Photography Faculty

Meet our Photography Faculty

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  • decorative profile image for Jamie Cabreza

    Jamie Cabreza

    Adjunct Instructor

    Jamie Cabreza is an artist residing in Easton PA. Her primary focus is creating landscapes where our built and natural environment converge and the effects that both time and humans have on their surroundings. She currently teaches photography at…Artist Statement My photographs have always been about the art of noticing – intensely observing my surroundings while envisioning both the past and future of the current state of things. Our environment reveals the mess of relations,…

  • 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 S., PhD

    Program Head and Assistant Professor

    Dilmar M. Gamero S. PhD. (b. 1976, Peru) is a lens-based artist and educator established in the U.S. whose research-driven and art practice incorporate photography, moving image, film, and new media, stressing the conceptual art-making…

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    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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    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

    Assistant Department and Program Coordinator

    Jille Mandel is the technician for the photography studio. She is guided by curiosity and applies a hands-on approach to many areas of the visual arts. Jille is here to provide students and faculty with technical, administrative and creative support…

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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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    Bridget K. Rogers

    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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  • 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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  • 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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Faculty Emeriti

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  • Rebecca Michaels

    Rebecca Michaels

    Associate Professor Emeritus

    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…