Photography Faculty

Meet our Photography Faculy

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  • Sam Fritch smiling at the camera.

    Sam Fritch

    Assistant Professor

    Sam Fritch is a photographer whose work seeks to explore the essence of diverse groups, from gun owners to community gardeners to Tyler’s transgender community. This concept extends into his commercial photography business, where he captures the…

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  • Dilmar Mauricio Gamero looking at the camera.

    Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, PhD

    Program Head and Assistant Professor

    Dilmar M. Gamero S. Ph.D. is a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based visual artist, educator, and researcher with studies in audiovisual communication, philosophy, theology, and art education. He specializes in documentary production, fine art…

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  • headshot of Troy Louis Holleman

    Troy Louis Holleman

    Adjunct Faculty

    Troy Holleman is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia. He received his master's degree in photography with a certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2017. In 2018,…

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  • Headshot of Brad Jamula

    Brad Jamula

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Brad Jamula incorporates photography into a larger constellation of ideas and mediums to explore issues of identity and connection, as well as to examine structures that define our shared and individual experiences. MFA, Tyler School of Art…

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  • Jille Mandel

    Jille Mandel

    Assistant Department and Program Coordinator

    BFA, Photography, Tyler School of Art and Architecture  Special Interests in photography, visual arts, illustration, and supporting art students through their education. 

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  • Rebecca Michaels

    Rebecca Michaels

    Associate Professor

    Rebecca Michaels’ background includes extensive experience as an educator, photographer and design professional. She is deeply committed to and passionate about the education of the visual artist and the role of critical thinking in creating…

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  • Eileen Neff

    Eileen Neff

    Adjunct Faculty

    Eileen Neff has been working with photo-based images and photo/installations since 1980. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, and Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City. In 2007, the Institute of…

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  • Laurie Beck Peterson

    Laurie Beck Peterson

    Adjunct Faculty

    Laurie Beck Peterson prefers working in 19th-century photo processes. Her work in gum bichromate, cyanotype and platinum palladium explores a renewed commitment to "slow art." Working collaboratively with the architecture program, Laurie and her…

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  • Kaitlin Santoro

    Kaitlin Santoro

    Adjunct Faculty

    Kaitlin Santoro is an interdisciplinary artist who explores time, impermanence, loss, and memory. Working across photography, video, glass, and printmaking, her work shows the fragility of the mind and the fleeting nature of time. MFA, Tyler…

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  • Mollie Schaidt

    Mollie Schaidt

    Adjunct Faculty

    Mollie Schaidt, a photographer and sculptor from Virginia, is concerned with systemic issues and social injustices impacting the lower socio-economic class in the United States. She examines the long-term effect of poverty on this population…

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  • Idalia Vasquez-Achury

    Idalia Vasquez-Achury

    Adjunct Faculty

    Idalia Vasquez-Achury explores transitions, ambiguity, and the fluidity of diasporic experience. Working across photography, installation, performance, and artist books, she fuses factual and fictional elements to challenge linear and monolithic…

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  • Bridget Wiese

    Bridget Wiese

    Adjunct Faculty

    As a lens-based artist, Bridget Wiese uses her background in architecture to create interdisciplinary works centering around the concept of alternative domestic spaces. Her current work combines miniature rooms and digital manipulation to create…

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  • Mark Winicov

    Mark Winicov

    Adjunct Faculty

    www.markwinicov.com Mark Winicov is a visual artist working within the photographic medium. His work is derived from both analog and digital practices with an interest in the constructed image. He has extensive experience in the commercial space…

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  • Tamsen Wojtanowski

    Tamsen Wojtanowski

    Adjunct Faculty

    Tamsen Wojtanowski believes in art and its ability to open an individual's world up to new experiences and conclusions. In her studio practice, she explores the materiality of the photographic medium. Interested in where photography might…

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