EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dæja (she/her) worked as a Lab Assistant in 2017 and joined the staff as Deputy Director in January 2024. Dæja became Executive Director in August 2025. She attended Cranbrook Academy of Art as an MFA candidate in 2022 and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Dæja is an artist concentrating on photography, memory, and materiality. She is also the Creator and Director of Flat Earth Film Festival and a part of the HEIMA art collective in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.

LAB DIRECTOR

Keanna Rose (she/her) joined the staff as Lab Director January 2021 after working as a lab assistant since 2019. Keanna studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she received their BFA concentrated in analog photography and videography.

Keanna photographs large format and scans on a drum scanner to magnify form and shrink context from coy compositions.

LAB MANAGER

Diego (he/him) began working at Latitude as a Lab Assistant in September of 2018 and joined the staff as Lab Technician in July of 2021. He was promoted to Lab Manager in 2024. His practice revolves around what it means to be alive, sensible, and experiencing a moment. Diego’s written and shown work for various online and print publications as well as Roman Susan, Happy Gallery, and Filter Photo.

LAB TECHNICIAN

Matilda (she/her) is an artist and designer from the Pacific Northwest. She began working at Latitude as a Tech Fellow in October of 2023 and joined the staff as a Lab Technician in January of 2024. She received her BFA from Oregon State University in 2019.

EDUCATION COORDINATOR

Ash (They/Them) joined Latitude as a lab assistant from 2018-2019 and joined as Interim Deputy Director in 2024 and became Education Coordinator in 2025. As a queer lens-based artist Ash's body of work surrounds LGBTQ+ identity through portraiture. Their work also explores themes of queerness, transformation and mental illness through abstract and experimental photographic methods using music software, text/hex editing and rephotographing images on screens. They obtained their Bachelor's Degree in Photography at Columbia College Chicago and their MFA in Fine Art Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

Amanda (she/her) started working with Latitude as a Lab Assistant in 2023 and joined staff as Production Assistant in 2025. She is a photographer who loves toy cameras and slow image making. Amanda also curates one night pop-up art exhibitions with Cherry Knot Curation. Cherry Knot fosters art accessibility through community building and showing "weird" art in third spaces.