Amanda Dahlgren (she/her)

@AMANDADAHLGREN | amandadahlgren.com

Amanda Dahlgren is a conceptual artist whose photographic and video work opens dialogues about the way we live as a society and what we choose to value. Amanda is also an educator and mentor whose mission is to challenge and inspire everyone in her care to find powerful and authentic ways to express themselves through photography.

Arianna Ytselle (she/her)

@ARIANNAYTSELLE | ARIANNAYTSELLE.COM

Arianna is a First Generation Chicana photographer based in San Diego, CA. Born and raised in Stockton, CA to Mexican immigrant parents, she began photographing at age 12 and has been working professionally since 2020. After starting in digital photography, she now primarily shoots 35mm and 120 film. Her work focuses on cultural preservation, visual storytelling, and challenging stereotypes through bold, community-centered imagery. In addition to her photography practice, Arianna curates exhibitions and organizes art events that create space for artists across mediums, fostering connection, visibility, and a supportive creative community.

Brandy J Sebastian (she/her)

@BRANDYJSEBASTIAN

Brandy J. Sebastian is an experimental and conceptual photographer whose work is rooted in connections to femininity, spirituality, and her philosophical life journey. Her work is derived from, and explores, a spectrum of photographic mediums, including digital, analogue, and alternative processes. She is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what a photographic print can be, beyond the traditional printed image.

Claudia Moreno (she/her)

@CLAMOCA | CLAUDIAMORENOFOTOGRAFIA.COM

Claudia is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores questions of image, representation, and visual narratives. She is a member of the National System of Art Creators and has exhibited in Mexico, the United States, and Italy. Moreno received the Acquisition Prize at the 10th Baja California Photography Biennial in 2016 and was selected for the Javier Ramírez Limón Contest in 2023 and 2024. She studied Contemporary Art at the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) and attended the Contemporary Photography Program (2016–2018). Her work is included in the First Mexican Feminist Photography Archive at the National Photo Library.

Elliott Linwood

@ELLIOTTLINWOOD1 | ELLIOTTLINWOOD.COM

Elliott Linwood is an interdisciplinary artist based in San Diego, California. His training in performance art and background in computer programming informs his use of scores, algorithms and notation systems as vehicles for story telling. His projects highlight political facets of artifacts, the presence, absence and semblance of bodies, performance aspects of identity and expressive enactments of community.
Elliott Linwood received his Masters degree from the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at San Francisco State University, where he taught performance and conceptual art. His work has been exhibited at the Alternative Museum and Artists Space in New York City, and the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts; SF Cameraworks, the de Young Museum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; and The La Jolla Athenaeum in San Diego, California. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice and other publications.

Frank Rogozienski

@FRANKROGOPHOTO | FRANKROGOZIENSKI.COM

Frank is a seasoned photographer with 40 years of experience, including over 25 years working professionally and commercially. Throughout his career, he has consistently pursued personal projects, exhibiting his work in group shows and a solo exhibition in San Diego, while also running gallery spaces in New Orleans and Little Italy with his wife. Currently, he is expanding his creative scope by incorporating video and continuing long-term projects like an Americana series and street-style portraits. Finding collaboration to be the most rewarding aspect of his work, Frank is eager to join a diverse peer group to exchange support, learn from artists with different life experiences, and adapt to the evolving landscape of lens-based creation.

Galina Semenova

@GALA_SEMENOVA | galinasemenova.com

Galina Semenova is an award-winning Fine Art Portrait Photographer based in San Diego, California. Born in Russia and relocating to the United States in 2009, she brings a multicultural lens and over two decades of experience to her work. Influenced by Russian literary giants, her portraits explore the complexity of the human soul, balancing fragility and strength, vulnerability and courage. Galina’s socially engaged projects, including Portraits of Domestic Violence Survivors and the Breast Cancer Survivor Series, transform adversity into resilience and healing. Internationally exhibited, her art illuminates the human spirit and fosters empathy, connection, and social transformation.

Israel Castillo

@iz_not_is | israelcastillo.com

Israel Castillo is a San Diego–based photographer whose work centers on documentary and editorial storytelling. Photography is his way of observing and documenting the world around him, often focusing on the quiet details of everyday life. Working across multiple formats—including 35mm film, 120 film, and digital—Castillo photographs his surroundings with an emphasis on authenticity, place, and honest moments.

