The Team
Amber Terranova (she/her) • Director, Education & Partnerships
Amber Terranova is the Director of Education & Partnerships at CENTER. She previously served as Education Director at Magnum Photos and as an experienced photo director and educator. Her editorial experience includes positions at New York Magazine, Outside, Photo District News, The New Yorker, and PEOPLE, as well as photo direction and consulting for organizations worldwide.
Amber has held faculty positions at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography and, in 2013, served as Interim Director of Bilder Nordic School of Photography in Oslo. She has taught photography workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia and has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions. Committed to photography education, she works closely with photographers to help them develop their creative practices, strengthen their work, and navigate their careers. She also regularly judges international photography competitions and serves as a nominator for photography awards.
Corn Wagon Thunder (she/her) • Exhibitions & Membership Manager
Corn Wagon Thunder is a photographer and collage artist whose work uses self-portraiture and mixed media to explore themes of identity, myth, and memory. She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, with earlier studies at Penland School of Craft. Her work has been shown in exhibitions across the United States, including at the Asheville Art Museum and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Thunder currently lives and works in northern New Mexico.
Laura Wzorek Pressley, MPA (she/her) • Executive Director
Laura Wzorek Pressley operates at the intersection of cultural production, research-driven collaboration, and program design. Her expertise spans both the arts and rigorous civic research; she has served as a Senior Fellow in the University of New Mexico’s Policy & Evaluation Lab, delivering high-level quantitative and qualitative analyses for community and government organizations.
In 2025, she led the opening and direction of CENTER’s new exhibition space in Santa Fe, where she now curates a year-round schedule of premier photographic projects. As a curator and producer, Laura has shaped impactful exhibitions such as Nuclear Legacy (2025), Through the Curtain (2025), Art & Oppression (2017), and The Dispossessed (2016) among others. Her reach extends globally through collaborative partnerships, including co-curating the Korea International Photo Festival, as she consistently champions art as a vehicle for social inquiry.
New Advisory Councils
Seats are available on CENTER’s new Advisory Councils. We invite you to join us in expanding and advising on new photographic initiatives in CENTER’s new space. Please contact the Director Laura at laura@visitcenter.org or call (505) 933-9146 to set up a time to meet with us.
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National Women's Council
Meetings 3-4 times a year, invitations to private CENTER events, and international photo fairs • $1,500 for a two-year term
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The Santa Fe Council
Meetings 3-4 times a year, invitations to CENTER private events, and international photo fairs • $1,500 for a two-year term
Reid Callanan • President
Director, Santa Fe Workshops • reidcallanan.com
Reid Callanan is the Founder and Director of the Santa Fe Workshops, currently in its 32nd year, offering photography and writing workshops to the international imaging community. In addition to workshops in Santa Fe, there are also educational programs in Havana, Cuba, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. In 1994 Reid founded the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography, now known as CENTER, and is currently Vice-President of its Board of Directors. He serves on the President’s Council for the Texas Photographic Society, on the Board for the American Society of Media Photographers Foundation, and on the Advisory Board for Bertha Crosley Ball Center for Compassion.
Tony Chirinos
Photographer & Educator • tonychirinos.com
I am a Miami-based photographer that explores the themes of death and the vulnerability of life.
My goal as an artist is to produce work that engages the viewer aesthetically and intellectually, that also moves beyond mere entertainment to something, which asks the viewer to think critically. I consider myself a documentary-style photographer, one that uses visual language to create a photographic narrative. I had the good fortune to receive a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York (2003). Beforehand I was trained as a Bio-medical photographer at Miami Children’s Hospital (1985), later in 1989, I created the Medical photography department at Baptist Health Systems until my departure in 2001. During those years, I learned to produce the finest quality documentary photographs of the medical world, which I later used as my artwork for some of my photographic projects. I am a Fellow of the South Florida Cultural Consortium (2010) and the recipient of CENTER’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2019). Currently, I am a tenured professor of photography at Miami Dade College and have been teaching since (2003).
Ondrea Hidley • Vice-President
Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft & Photographer • ohidley.com
I was a kid, with a Kodak Instamatic and Magicubes, at a Lipizzaner horse show. I waited a week for the film to be processed. The woman in front of me was very well-lit from my blue dot flash bulb, and the horse was a small blip near the center of the frame. But, at least the horse was in the frame. I was captivated by the photographic opportunities.
