PCNW Faculty

Alexis “Lexy” Henry is a Seattle native who took her first photography class in high school. However, it wasn’t until college that it became a passion, prompted by the gift of her first camera, a Minolta x570, from her parents.  Her new obsession brought her to Photographic Center Northwest in 2002, where her knowledge and curiosity continued to grow.  In 2010, she completed her thesis consisting of 14 silver gelatin and 11 C41 prints. But her education still continues.

Lexy’s current work is captured using a medium format film camera and digital. She uses both to print analog silver and alternative processes.

Andrej Gregov is a photographer based in Seattle, Washington. His primary focuses are exploring the built and natural environments. Contemporary architecture is a special long-term focus and interest area. His work is produced using traditional analog capture and printing techniques including silver, c-print and alternative processes. Andrej is also a contributor to A Minimal Event, a podcast about art photography.

Andrew was born and raised in Seattle, WA, and got his start in photography during his senior year of high school. His senior project, creating a fashion magazine, initially sparked his interest in pursuing fashion and portrait photography as a career, which he has been doing now for over ten years. During that time he’s worked for a variety of clients producing fashion and lifestyle imagery to enhance their brands.

Andrew brings a sense of calm and ease to each shoot and strives to make everyone on set feel comfortable and uplifted. His artistic background and attention to detail enable him to produce beautiful and timeless imagery for his clients.

Andrew recently spent a year in New York where he received his Master’s in digital photography from School of Visual Arts. Andrew’s editorial work has been featured in numerous well-known publications including L’OFFICIEL Hommes, Man of Metropolis, LUCY’S magazine, Men’s Style Brazil, and many more.

Andrew is currently based in Seattle and travels between there, LA and New York for work and other assignments.

Anna Ream is a conceptual and documentary portrait photographer and a sculptor based in Issaquah, Washington. Her artistic practice is centered at the nexus of domestic life and motherhood, examining the social expectations of motherhood, adolescent identity, and the emotional complexity of childhood. Ream is a graduate of the Certificate Program at Photographic Center Northwest where she now serves as a board member. Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured on international websites including Lenscratch, TODAY.com, and The Daily Mail.

Annabel Clark is a documentary and portrait photographer who was born and raised in Topanga, California. She received her BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 2003. During her final term at Parsons, she photographed her mother, the late actress Lynn Redgrave, during her treatment and initial recovery from breast cancer. In 2004, the project was published as a book and exhibition titled “Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer” by Umbrage Editions. She has worked on assignment for many publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and People Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at the Minnesota Center for Photography, Michael Mazzeo Gallery and the Southeast Museum of Photography as well as at hospitals and medical schools across the country.

Aunna Moriarty is a lens-based artist who works with alternative process and digital photography, bookmaking, performance, set design, and video art. Her art practice is informed by rituals and routines in everyday life, home, and inner realities in contrast to the external world. She plays with the impact of time, color, and scale to explore the dichotomy of interior and exterior spaces and frequently performs in her own work. She has a commercial background in fashion photography and continues to work with independent designers in the greater Seattle area.

Moriarty was born and raised in Washington state and sees herself as a devoted Pacific Northwesterner. She received her BFA in Photography from Seattle University in 2019 and her MFA in Arts Practices from University of Colorado Boulder in 2024, where she was a Lead Graduate Teaching Fellow.

Brian Allen has been working in and around documentary photography for 50 years. His recent assignments involve photographing buildings and structures for the Historic American Building Survey or the Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), using a 4×5 camera and B&W film. He also documents architecture and artifacts using digital cameras and professional lighting equipment. His personal work includes a more playful exploration of the edges of the documentary tradition. Some of these photographs are in the collections of the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska, the Alaska State Museum, and the Anchorage Museum. In addition to teaching at PCNW for many years, Brian has taught at the main campuses of the University of Alaska and the University of Washington. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1976, and earned a Masters in Studio Art from the International Center of Photography/New York University in 1989.

Chloe Collyer (they/them/Chloe) is a documentary photographer, photo educator, and 5th-gen Seattleite whose work is deeply connected to the history and marginalized communities of the PNW. This photographer’s work focuses on the intersections of race, art, and LGBTQI culture and for 10 years Chloe has photographed the Black Lives Matter movement and many other social justice causes. Chloe’s most recent project documenting youth activism will be published soon.

An alumni of Youth in Focus, PCNW, and Seattle Central’s Commercial Photography Program, Chloe has spent more than 15 years behind the camera, working as a photojournalist, events photographer, sports photographer, photo editor and camera technician. [If you recognize Chloe it may be because you visited CameraTechs during the Chloe years.]

For the past decade Chloe has taught photography to students of all ages, mostly working with youth 10-18 years old.

