Ann Jastrab is a photographer, educator, independent curator, editor, and writer. She is director of the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, as well as Editor-in-Chief of All About Photo.

Ann's MFA in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design led her to an extensive career as educator and curator. After ten years on the faculty of Maine Photography Workshops (now Maine Media Workshops), Ann became gallery director at Rayko Photography Center in San Francisco and made it a center of gravity for Bay Area photography. Ann is also juror or curator for many national and international events including the Seoul International Photography Festival, Fotofest, Photolucida/Critical Mass, GuatePhoto, Review Santa Fe, Medium, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Filter, and Lishui International Photography Festival in China.

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Danny Sanchez is the director at Themes+Projects gallery in San Francisco. Since 2006, he has supported emerging artists in developing their artistic vision and navigating the fine art market, with an emphasis on editing and sequencing, pricing and editioning, and strategic positioning. He has served as a portfolio reviewer, juror, and panelist for organizations including PhotoCarmel, PhotoAlliance, Review Santa Fe, Medium: A Festival for Photography, Photolucida Critical Mass, Denver Month of Photography (MoP), and the San Francisco Artist Network.

In addition to his gallery work, Sanchez is an instant film photographer and active in the Bay Area photography community. He is involved with the San Francisco Instant Photowalk and has served on the planning committees for PolaCon Bay Area and PolaCon Portland. A Bay Area native, Sanchez holds a BFA in Art with a concentration in Photography from San José State University.

Harvey Castro is a Nicaraguan-born documentary photographer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. He came to photography in 2018 after twenty years in leadership roles across supply chain and software operations.

His documentary work traces displacement, collective memory, and the aftermath of catastrophic events. He has worked in Puerto Rico following Hurricane María, in Guatemala following Hurricanes Eta and Iota, and at Oakland's Lake Merritt during the mass fish die-off. His post-documentary practice extends photography through cyanotype printing on fabric, installation, experimental film, and audio.

Castro's work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at SF Camerawork, the Harvey Milk Photo Center, and the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, as well as internationally with solo exhibitions at the Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano in Cuernavaca and Koik Contemporary in Mexico City. In 2023, he won CENTER's Multimedia Storytelling Award for his project Los Olvidados. As a 2024 California Creative Corps Fellow, he created Reclaiming Home in Vallejo in collaboration with the residents he photographed, who built the frames that hold their portraits.

He is currently completing his first photobook, drawn from photographs made in Mexico City between 2022 and 2025 and centered on protest, labor, and memory.

Learn more at harveycastro.co and studio369.com, or follow @harveycastro.co on Instagram.

Jan Watten is an active analog fine art photographer and the founder of Gray Loft Gallery, an alternative art gallery showcasing emerging and established artists in the Jingletown neighborhood of Oakland, CA. She has a BFA in Photography and Certificate in Gallery Management from the California College of the Arts. Watten serves on the board of The Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA.

Judy Dater is a Bay Area photographer and feminist. She is best known for her portraits, nudes, and self-portraits. Judy arrived in the Bay Area in 1962 and quickly became part of the community of West Coast photographers. Imogen Cunningham was particularly influential as her primary work centered on portraiture.

Judy's career has been long and varied, combining teaching, creating books, conducting workshops, making prints, videos, and photographing continually. Her work has been exhibited world-wide. In 2014 she was part of "Face It - The Photographic Portrait" at the Norton Simon Museum. In 2018, San Francisco's De Young museum exhibited "Judy Dater - Only Human", a retrospective "celebrating her achievement as a pioneering figure in 1970s feminist art and her subsequent creative evolution."

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Nicole White is an artist working predominantly with photography. Through specific narratives, she examines built environments to reveal material change across different timescales, highlighting the tenuous conditions that shape our existence.

White has exhibited most recently at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Chung24 Gallery in San Francisco, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia. Her work was published in recent issues of Der Grief and JRNL. In 2024, she was included in the +KGP publication, Of Covid and produced an artist book with National Monument Press, entitled Dream House. White’s collaborative 2021 publication, Rolls & Tubes: A History of Photography, is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others. She lives in the Bay Area where she is a Professor of Art at Diablo Valley College.

Pablo Circa is an Oakland-based photographer, curator, and co-founder of Cameras & Coffee Club. His work documents Black life and culture through street photography and portraiture, with a focus on everyday moments, community, and human connection. His ongoing project, Legacy Archive, documents Black presence in downtown Oakland amid the city’s demographic and cultural changes. In addition to his photographic practice, Pablo organizes exhibitions, photowalks, and community programs that create opportunities for photographers to connect and share their work.