Instructors and Guests
Holly Hughes, Moderator
Holly Stuart Hughes is an independent editor, writer, and grant consultant who has covered photography and media for more than two decades. The former editor of PDN, she has written for Time.com, NextTV, The Telegraph, Art Info Media, Taschen Books, Carlton Publishing, and Magnum Photos. She has given lectures and organized public talks on the photography business at schools and international conferences. 
Nelson Chan, Photographer and Co-founder of TIS books
Nelson Chan is a photographer and co-founder of TIS books, an independent publishing house that concentrates on limited edition photo books. Born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan, he has spent most of his life between the United States and Hong Kong. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School. His photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; and 798 Space, Beijing, China. His books are collected in the institutional libraries of the Harry Ransom Center, The MET, The Guggenheim, The Whitney, and MoMA. Book publishing is a primary focus of Nelson’s studio practice. Chan was the production manager at Aperture Foundation from 2016 to 2019. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Chan is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts. 
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Co-founder Minor Matters Books
Michelle Dunn Marsh conceived and, with Steve McIntyre, co-founded Minor Matters in 2013. Prior to co-founding Minor Matters, she spent fifteen years in a variety of capacities at the Aperture Foundation, was senior editor of art+design at Chronicle Books, and was an award-winning designer and production director on books for a number of publishers and cultural institutions. A tenured professor of graphic design, she lectures nationally and internationally on photo literacy and elements of visual book publishing. She is the author of Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography, and the co-editor of All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, from which she curated a celebrated exhibition on view in New York and Seattle in 2018. Dunn Marsh holds an MS in Publishing from Pace University, and a BA from Bard College. She has been featured in the Seattle Times, Photo District News, and photograph magazine, among other publications, for her work in the fields of photography and book publishing. 
Ania Nałęcka-Milach, Photo Book Designer
Ania Nałęcka-Milach is an award-winning photo book designer. Her interdisciplinary experience ranges from visual arts to printmaking, and advertising (senior art director and head of design). In her design philosophy and method, book form conveys and extends visual storytelling. Designing a photo book is far more a creation of experience for viewer-reader than creating an object itself. She has been working with photographers and institutions from all over the world and total project count is approaching 100 books. 
Jason Eskenazi, Co-founder of Red Hooks Editions
The fall of the Berlin Wall led Jason Eskenazi out of Queens, New York into the larger world. He spent much of the 1990s in the former USSR. The images from that period resulted in the exhibition and book Wonderland which catch an emblematic Soviet reality — seemingly frozen in a dark magical atmosphere. He is the recipient of numerous grants and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Dorothy Lange/Paul Taylor Prize and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant. In 2009, Eskenazi’s Wonderland won Best Photography Book of the Year from Pictures of the Year International. 