Daniel Gregory spent way too many years working in high tech. He now works as a fine art photographer and photographic educator based on Whidbey Island, Washington.

He is Adobe® certified in Adobe® CC® Lightroom and Photoshop and is an instructor at Photoshop World, Creative Live and other national and regional conferences. In addition, Daniel is a member of the core faculty at the Photographic Center Northwest where he teaches classes on a variety of film, digital and conceptual photographic concepts.

Daniel works in a variety of photographic mediums often working in both analog and digital technologies. Much of his personal work focuses on the relationship of time, landscape, emotion and the impacts on identity. He is the host of the podcast The Perceptive Photographer which focuses on the creative life and challenges that artist and photographers face.

Elizabeth A. Brown (she/her) is an independent scholar, educator, and consultant specializing in contemporary art and the history of photography. From 2000-2011 she was Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions & Collections at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, following positions at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, and the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara. She has curated over 50 exhibitions, including mid-career surveys of Kiki Smith (photographic work) and Lari Pittman (drawings), WOW (The Work of the Work), which explored how contemporary art affects the viewer; and 150 Works of Art, an innovative display of the Henry’s permanent collection. Alongside numerous exhibition catalogues, she has published books on photography by Constantin Brancusi (Edition Assouline) and Kiki Smith (Prestel).  Brown earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, all in the history of art, from Columbia University in New York.

Eirik Johnson is a photographic artist based in Seattle, WA. His work has been exhibited at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. He has received awards including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in 2009, the Santa Fe Prize in 2005, and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 2000. Johnson’s work is in the collections of institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Seattle Art Museum, and the George Eastman House. Books by Johnson include Sawdust Mountain (Aperture, 2009), Borderlands (Twin Palms Press, 2005), and Snow Star (Cavallo Point Press, 2009). His editorial work has appeared in numerous magazines including Dwell, Metropolis, the New York Times T Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

Erika Schultz is a staff photographer for The Seattle Times and a member of their Climate Lab team. As a photographer and videographer, she focuses on news and longform stories about human connection and community, health, climate change and the environment.

Her visual storytelling has been recognized by Pictures of Year International, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, National Edward R. Murrow Awards and the ASNE Community Service Photojournalism awards. Supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation, her immersive digital stories exploring asylum, deportation and women’s rights on the U.S.-Mexico border earned a National Emmy, an Online Journalism Award and recognized by NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism. She also was part of The Seattle Times’ 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning team for Breaking News Reporting.

Erika has taught photo and video storytelling at University of Washington, Photographic Center Northwest and coached at Mountain Workshops. Understanding the increasing risks journalists face online and in the field, Schultz completed a Hostile Environment and First Aid Training. She is also certfied FAA Part 107-certified drone pilot.

Francis Zera is an architectural, aerial, commercial-industrial, and construction photographer based in Seattle. Originally from Massachusetts, he has worked as a newspaper and magazine reporter, photographer and editor. He has been working as a photographer for more than 25 years. His commercial and advertising clients range from local and international architecture, construction, and engineering firms to manufacturers and airlines.

His art has been purchased by many of these same clients, and hangs in lobbies and boardrooms all over the country.

He is a graduate of Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Argosy University. He also studied fine-art photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is also a certificated private pilot and a commercial sUAS (drone) pilot.

He is a president emeritus of ASMP Seattle/NW, and a past instructor of architectural photography, business, and marketing at the Art Institute of Seattle.

Harini Krishnamurthy is an Indian-American photographer and visual artist living and working in the Seattle area. Her most recent work explores ideas of home, culture and identity. Harini is passionate about analog photographic processes and incorporates these techniques in her work.

Harini’s work has been exhibited in group shows at the Harris Harvey Gallery in Seattle, WA, Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA, Tieton Arts and Humanities in Tieton, WA and the Lightbox Gallery in Astoria, OR. Her work has been published in the Hand Magazine and the Latitude 47 magazine. Harini’s work is also a part of the City Panorama Project, a public art project to display images in bus shelters around King County in Washington State.

Harini regularly volunteers her photography services to community non-profits. She also volunteers as a teaching assistant for analog photography classes at the Photographic Center Northwest.

Harini graduated with a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest in 2017.

Jake Nelson is an image-based artist, educator and journalist working in the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Nelson received his BFA from Seattle University. His work, both artistic and journalistic, covers a broad spectrum of topics and has been included in group shows in Portland (OR), Seattle (WA), Los Angeles (CA), New York (NY) and Berlin (DE). His artistic work is largely based in physical media and book/zine making. He has produced two handmade book, Blues and Sweetbread along with a handful of photo-based zines. Nelson is a regular photo contributor for Willamette Week and their various publications.

The majority of Nelson’s educational work focuses on Black and White analog processes. He is committed to the art of analog photography and actively works towards making its processes more accessible.

