Artist Bio: Deborah Bay specializes in constructed studio photography and has exhibited throughout the United States, most recently at Photoville Brooklyn and Texas Contemporary 2018. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dorsky Museum of Art at State University of New York at New Paltz. Her images have also been featured in various publications.

Artist Statement: The Traveling Light series brings together an eclectic set of influences, ranging from the geometries of constructivism to color field. After collecting an assortment of prisms and lenses, I became interested in investigating how light and color traveled across them.

Artist Bio: Alyson Belcher is a fine art photographer based in Oregon and California. Her work was selected as an editor's pick in the Lensculture Art Photography Awards, 2018. She was also a winner in Life Framer's 2018 "Face of the Earth" competition. Alyson is represented by the Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA.

Artist Statement: Ice Portals is a series of photographs of ice formations I discovered in the landscape during the unusually cold winter of 2017 in Bend, Oregon.

Artist Bio: Adam Bellefeuil (b. Detroit 1981) attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh before starting a career as a Video Game Designer. For twelve years he has worked with Epic Games in North Carolina on titles such as Fortnite, Paragon, and Gears of War. Most Sunday mornings you'll find him exploring the state with a 6" x 7" camera and black and white film.

Artist Statement: Made in the early morning light of October 2015, this image is part of an ongoing personal survey of the landscape of my home state of North Carolina.

Artist Bio: Clyde Butcher has traveled extensively across the United States and abroad to capture the diversity, dignity, and beauty of nature on film for more than 50 years. His extensive body of work has been assembled into four stunning collections which are recognized and exhibited in museums nationally and around the world.

Artist Statement: When we arrived at Angel Oak Park I was stunned by the size and beauty of the tree. Old trees have an energy surrounding them and the energy surrounding this one was very strong and peaceful.

Artist Bio: Aaron Canipe is an artist and designer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He earned his MFA in Experimental & Documentary Arts from Duke University in 2015. Canipe's work revolves around what it means to struggle with the loss of innocence and beauty in the South today. His photographs and books have been exhibited throughout the region.

Artist Statement: This piece is from my Rest Easy series.

Artist Bio: Carl Chiarenza, born in 1937 in Rochester, NY, received an AAS (1955) and a BFA (1957) from Rochester Institute of Technology, a MS (1959) and AM (1964) from Boston University, and a PhD from Harvard University in 1973. He has lectured and taught workshops at over 100 institutions in 33 states since 1966, and produced a variety of monographs.

Artist Statement: My commitment is to the exploration of how little we know as compared to how much we think we know; and to how little we know as compared to how much we feel.

Artist Bio: Raymond Grubb is a photographer raised and living in North Carolina. He was born in Tennessee and educated at Davidson College in North Carolina and Universite Paul Valéry in Montpellier, France. Most of his work is produced as platinum palladium and copperplate photogravure prints. The North Carolina Museum of Art has acquired three of his platinum palladium prints for their permanent collection. Raymond is represented by SOCO Gallery.

Artist Statement: While walking along the streets of Condesa with fragments of native flora held between my fingers, I stopped to shoot this self-portrait under a lamp post.

Bio: Clyde Heppner is a fine art photographer who focuses on depicting the landscape. His lifetime interest in Eastern art greatly influences how he configures the environment for the viewer. Heppner has been included in several exhibits at venues such as the Center for Fine Art Photography and the San Francisco International Exhibition. His recent portfolio, The Ancients' Views, was featured in a solo exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography.

Artist Statement: "The Descent" is from the The Ancients' Views series consisting of compositions from the Chinese gardens of Suzhou and the Huangshan Mountains in China. These locations often inspired Chinese master painters.

Bio: Susan Hillyard has exhibited nationally and internationally and been awarded eight artist residencies in the United States and abroad. She has travelled around the United States and France to capture images of birds and wild horses. She most recently had an image accepted into an exhibit at the Photo Place gallery juried by Elizabeth Avedon.

Artist Statement: This stunning image of an egret in breeding plumage was taken at Gatorland in Florida in 2016.

Artist Bio: Aspen Hochhalter was born and raised in Colorado. She received her MFA in Photo-Based Media at ECU in Greenville, NC, and her BFA in Photography from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. She is an Associate Professor of Art and the Photography Area Coordinator in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte.

