Joshua Cogan, Photographer
Rob D'Amico, Audio Editor-Mixer
Ted Dillard, Photographer
Johanna (Jones) Franzel, Public Radio Exchange, Generation PRX Director
David T. Grophear, Abbott Boyle Inc., architectural photographer
Bridget Hanson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Curatorial Associate
Randi Hopkins, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Associate Curator
Brenda Hutchinson, Experimental sound artist
Jared Katsiane, Filmmaker
Stephen McCarthy, Freelance/WGBH, Director of Photography/Cinematographer
Kathryn Ramey, Emerson College - Department of Visual and Media Arts, Assistant Professor
Lynn Weissman, Weisswoman Productions, Founder, Owner, and Creative Director
Joshua Cogan
Photographer
Areas of expertise: Photography, online storytelling, visual impact, new media
Websites: www.joshuacogan.com, www.livehopelove.com
Joshua Cogan is a photographer and anthropologist whose work focuses on documenting vanishing cultures and exploring social issues through photography and new media. In addition to his personal work on Diaspora Judaism in India, Ethiopia and Israel, Cogan has pioneered a number of innovative projects with the award-winning multimedia firm BlueCadet. The partnership has produced a number of heartfelt, interactive narratives for the web, including a study of how high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina have coped with the loss of their homes. Cogan’s latest collaboration with BlueCadet, Live Hope Love, was a revelatory look at the silenced voices of HIV-positive Jamaicans enduring the stigmas of their society through the words of poet Kwame Dawes. Produced by the Pulitzer Center, it recently won an Emmy for New Approaches to Documentary. Cogan's work has also appeared in the New Yorker, GQ, Washington Post, and the New York Times.
Rob D'Amico
Audio Editor-Mixer
Areas of expertise: Rob has over 20 years of production experience in music performance (drums), audio postproduction supervision & consulting, sound design, and sound mixing for film, broadcast & web.
Website: www.postmasterstudios.com
Rob is Co-Owner of PostMaster Studios and has production experience in sound design, editing and mixing for film, broadcast and web. This includes over 15 feature films including: “Jack in the Box”, “Code of Ethics” and “Night Deposit". 9 episodes of Fox Sports Houstons "Athlete 360", 13 episodes of Discovery's Home Channel “House Lift” and numerous documentaries including “One Land Two Worlds,” “The Green Square Mile” and “Sheer Will.” He has audio edited and mixed many corporate videos for Avid Technology, Reebok, Iomega, IBM, Lotus and Easy Closets. Rob also records and mixes the Audio Tours for the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston.
Ted Dillard
Photographer
Areas of expertise: Digital Photography, RAW processing, Color Management, Imaging Workflow
Ted's career in Photography spans over three decades, from his first work in his grandfathers darkroom, through his early work for the local newspaper, through 25 years of commercial and advertising work for a national client base. He has exhibited nationally, and has taught at the Maine Photo Workshops, New England School of Photography, The Art Institute of Boston and Northeastern University. In the late 1990’s Ted joined Calumet Photographic as Digital Imaging Specialist, and then moved to EP Levine. There he founded the Pixel Institute where he wrote The Digital Imaging Masterclass, which would ultimately be edited (ed: Kara Helmkamp) and published as “Raw Pipeline”, by Lark Books in 2008. He is currently the Founder and Manager of Tech Superpowers Professional Imaging Services in Boston. Ted is on the Board of the Griffin Museum of Photography, and is the Founder and Director of the Boston2Portland Ride to Cure Parkinson's. Ted has been trained in every major product line of digital camera, scanner, printing and color management system including Leaf, PhaseOne, Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Fuji, Epson, HP and Xrite; Colorburst, Imageprint, EFI and PowerRip RIPs.
Johanna (Jones) Franzel
Public Radio Exchange, Generation PRX Director
Areas of expertise: Radio and sound production, teaching/leadership, outreach and promotion
Websites: www.prx.org, generation.prx.org
Johanna (Jones) Franzel is the co-founder and directo rof Generation PRX (generation.prx.org), a project of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX.org) that is all about youth radio. Comprising a national network of over 50 youth radio groups, Generation PRX helps young people share their audio work with listeners around the globe through feedback, connection and distribution. Before joining PRX.org, Jones coordinated the Community Programs Department at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, where she co-founded "Youth Noise Network" to train young people in documentary media production and social justice. Over the past 10 years she has taught in settings ranging from individual workshops to classrooms, afterschools and museums. She currently assists the Blunt Youth Radio Project as a teacher of radio to incarcerated youth at the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine. Jones holds a Masters in the Arts in Education program from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a certificate from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She is fluent in Spanish and Swedish.
