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Laura Dodson (March 2023 Featured Artist) is an award-winning photographer, writer and educator based in New York City and Athens, Greece. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute. Her works have been the subjects of seven international, one-person exhibitions, and her art has appeared in numerous group shows. Laura currently teaches digital photography at Queens College, City University of New York and writes portfolio reviews for LensCulture magazine. Her photographs are included in several private and public collections. Her most recent exhibition was "Fictional Narratives" at Alex Ferrone Gallery.

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© Alex Ferrone
Alex Ferrone (July 2022 Featured Artist) is based on the North Fork of New York. As a female commercial and fine art aerial photographer, her works have been published widely, including in Wine Spectator, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Pinhole Journal; have been highlighted in numerous online magazines; and have been featured on TV. Alex has exhibited her fine art photographs in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums nationally in New York, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and Colorado as well as internationally in Italy and Spain. Her works are held in private collections in the United States, Italy and France. She is also an independent curator and juror as well as owner and director of Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue, NY.
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© Erica Higgs
Erica Higgs is primarily a nature photographer inspired by the hundreds of miles she has wandered with her daughter on trails throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond. Erica and Abby have explored over 850 miles together on both easy and advanced trails. Erica’s work has appeared in several publications and in local galleries. Her photography has been featured on a billboard in NYC, and she won several first place awards. Erica curated a homeschool art show and is currently teaching art at a co-op. 

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Feature Film: Sirena's Gallery
Photo Courtesy: Christine Sloan Stoddard
Christine Sloan Stoddard is a writer, artist, filmmaker, and theater-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is also the founder of Quail Bell Press & Productions, including Quail Bell Magazine. A few recent credits include: writer/director of the comedy play Cyber Cinderella at the Broadway Comedy Club in NYC; co-writer of A Chorus Within Her at Theater Alliance in Washington, D.C.; and assistant director of Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC. Her latest book, Heaven is a Photograph, is a collection of narrative poetry and photography about a young woman's journey transitioning from the world of photojournalism to fine art photography. Sirena's Gallery is Christine's first feature-length film.
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© Pamela Waldroup
Pamela Waldroup (March '21 Featured Artist) is an award-winning photographer and president of fotofoto Gallery in Huntington, NY. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and has exhibited extensively in the metropolitan area in galleries and museums including: the Alex Ferrone Gallery, Salmagundi Art Club in NYC, 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, fotofoto Gallery, East End Arts Gallery, Patchogue Arts Council Gallery, Mills Pond House Gallery, Main Street Gallery, Art League of LI, Long Island Museum, b.j. Spoke Gallery, the 2018 Long Island Biennial at Heckscher Museum and smaller local galleries. 
She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) in New York City.

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© Lauren Curtis
Lauren Curtis is a New Jersey-based photographer and mixed media artist who graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and has been creating ever since. Lauren has participated numerous exhibitions. Her artwork has been sold throughout the U.S. and abroad and displayed in private collections, healthcare centers and galleries. Lauren’s work was selected for a solo exhibit at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters in 2009. She was a featured artist on the Science Channel‘s TV show Oddities (2011-2012), on Germany's TAFF TV (2015), and on several New Jersey and New York City television and radio shows.   ​

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