Jill Marie Holslin (she/her)

@JILL_MARIE_HOLSLIN | jillmarieholslin.com

Jill is a transborder artist working on the US-Mexico border at Tijuana/San Diego. She gathers fragments from everyday life, archives and photography, giving shape to an existence of constant movement in a contested landscape. Working between digital and analog methods to explore place, memory and belonging, she reimagines the archive as a dynamic space where personal and collective histories intersect. Holslin holds an MFA from the School of Art & Design at San Diego State University and studied contemporary art and photography in the Contemporary Photography Program (PFC) in Mexico.

Kaleah Lanae King

@kaleahlanae | kaleahking.com

Kaleah Lanae King is a San Diego–based photographer, educator, and visual artist. She holds a B.A. in Photojournalism from California State University, Fullerton, and an M.F.A. in Photography from Lesley University College of Art & Design. In addition to her artistic practice, she has over a decade of experience in nonprofit & arts education. She currently serves as Executive Director of Medium Photo.

Liliana Hueso (she/they/ella)

@LILIANA_HUESO_PHOTOGRAPHER | huesoproductions.com

Liliana Hueso is a queer, bi-national, bilingual professor, filmmaker, photographer, and activist. Her work bridges education, visual storytelling, and community engagement across the U.S.–Mexico border. With extensive experience in teaching media, leading workshops, and organizing exhibitions, she centers narratives often overlooked by mainstream media.

Her films and photography have been exhibited in bi-national conferences, festivals, and galleries. As a Borderlands artist, Liliana’s perspective is shaped by lived experience. Through her lens, she amplifies marginalized voices—creating space for stories that challenge, connect, and heal.

Lorie Tancredi-Baese

@LAMPHOTOBOSS | LBAESE.COM

Lorie is a San Diego–based artist whose work examines environmental transformation in her hometown of Oregon. Working across analog and digital photographic processes, she employs documentary strategies while interrogating photography’s historical claim to neutrality and objectivity. Her practice explores environmental change, memory, and the evolving narratives through which landscapes are constructed. Through layering, fragmentation, and visual destabilization, she pushes the photographic image toward abstraction, often obscuring its referent. In doing so, she invites viewers to question perception and the constructed nature of photographic truth. She holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an M.Ed. from San Diego State University.

Luis Garcia

@LUISGFOTO | LUISGARCIAFOTO.COM

Luis is a Tijuana born, San Diego-based photographer with over 15 years of editorial travel experience working for renowned international publications. That same sensibility he has carried across many assignments now drives his fine art work — a quiet, unmanipulated observation of light, place, and beauty, showing the world in its most honest way.

Marshall Williams

@TACOSTAND_VERNACULAR | marshallwilliams.com

Marshall Williams’ photographs explore the cultural landscape of the American West and specifically Southern California by way of its unique vernacular architecture and the power of environment and place in revealing our identity.

Williams studied at Brooks Institute of Photography and apprenticed with photographer and educator Dean Collins. He frequently credits the detail rich and luminous Black and White photographs of Max Yavno as an enduring influence. Williams has maintained a commercial photography studio in San Diego, CA for almost 35 years. His fine art images are held by collectors and institutions.

Patricia Grabski (she/her)

@PATRICIA.GRABSKI

Patricia Grabski's work offers a visual journey through various influences she has photographed around the world. She applies her background as a city planner to inform her work. She explores how the built environment shapes our experiences and perceptions.

Through her work, she encourages us to look beyond the surface and discover the rich narratives that shape our world.

Patricio A. Chávez

@artphoto92037

Patricio is a photographer, curator, and educator dedicated to advancing Chicano and Indigenous arts in the Southwest. After working in New Mexico's arts community—including as Program Director for the New Mexico Art Division, where he increased participation of people of color—he moved to San Diego in 1989 to become Visual Arts Curator at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. He holds degrees from the University of New Mexico (BA in Chicano Studies and Art/Photography) and UC San Diego (MFA). As Centro Curator, he organized nationally and internationally touring exhibitions including *La Frontera: Art About the U.S.-Mexico Border* and *La Reconquista* for the Istanbul Biennale. He has taught Photography, Photo History, and Chicano Art at multiple San Diego community colleges, USD, and UCSD Extension. His artistic practice and teaching focus on visual literacy, social justice, identity, and the exploration of Chicano and Indigenous communities' histories in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

richard richard richards (he/him)

@RICPICS.ME | ricpics.me

richard richard richards (FKA “Richard Provencio”), is a visual artist, writer, and recovering comedian who primarily works in the medium of photography. richards considers his camera an extension of himself and uses it like “a Quija Board only cooler,” claiming it helps guide him to a place where intuition, chance, and preparedness meet and also “it’s got a lot of megapixel thingies." Known for his professionalism, sincerity, and cleverful…ness(?), richards has a knack for finding the exact moment when a feeling emerges and pulling it right out of thin air like a daft pick pocket or bumbling sorcerer.

