Staff

jaguilera@pcnw.org

Juan G. Aguilera is the Facilities Manager at PCNW. He is an Industrial Designer from the University Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City . With a pre-press specialty, he has been involved in digital publishing since the darkroom days. A self proclaimed color nut, he believes color is an independent language, with a specific grammar, spelling and intonation. Juan is a teacher at heart, having taught geometry and design with students ranging from middle school to adults, he currently teaches Photoshop, color correction, camera raw and digital photography workflow in the Northwest. He is a member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) and has attended several Photoshop World events.

hboyd@pcnw.org

Hart began studying photography at fifteen with black and white classes. Since that time he has studied color analog and digital photography at Evergreen State College, where he received his BA. In addition, Hart has participated in a year-long internship as the "Commercial Photography Lab Technician/ Manager". At PCNW Hart has been able to apply all of his experiences toward maintaining and improving both the wet and digital labs. His fascination with photography has always been the translation of light to construct a two-dimensional image.
Website:
www.hartboyd.com

ebraziunas@pcnw.org

Erik Braziunas received his BA from The Evergreen State College in 2007. He has been studying photography for a decade. In High School Erik managed the Black and White lab for a year while his teacher was overseas. Since then he has worked with numerous different photographic formats and processes to produce fine-art, documentary, and commercial photography. Through PCNW classes he gained knowledge of advanced Black and White and digital techniques.
Website:
www.bphoto.biz

jbrendicke@pcnw.org

Jennifer Brendicke began working at the Photo Center as a volunteer, and in September 2007 became a member of the Front Desk Staff. She has studied at PCNW since January 2006, and is currently enrolled in the Certificate Program which she hopes to complete in the Spring of 2009.

jjaz@pcnw.org

Julianne Jaz joined PCNW as the bookkeeper in July 2006. She has 30 years experience in wrestling numbers to the ground along with a deep appreciation of the arts. Although a fiber artist by persuasion, she has also pursued photography as both a personal and professional interest, and spent nearly a decade representing commercial photographers and illustrators throughout the NW and nationally as a co-owner of Jaz & Jaz, The Artist's Representative.

apallesen@pcnw.org

© Ann Pallesen, Untitled, 2004

Ann Pallesen is the PCNW Gallery Director, a position she has held since 1996. She received her BFA from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins in 1993. Pallesen has curated and installed over 150 exhibitions including the work of Julie Blackmon, Camille Seaman, Elliott Erwitt, Graciela Iturbide, Chris Jordan, Mary Ellen Mark, Ken Rosenthal & Hiroshi Watanabe. She has coordinated dozens of lectures with artists and curators, and regularly appears at portfolio review events, on panel discussions and has served as a juror for several non-PCNW exhibitions. She is an active photographer herself and is represented by Benham Gallery in Seattle.

jriffle@pcnw.org

© Jenny Riffle, Goodbye, 2004

Jenny Riffle received her BA in Photography from Bard College, NY in 2001. She was an intern at Centro Fotografico Alverez Bravo in Oaxaca, México and then worked at Max Protetch Gallery in NYC for two years before moving back to her home state of Washington. She has been involved with the Photographic Center Northwest since March 2004. As well as being on staff at PCNW Jenny has been a teaching assistant in several classes there and continues to work on and exhibit her own photography projects.
Website:
www.jennyriffle.com

esweeny@pcnw.org

Erin joined the PCNW staff in June 2006, and currently coordinates registration for classes and workshops at the center. She has also been involved in a partnership between PCNW and the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center, assisting in a grant-funded photography program for middle and high school students who have recently immigrated to the country and are strengthening their literacy skills through the arts. As an artist immersed in the PCNW community, Erin continues to develop and exhibit her own work as a documentary and fine art photographer.
Website:
www.erinsweeny.com

avanavery@pcnw.org

Annie Van Avery comes to PCNW from New York City with an extensive background in the photographic arts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her leadership experience includes the founding of the Center for Photographic Studies where she served as the Executive Director in additional to working as an Education Director for an arts council and Associate Director of Admission for one of the nation's top ranked arts colleges. She has connections with a number of artistic communities nationwide where she has been an active exhibiting photographer, educator, and arts administrator.
Website:
www.annievanavery.com

chris@pcnw.org

Chris Williams graduated from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis in film and photography in 1997. He found the Photo Center NW in 1999 and has been here ever since. Chris has been a freelance photographer while pursuing his certificate at the Photo Center. His current projects focus on the transition of twenty/thirty some things into adulthood, images drawn from classic novels and film, and a visual diary of his life.
Website:
www.chriswilliamsphoto.com