Kelli M. Perletti (She/They) is a photographer and photographic educator from the Pacific Northwest. Her bodies of work utilize a variety of analog, experimental and alternative processes, often fusing together processes to explore the fragility of existence, humanity and identity. Common themes they explore include chronic illness, gender identity, intergenerational trauma and the surreal experience of being alive.

Kelli began her photographic education in secondary school, graduating in 2012 from Central Washington University with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Studio Arts and receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy, 2020. In between her undergraduate and graduate studies, Kelli lived, volunteered and worked in Central America. She continues to stay involved with the indigenous communities of Guatemala she’s gotten to know well over the last decade.

After many years of life abroad, Kelli returned to the Pacific Northwest to teach Photography and Graphic Design in Seattle, Washington. Her curriculum is a hybrid of digital, analog and experimental methods and focuses on teaching ethics and best practices in both subjects. Her students have gone on to place in State Photo competitions, win scholarships and have their photographs printed on Jones Soda bottles.

Kelli’s favorite processes to work with are Platinum-Palladium, Caffenol-C developer, Cyanotypes and Lumen Prints. She also enjoys experimenting with multiple exposures, toy and pinhole cameras, camera obscura and under fixing prints. Her favorite photographers are: Matika Wilbur, Claudia Andujar, Cherry Archer, Mel D. Cole, Myra Greene, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Abelardo Morell, and Alessandra Capodacqua.

Leah Freed (b. New York) has her B.E. in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and her M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington. Leah received a Certificate in Fine Art Photography from the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA in 2018. Leah works as a mad scientist by day, and by night, gets to explore her creativity through her love of experimentation and chemistry in her photography. Freed’s work has been shown in Vice Magazine , Blue Sky Gallery, and the Photographic Center Northwest.

Hi, I’m Lesley: a scientist, engineer, photographer, dog lover, kayaker, and Washingtonian. My passion for photography was sparked in high school and college, which grew deeper while traveling around the world documenting my adventure with my 25-year-old 35mm camera. This culminated in a Certificate in 2018 from Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, Washington. One of the things I love about photography is that it allows me to utilize my science background to achieve what I want in my images. I love the varied textures found in all sorts of items: tree bark, cacti, old machines, and the aging pipes and wiring in the basement of my mid-century house. I am keenly interested in showing off the beauty in all things, especially things that most people would just walk on by and not notice (or pass off as ugly). I predominately shoot locally in Seattle and the surrounding areas. I have a dog named Kevin Bacon who patiently waits outside my photography studio while I work.

Hailing from Vancouver, WA, Macsen spent most of his educational career studying analog photographic processes, eventually graduating from The Evergreen State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography. After a sojourn in Los Angeles working at a fine art photo lab, Macsen returned to the northwest to live in Seattle where he joined PCNW in 2020.

Maryam Dehbozorgi, born in Iran and based in the United States, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges memory, identity, and cultural heritage. With academic roots in Graphic Design and Painting from Soore University in Tehran, and an MFA in New Genres from the University of Washington in Seattle, her practice is grounded in both traditional training and contemporary experimentation.

Her creative journey took a pivotal turn in 2014 during her studies with acclaimed Iranian artist Mohsen Zare, where her exploration of self and narrative began to evolve. Maryam Dehbozorgi’s work engages with the reinterpretation of overlooked or marginalized narratives, offering a critical lens on established systems of meaning, value, and aesthetics. Through a
layered visual language, she challenges dominant cultural structures and invites reflection on collective memory, personal history, and the instability of fixed identities. Rooted in the experience of migration and displacement, her practice seeks to reconstruct a renewed relationship with the past and explore shifting notions of “home” and belonging. Navigating between presence and absence, individual and collective, past and present, her work creates contemplative spaces where viewers are invited to question inherited narratives and reconsider their place within broader social and historical contexts.

Her work has been showcased internationally, with exhibitions held in notable venues throughout the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, and Iran. Noteworthy presentations include the Henry Art Museum and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in Seattle. She held a critically acclaimed solo exhibition titled Fly Between Walls in 2020 and 2025, presented at Hamras Gallery and Mini Mart City Park Space in both Tehran and Seattle.

A recipient of the Top Scholar Award and the Gonzales Graduate Student Scholarship from the University of Washington, Maryam Dehbozorgi continues to contribute a distinct Iranian voice to the global art conversation, weaving personal experience with universal themes through a richly layered visual language.

Melinda Hurst Frye is a Seattle-based artist and educator. By way of observation, experimentation, and slow investigation, her practice centers on themes of ecology and place in her photographs of the Pacific Northwest landscape. She holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Hurst Frye’s work has been featured on Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, and WIRED Photo and regularly exhibits. She is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery.

