles, CA

    Joshua David Watson (b. 1988) is a photographer, educator and organizer from Los Angeles, CA. His work offers occasionally transcendent, often dry, rarely sufficient alternatives to despair. Joshua is co-founder of Art for the Isolated.

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  • Marina Makropoulos

    Chicago, IL

    Marina Makropoulos is a portrait artist and documentary photographer passionate about creating meaningful work. She studied fine art at Moore College of Art & Design before pursuing photojournalism at Brooks Institute. After working as a photojournalist for a daily newspaper in Illinois, she transitioned to freelance work and now specializes in portraiture and photographic essays.

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  • Mark Leong

    Albany, CA

    Mark Leong is a fifth-generation American-Chinese from Sunnyvale, California. In 2003, Leong joined the photo agency, Redux Pictures. His book China Obscura was published in 2004. Leong is a contributing photographer for National Geographic.  HIs photos have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Stern, Fortune and Time.

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  • Rick Ney

    Tetonia, ID

    Rick Ney is a former photojournalist and retired high school photography teacher with a passion for art, the outdoors, and education. Now living in Teton County, Idaho, he remains active in various local and national communities, sharing his expertise and love for photography.

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