The Society for Photographic Education - South Central Chapter will gather in Shreveport/Bossier City on Oct. 14-15 for their annual conference.
The conference keynote speaker is Andrea Morales, a Memphis-based documentary photographer, journalist and educator. Morales’s personal work represents issues of displacement, disruption and magic. After growing up in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, Morales earned a B.S. in journalism at the University of Florida, an M.A. in visual communication at Ohio University and an M.F.A. in documentary expression at the University of Mississippi. She has worked as a photojournalist in newsrooms small and large, such as The Concord Monitor, The Lima News and The New York Times. She also worked at the University of Mississippi with students in the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Currently, she serves as the visuals editor at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit newsroom in Memphis reporting from the intersection of power, poverty and public policy. Morales’s lecture will be Saturday, Oct. 15 at 3:15 p.m. in the theatre at Bossier Parish Community College. Her talk is free and open to the public.
For more information about conference programming, visit https://www.spenational.org/chapters/southcentral/conferences.