Natalie Krick (b. 1986 Portland Oregon) is a Seattle based artist whose work investigates visual perception and pleasure through complicating the act of looking. She holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2015 Krick was a recipient of an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation for her project Natural Deceptions. In 2017 Natural Deceptions was published by Skylark Editions and Krick was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Krick’s work has recently been exhibited at SF Camerawork, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation, The Museum of Sex, and Blue Sky Gallery. Her photographs has been highlighted in several international publications including BOMB, The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, PDN, Aperture, and Vrij Nederland.

Rachel Demy (b. 1982, San Diego, CA) is a documentary and fine art photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She received her Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Portland in 2004. For the following 15 years, she worked for a concert promoter, a booking agent, and finally settled as a tour manager for rock bands, where she honed her skills as a portrait and documentary music photographer. Demy completed her Certificate in Fine Art Photography from Photographic Center Northwest in 2022. Her first photography book, Between, Everywhere —documenting life on tour with Death Cab for Cutie — was released in December 2022 through Minor Matters, with a concurrent exhibition at Leica Bellevue. In her spare time, Demy enjoys long-distance running, travel, spelunking on Wikipedia, night walks, and taking down oysters by the dozen.

Rik Garrett began documenting family and friends after receiving a Kodak Disc camera at six years old. They later watched their mother build a darkroom and open her own portrait studio. At the age of 14 they were inspired to pick up the medium in earnest, taking a photography class at school and eventually staging a very slow takeover of their mother’s darkroom. This led to a lifelong love of analog photographic processes, including film, wet plate collodion, and non-silver processes.

Garrett received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has taught at SAIC and Photographic Center Northwest, and has been known to lecture on the history of occult photography.

Garrett’s work regularly involves drawing parallels between the history of spirit photography and related practices, historical texts on magic, and personal life experiences.  Their work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, and their first monograph, Earth Magic, was published by Fulgur Press in 2014.

In 2022, Rosanne celebrated 40 years as a professional photographer. During those years she has won many awards for her commercial and fine art work. She has also been featured in well-known publications such as Communication Arts and Graphis, among others. In 2008 Rosanne authored a book about women and body image titled This is Who I Am—our beauty in all shapes and sizes. She has also published books about portraiture (The Art of the Portrait) and lighting (ABCs of Beautiful Light). Rosanne has been teaching lighting, portraiture and creativity classes over the course of her career at PCNW, Santa Fe Workshops and many other venues. She occasionally mentors students who want to hone their skills in the art of photography. Rosanne is also a poet and singer-songwriter.

In their transdisciplinary art practice tom manzanarez utilizes the body as a vessel to explore eroticism, critique, and reflexivity. Through time our bodies become containers for stories. They endure constructed representations of our will and reflect the physical evidence of our lived experiences. By capturing the body in multiple forms and environments, their work acts as an archive to reflect on past selves in relation to who they are now and will become. Through modes of performance, research, writing, installation, and photography, their work centers around their positionality as a queer gender non-conforming person and provides them a way to reflect on their experiences. Often in themes criticizing social constructs of gender and sexuality, whitewashing, erasure, heritage reformation and queer love.

Their work has been exhibited at after/time in Portland, OR, Lightbox Gallery of Astoria, OR, Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, the LGBT Center Gallery and Frontier Space of Missoula, MT, as well as being published in Numero Magazine. They received their BFA from The University of Montana and their MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, OR. During their time at PNCA, they pursued a career in higher education and were also selected for the Community Fellowship for their work in event organizing and fostering inclusivity throughout the institute. Currently they teach at Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle, WA.

Twyla Sampaco is a color film photographer and self-published author based in Seattle, WA. At PCNW, Twyla can usually be found at the front desk or managing digital lab operations. She teaches workshops in color film processing, film scanning, printing from lightroom, and large format RA-4 direct positives. She graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors in Material Science & Engineering and did program managementy things at big companies until she stopped. Her photographs have been exhibited at Vermillion Gallery, A-Gallery, the Wing Luke Museum, Ghost Gallery, Solas Gallery, METHOD Gallery’s “In Bloom” at the Georgetown Steam Plant, and at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. She is a resident artist and lead artwalk curator at Blue Cone Studios in Capitol Hill, and is on the curation committee at METHOD Gallery in Pioneer Square. Twyla really wants to know if she can pet your dog.

Zorn Taylor is a portrait photographer, photographing humans and documenting community. Taylor makes portraits that build community by celebrating the stories of the human beings that comprise it. As an artist, Taylor’s attention is focused on how community is created and nurtured and grown. Taylor’s work describes a beautiful, expanding community and imagines how it could become even richer. Taylor is a believer in the beloved community and imagines a community that manifests through the actions we take to love, the words we use to describe that love and the narratives we weave about these relationships.