Artist Statement: Currently, I am printing my Instagram feed with a technique that is unconventional, time-consuming, and yet playful, ultimately creating these hand-crafted and uniquely one-of-a-kind digital/chemical hybrid photographs.

Artist Bio: Bryce Lankard has served as an editorial and fine art photographer, as an Art Director, Photo Editor, Educator, Curator, and Principal Photographer, from New Orleans to New York City and back to North Carolina. He is a co-founder and the executive director of the Click! Photography Festival and a veteran instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His exhibition Dead Reckoning will appear at The Light Factory in early 2020.

Artist Statement: "Two French Quarter Tap Dancers" is from Bryce Lankard's Land of Dreams project. This actual framed print was first exhibited at Le Mieux Gallery in New Orleans in 1992 in the Salon des Refuses exhibit.

Artist Bio: Represented by Moody Gallery, this year marks 45 years of MANUAL, Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill's pioneering artistic collaboration. Their work, exhibited widely throughout the States and abroad, has been collected by the International Center of Photography, NYC; Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and San Antonio Museum of Art.

Artist Statement: A bear emerges from a book titled Adventures of the Flat Animal. "Adventures" is part of The Book Project, in which books are the central focus of MANUAL's creative attention.

Artist Bio: Ryuijie has steadfastly pursued his own photographic vision for over 30 years, and has acquired a reputation for his exquisite platinum/palladium prints, in addition to his traditional black and white work. An exceptionally prolific artist, Ryuijie's career has been highlighted by a multitude of exhibitions. His work has appeared in View Camera, Photovision, Camera and Darkroom, Black & White, Lenswork, and Focus magazines.

Artist Statement: The Underwater series features marine photographs taken using a wide panoramic camera.

Artist Bio: Diana Schoenfeld, author/curator of Symbol and Surrogate: The Picture Within, is committed to creative photography, including its therapeutic value. Exhibited, published, and collected internationally since the 1970s, including Berlin Foto Biennale, San Francisco MOMA, Center for Creative Photography, Barrow Neurological Institute, and Princeton. Awards include NEA Emerging Artist Fellowship, Reva and David Award, and numerous university teaching appointments.

Artist Statement: Fragment torn from earlier figure study, semi-camouflaged against glimpse of the Sistine Chapel is contact-printed in 19th century solio exposure method, toned in gold chloride. From Illusory Arrangements.

Artist Bio: Dustin Lee Shores is based in Charlotte, NC. His recent photographic work of family, love, and loss addresses the social and economic systems in which we endure. He was born in 1983 and grew up in the rolling foothills of North Carolina. He received his BFA in Fine Arts Photography from Winthrop University in 2009 and completed his MFA in Photography from The University of Arizona in 2018.

Artist Statement: "Untitled" (Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson, AZ) from the series The Blue-Gray (2016) was made in and en route to seven different locations in and near the Sonoran Desert, which is divided by the U.S./Mexico Border.

Artist Bio: Mariana Vieira is a Brazilian artist based in Colorado. She received her MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the 2019 recipient of the Denis Roussel Award through the Center for Fine Art Photography. She was the guest editor for the Lenscratch States Project feature of Colorado.

Artist Statement: Make Belief reflects on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq under the pretense of national security and the narrative that glamorizes war in the name of freedom.

Artist Bio: Born in Salt Lake City and raised in Los Angeles, Todd Walker was a highly successful commercial photographer in the late 1950s, a career he later gave up to pursue his personal artistic interests. Walker began using "alternative processes" in the 1960s, developing a unique and personal visual language that runs through the last three decades of his work.

Artist Statement: Image is from a black and white negative. Values were extracted with colors assigned to each grey tone. It is not a reproduction but an original artwork done by the artist on his press.

Artist Bio: Geoff Winningham studied photography with Aaron Siskind and Arthur Siegel at the Institute of Design. In 1969, he joined the art department at Rice University where he continues to teach today. Over a career that spans nearly 50 years, he has received two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous commissions.

Artist Statement: "Syl's World Famous" was taken in the summer of 1988 in the small town of Earth in the Texas Panhandle. The photograph was made with an 8" x 10" view camera on color negative film.