Across four decades of public reporting, perhaps no photographer has been so widely recognized as Diana Mara Henry for historical record of the Women’s Movement. Her breath of subject extends from the presidential campaigns of McGovern, Carter, Reagan and media titan Malcolm Forbes to demonstrations for the ERA and the Women’s Pentagon Action.

She won recognition as a New York based journalist who chose her subjects for their enduring meaning. She will tell the story through her iconic images that wrote the history of culture and consciousness in the last decades of the Twentieth Century.

As we reflect upon March as Women’s History Month, there may be few better national figures than Henry to give witness to Women on the Move.

The 2021 PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series begins with Michael Bradley, a wetplate photographer who celebrates Maori Facial Tattoos and its placement within indigenous culture.

The visible spectrum of wetplate collodion, is insensitive to blue light – which also is the color of ‘ta moko’ facial markings of Maori people, in his native New Zealand. Facial tattoos are an important part of Maori culture, yet the opportunity to reverse tradition created a moment of self reflection otherwise absent.

Michael Bradley is based in Aukland, New Zealand as a commercial photographer specializing in food, editorial and professional sports.

The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Lou Meluso, a photographer who has worked for museums like the Getty in Los Angeles and the Nelson Atkins in Kansas City. As an expert technician and artist image maker, Lou was also Director of Imaging at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Currently the Director of the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, he is both gifted and creative, facets to the foundation of his talk for PSNWA: “Gaining Impact in Your Images”.

Lou will inspire you, while helping tear down preconceptions that get in the way of great image making.

The PSNWA Distinguished Photographer series presents Beverly Buys, a cyanotype artist from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

A former educator who is listed on the Arkansas Arts Registry, she is a 57th Delta exhibition participant, and has hung solo shows at the Delta Cultural Center, ASU Beebe Gallery, and many other locations. Primarily known for cyanotypes, she is an analogue photographer working with light sensitive materials and chemistry in a traditional darkroom.