Various subjects have graced my viewfinder since those early days - vast landscapes to grains of sand, wild animals to humans - each subject fascinating and challenging in its own way. Over the years, the technology changed, but the premise did not: capture a moment in time. I immerse myself in the moment, and nothing else matters; I am simultaneously focused and free.
While I start with classic photography, I like to think of my art as expanding the limits of the medium. As you browse my online galleries, you will see a mix of styles as I explore different photographic art forms.
Mary Anne Redding • Secretary/Treasurer
Educator & Designer
Mary Anne Redding Curator and Creative Director of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University. Previously she was Curator of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts and Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design and Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum. For the past twenty-five years, she has written and published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art and actively curated exhibitions at museums around the United States.
Beverly Martin
Educator & Designer
A former educator, and interior designer, Beverly Martin’s international background includes working closely with the head of Malawi Broadcasting in Africa. Her former board service includes Discover Dance, A Contemporary Theatre, and Henry Gallery of the University of Washington, where she was the Board President and continues to serve on the Advisory Council.
Peter Ogilvie
Photographer • ogilviephoto.com
Raised in southern California, Peter Ogilvie studied Art and Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he turned to documentary films as his means of expression. Filmmaking lead to still photography, both fine art, and commercial.
Pursuing his career in advertising, fashion, and fine art photography he has lived in San Francisco, Milan, Paris, New York, and now New Mexico. He has traveled the world on assignments and has won numerous advertising and graphic awards for his work. The journey continues. His passion endures. He still loves creating and looking at images. Ogilvie currently serves on the Board at CENTER, ASMP-NM, and APA NY with the goal of helping the next generation find possibilities.
Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D.
Scholar, Curator & Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean, Yale School of Art, Yale University
Kymberly Pinder, Ph.D., is a Scholar, Curator and is currently the Dean at the Yale School of Art, Yale University. She was a professor and administrator for sixteen years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New Mexico where she was dean of the College of Fine Arts at UNM from 2012 until 2019, when she became provost of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. As a community arts scholar, Pinder has been committed to community engagement and interdisciplinary initiatives. Her efforts at the UNM Art Museum at UNM resulted in an annual “all-arts day” titled ArtUnexpected, and as interim museum director, she began the multi-city initiative, PhotoSummer to promote the programming around photography and facilitated this event across NM.
Before and during her teaching career, she worked in the education and curatorial departments in museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters in New York, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Pinder has been published in the Art Journal, Art Bulletin, and Third Text. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon, Ford, and Henry Luce Foundations, among others.
Thomas Werner
Author, Educator & Creative Consultant • thomaswernerprojects.com • instagram.com/thomaswernerprojects
Thomas is the author of the books The Business of Fine Art Photography, Routledge, New York, and The Fashion Image for Bloomsbury Publishing, London, with an upcoming book co-authored with Microsoft BING and AI team leader Derrick Connell due out in early 2026. He is also an Editor at Large for IRKmagazine, a Paris based print publication and website, and past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York. He is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District, and a former National Board member and New York Chapter President for the American Society of Media Photographers. As well as a former contributor to Adobe’s Lightroom Academy, and a photography consultant for COACH among others.
Werner led a team developing a media and literacy website for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations/UNESCO and was a recurring instructor for the United Nations Education First Summer School. From 2005 – 2019 he worked with the United States Department of State on cultural projects in Russia partnering with 32 cultural, educational, and governmental organizations to develop projects in 29 cities. As an exhibiting artist Thomas was represented by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and his work reviewed in The New Yorker Magazine.
Currently a creative consultant, Thomas works one on one with students, creatives, businesses, cultural institutions, and not for profits, helping them with career development, team management, innovation, education, professional practices, and the development of effective communication across multiple media platforms.
Will Wilson
Photographer & Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin • willwilson.photoshelter.com
Will Wilson’s art projects center around the continuation and transformation of customary indigenous cultural practice. He is a Diné photographer and trans-customary artist who spent his formative years living on the Navajo Nation. Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and art history at the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002) and Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History, 1993). In 2007, Wilson won the Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum, in 2010 the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture, and in 2016 the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography. Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American Indian Arts (1999-2000), Oberlin College (2000-01), and the University of Arizona (2006-08). In 2017, Wilson’s received the NM Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2020, Wilson was the Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery. Wilson was previously the Program Head of Photography, at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico, and is currently the Associate Professor at University of Texas, in Austin.