Each year, an outstanding group of guest documentary photographers, photojournalists, commercial photographers, photo editors, and others involved in the field, visit the Williston campus to show examples of their work and offer insight and opportunity for discussion as part of the school’s Photographers’ Lecture Series.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Chinese parents, Gabriel Chiu is a young photographer and art director living in New York City. Growing up in the US as an Asian American, the artist recalls struggling to find any media portrayals that offered any true-to-life representation of his community. “Mainstream media always depict us as conservative and scholarly, and there’s a lack of portrayals that break free from such stereotypes,” Chiu told Dazed magazine.

Holly Lynton photographs “vanishing industries­­­­—the last sheep shearer to use hand shears, shrimpers struggling to keep their boats out, the only weir fisher folk in New England, and the final crops of cigar tobacco before the barns are dismantled for floorboards,” she explains. Born in Boulder, Colorado, she lived in New York City and London before settling in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts.

Paul Rutherford, a former Williston faculty member, is a freelance photographer based in Boston. He focuses on sports photography, both action and portrait; landscapes; and editorial work.

Award-winning wildlife photographer, writer, and conservationist Melissa Groo’s work appears in Smithsonian, Audubon, and Outdoor Photographer.

Maker of odd, off-kilter images from which one can’t look away, Cig Harvey’s photos appear in galleries around the country. She’s published two books of photography.

Los Angeles-based Genevieve Gaignard’s work focuses on photographic self-portraiture, sculpture, and installation to explore race, femininity, class, and their various intersections.