Riley Arthur

@RILEYART | rileyarthur.com

Arthur’s work explores the relationship between people and place, examining identity, memory, and belonging through regional histories, gentrification, and cultural nostalgia. Born in American Samoa, her Pacific upbringing inspired a lasting love of bold color. A Fulbright Scholar and National Geographic Explorer, her photography has been featured in more than 40 outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. Her work is held in the Harris Museum, Horniman Museum, and Telluride Historical Museum, with exhibition highlights including the 2019 Venice Biennale, Ukrainian Pavilion. She also teaches smartphone photography and wrote Phone Photography for Everybody (Amherst Media, 2021).

Sangram Biswas

@HOTEMJODI | hotemjodi.com

Sangram is a photographer and physicist. His work is shaped by ancestral memory and the experience of moving between cultures and economic classes. Using photography as a way of looking closely, he explores the intersections of culture, class structures, politics, place, and time, tracing his own shifting position within them. His images emerge from an ongoing dialogue between the outer world and an inner landscape, where observation becomes a means of understanding and reflection.

Sarai Elguezabal

@SARAI_PHOTO_GRAPHY

Sarai Elguezabal is a visual artist based in Tijuana and San Diego whose work is rooted in analog photography and shaped by the borderland experience. Her practice spans film, toy cameras, and experiments with natural elements, capturing the tension and interconnectedness of landscape and place. Elguezabal explores the essence of place, the passage of time, and unseen forces that shape environments, especially in regions marked by transition. Embracing chance as a collaborator, she lets natural processes and unpredictability inform each piece. The photographic process becomes ritual—each exposure a symbolic act between film, light, matter, and accident—inviting viewers to consider the alchemy of creation. Her work has been exhibited in San Diego (The Front Gallery, Mi Vida Logan Gallery, Luxe Gallery) and in Tijuana (IMAC playas de Tijuana).

Stefan Frutiger (he/him)

@stefan.frutiger.photography | frutigerphotography.com

Stefan is a photographer and environmental advocate based in San Diego, California. He holds a Master of Arts in Photography from Falmouth University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. Stefan has exhibited in juried shows and galleries in California and Internationally. He is an active member of the Sierra Club, focusing on environmental advocacy and community engagement.

Suzanne Hansen Ofeldt (she/her)

@shewanders | SHEWANDERS.COM/SUZANNE

Suzanne is a conceptual fine-art photographer based in San Diego. Working primarily in long-form projects, her practice blends street photography, staged imagery, dioramas, and alternative processes using both film and digital photography. Her work explores memory, symbolism, and emotional storytelling through playful and poetic visual language. Ofeldt is the founder of Shewanders Photography and has exhibited internationally, including at Spring/Break Art Show in New York. She brings a collaborative spirit to her work and enjoys engaging with artists and audiences through dialogue, experimentation, and shared creative exploration.

Traverse Day Robinette (he/him)

traverserobinette.com

Traverse makes photographic journals of the places he explores. He tells stories, some made up, some autobiographical. He likes to write poetry or short stories to accompany his photography. He is interested in quiet places and of things that are not thought of as important or grand. He focuses on small details, layers, shapes, and abstracts in nature. His projects revolve around his personal interactions with the environment and the people in his life.

Wolfgang Hastert

@wolfganghastert | wolfganghastert-studio.com

Wolfgang Hastert creates both moving and still images. He has traveled across the United States for the European TV station a r t e, producing documentaries on artists, photographers, and social issues. One of Wolfgang's most notable films focused on the painter Edward Hopper, blending fictional vignettes with documentary elements.In subsequent films, Wolfgang has portrayed communities in the Appalachian mountains, showed the imaginative world of James Bidgood in New York, and presented the modernist studio sets of Paul Outerbridge. These films have been showcased worldwide.

Wolfgang holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. He has taught media production at UCSD, mainly concentrating on research and depiction of online communities. With the rise of cyber dating culture, he began documenting people searching for love online. In his works "Click Me" and "Russian Brides," he filmed participants in video forums, capturing their cyber-flirting behaviors. These documentaries have led him to further experimental exploration of how people connect with one another.