Photography Faculty

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Photography Faculty

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    Professor and Art Department Chair
    Photography

    Byron Wolfe

    • Email: byron.wolfe@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9244
    • Office: Tyler B30Z
    • Website: www.byronwolfe.com

    • Byron Wolfe collaborates on long-term research projects with students and colleagues in fields that range from visual arts to humanities to the natural sciences. He uses photography and other visualization tools to tell stories that reflect upon broader notions of culture and the constructions of landscape, perception and time.
       
      He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a co-recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Award for Still Photography and a recipient of the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His work is collected in more than 30 permanent collections, including The George Eastman...

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    Assistant Professor of Instruction
    Foundations, Photography

    Sam Fritch

    • Email: sfritch@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9000
    • Website: www.samfritchphoto.com

    • 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 faces, atmosphere and creative work of local schools, businesses and designers in the greater Philadelphia area as they promote themselves in various print and web publications.
       
      MFA, Photography, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, 1997
      BFA, Related Arts, Kutztown University, 1994

       

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    Associate Professor of Instruction
    Photography

    Rebecca Michaels

    • Email: rebeccam@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9226
    • Office: Tyler B030X
    • Website: www.rebeccamichaelsphotography.com

    • ON LEAVE, FALL 2023

      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 learning as a lifelong pattern. Michaels has been teaching at Tyler since 1981 in a variety of capacities and currently teaches and mentors both undergraduate and graduate students. Her background includes extensive experience as an educator, photographer, book artist, certified Master offset printer,...

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    Assistant Professor
    Photography, Visual Studies

    Alex Strada

    • Email: alexandra.strada@temple.edu
    • Website: www.alexstrada.com

    • Alex Strada is a multimedia visual artist, filmmaker, and educator. Through film/video, installation, sound and orality, and social practice, her work explores questions of collectivity, critical legal studies, and political transformation. Her projects are often produced collaboratively and center transdisciplinary engagement with scholars, activists, organizations, and students. 

      She has shown her work widely, including at the Queens Museum, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Times Square Arts, NY; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,...

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  • Adjunct Professor
    Photography

    Hazziza Abdullah

    • Email: hazziza.abdullah@temple.edu

    • Hazziza Abdullah uses her photography to address social issues and challenge societal stereotypes often manipulating darkness and light. She also often incorporates moving image pieces in her work.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BS, Lincoln University

  • Adjunct Professor
    Photography

    Adam Ekberg

    • Email: adam.ekberg@temple.edu
    • Website: www.adamekberg.com

    • Adam Ekberg's images transform the mundane into the poignant. In calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, he explores ephemerality with an infectious curiosity.

      MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
      BA, Wheaton College

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    Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Photography

    Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos, Ph.D.

    • Email: dilmar.mauricio@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9226
    • Office: Tyler B030Y
    • Website: Dilmar M. Gamero S.

    • Dilmar Gamero is a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist and educator. His art practice incorporates photography, film, and new media.

      MFA in Photography, Tyler School of Art and Architecture (2019)
      Ph.D. in Documentary Arts and Visual Research, School of Film and Media Arts at Temple University (2022)
       

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    Adjunct Instructor
    Photography

    Troy Louis Holleman

    • Email: troy.louis.holleman@temple.edu

    • 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, Holleman exhibited work at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China. The following year, Holleman had a solo exhibition at Tyler School of Art. In 2023, Holleman had a solo exhibition in at Carroll County Community College in Westminster, MD, and was recently awarded a development grant to acquire an...

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  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Photography

    Brad Jamula

    • Email: bjamula@temple.edu
    • Website: www.bradjamula.com

    • 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 and Architecture, Temple University
      BFA, University of the Arts

  • Adjunct Professor and Program Head of Photography
    Photography

    Laurie Beck Peterson

    • Email: laurie.peterson@temple.edu
    • Website: www.lauriebeckpeterson.com

    • 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 students built a giant, mobile camera obscura intended for use by the entire Tyler community. 

      BFA, Syracuse University

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    Adjunct Instructor
    Photography

    Bethany Riley

    • Email: bethany.riley@temple.edu

    • Bethany Riley is a studio artist based in Philadelphia, PA. She obtained her BFA at Kutztown University and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Her photographic, time-based, and sculptural work examines and grieves the idea of home through the lens of memory, archives, national identity, and land devastation.  

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  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Photography

    Bridget K. Rogers

    • Email: bridget.rogers@temple.edu
    • Website: Bridget K. Rogers Lens Based Artist

    • As a lens-based artist, Bridget K. Rogers 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 large-scale prints that skew the viewer’s perspective of space and reality.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BFA, Syracuse University

  • Adjunct Instructor

    Kaitlin Santoro

    • Email: kaitlin.santoro@temple.edu

    • 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 School of Art and Architecture
      BFA, University of Connecticut
       

  • Adjunct Instructor
    Photography

    Mollie Schaidt

    • Email: mollie.schaidt@temple.edu

    • 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. Schaidt’s current ongoing project, "When Pigs Fly," is an experiential and personal work depicting her family and their current condition in a cycle of poverty.

      MFA, Photography, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BFA, Photo and Print Media, 3D Media, Old Dominion University
       

  • Adjunct Instructor
    Photography

    Idalia Vasquez-Achury

    • Email: Idalia.vasquez-achury@temple.edu
    • Phone: 313-461-7613
    • Website: http://www.idaliavasquez.com

    • Idalia Vasquez-Achury (she/her) is a Colombian-born, Philadelphia-based lens media artist. Exploring performance, installation, and photography, her practice centers on immigration and the space of identity formation. 

      She has exhibited at venues including The Print Center, Fleisher Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia; Scarab Club Gallery, Detroit, and 555 Gallery, Dearborn, MI; Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT. Her work has also been featured in Lenscratch and Don’t Take Pictures, among other publications.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Photography

    Mark Winicov

    • Email: mwinicov@temple.edu
    • Website: www.markwinicov.com

    • Mark Winicov explores the duality within photography to both reveal and conceal. He is interested in creating works less reliant on spatial conformity, addressing the constraints of the frame and challenging the way we intuit form and scene, as well as how we expect them to interact and coalesce within a given situation.

      MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
      BFA, Arizona State University

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Photography

    Tamsen Wojtanowski

    • Email: tamsenwj@temple.edu
    • Website: www.tamsenwj.com

    • 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 overlap with painting, printmaking and installation, her resulting work oscillates between the abstract and the representational.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
      BS, Ithaca College

  • Adjunct Professor
    Photography

    Keith Yahrling

    • Email: keith.yahrling@temple.edu

    • Keith Yahrling uses photography as a means to explore the American landscape to understand its history and how it interacts with his own personal heritage. In addition to exhibiting nationally, his photographs have appeared in Vice, Wired and Harper’s and he was selected as one of Photo District News's "30 in 2015."

      MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
      BFA, The University of the Arts