Stella Kalinina & Morgain Bailey

Teaches at Houston Center for Photography

Morgain Bailey is an artist-photographer from California who lives in rural Maine. Her work focuses on environmental portraiture, documentary landscape, and still-life. She is interested in investigative and research-based photography that looks deeper into our relationship with the land and our chosen homes.

Stella Kalinina is a Russian-Ukrainian American photographer based in Los Angeles working on contemplative stories about our connections to each other, our personal and communal histories, and the places we inhabit. She brings empathy, curiosity, and a collaborative approach to portrait-based stories that are firmly rooted in a sense of place. She seeks to imbue stories of people with dignity grounded in our shared humanity. Additionally, Kalinina teaches photography in Watts, Los Angeles, and has lectured at Las Fotos Project, ArtCenter College of Design, and The Armory Center for the Arts. She is a graduate of ArtCenter College of Design and the University of Pennsylvania and a member of Women Photograph and American Photographic Artists (APA).