David T. Grophear
Abbott Boyle Inc, architectural photographer
Areas of expertise: photography, film.
David T. Grophear is a Boston area photographer and filmmaker. Currently, he works for Abbott Boyle Inc. as an architectural photographer and a Director, Producer and Editor with Ketchabrick Productions including multiple projects for the bands Dropkick Murphys, Darkbuster and Jason Bennett and the Resistance. He has done additional work with Ketchabrick on Boston ALTCOM and the Boston Comedy Festival, which featured Lewis Black and Janeane Garofalo. He graduated with a dual specialization in Film Production and Film Theory, History and Criticism from Keene State College in 1994 and was a professor of Film Production at his alma mater from 1999-2003. The film work he has done represents his diverse talents and interests. He has worked under Florentine Films editor Paul Barnes and co-directed, edited and produced the independent feature film “A Sort of Homecoming.” Recently, he has co-edited, “You Finally, Completely Lost It!” “A Man Among Giants.” “Northern Comfort” and “American Psych Ward” In addition to his editing experience, he has done screenwriting work for “Northern Comfort” and has filled the role of associate producer for “Milkweed” and “American Psych Ward.”
Bridget Hanson
Institute of Contemporary Art, Curatorial Associate
Areas of expertise: 2-D work (painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography).
Bridget Hanson is Curatorial Associate at the ICA/Boston. She received a BFA in Painting and Art History from Washington University in St. Louis. At the ICA, Hanson has worked on numerous exhibitions, including Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future (2008), Tara Donovan (2008), and the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall: Ugo Rondinone (2008-2010). She is currently coordinating the first solo museum exhibition of Mexican artist Dr. Lakra (2010, organized by guest curator, Pedro Alonzo), and curating the next Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall installation by the painter Francesca DiMattio (2010-2011). She co-organized the current exhibition, ICA Collection: In the Making (2009-2010) with Jen Mergel, former ICA Associate Curator. Prior to working at the ICA, she worked as Curatorial Assistant at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, assisting with exhibitions such as Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History (2007), The Believers (2007), and Spencer Finch: What Time is it on the Sun? (2007).
Randi Hopkins
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Associate Curator
Areas of expertise: Contemporary Art in all media, curatorial practice, writing about art, installation and development of exhibitions
Randi Hopkins is an associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, where she has been on staff since fall 2008. In April 1999, she co-founded Boston’s Allston Skirt Gallery, where she organized and presented an ongoing program of exhibitions and related events as co-director until June 2008. Her weekly "Museums & Galleries" arts column appeared in the Boston Phoenix weekly from fall 1999 through fall 2008, and she has contributed essays to publications on artists Danica Phelps and Vaughn Bell. Independent curatorial activities include organizing the exhibition "Project for a New American Century" at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, September 2008, and “And the fair Moon rejoices,” at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, June 2009. At the ICA, she has had close curatorial involvement with "Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand," "Damian Ortega: Do It Yourself" and "Krzysztof Wodiczo, OUT OF HERE... : The Veterans Project."
Brenda Hutchinson
Experimental sound artist
Areas of expertise: Much of my work is centered on creating large-scale experiments in socially based improvisations. I work with sound, stories and performance in order to engage with people directly and to ask them to focus on themselves and their own experiences as ways to begin to connect with others. I am deeply committed to understanding people and to bridging gaps among strangers. Through my work I try to find common ground among groups of people or to create situations and occasions for people to find their own. Skillwise- I am proficient in all aspects of digital sound production, I improvise on a 9 1/2 foot tube- solo and with others, I am a good listener, witness and testifier.
Websites: www.sonicportraits.org, dailybell2008.blogspot.com, thebellproject.blogspot.com
Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist whose work is based on the cultivation and encouragement of openness in her own life and in those she works with. Hutchinson encourages her participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. She often bases her electroacoustic compositions on recordings of these individual collaborative experiences, creating "sonic portraits" or "aural pictures" of people and situations. In addition to her ethnographic pieces, Hutchinson performs and improvises on a 9 1/2 foot tube with a gestural interface she designed.
Hutchinson has produced work for National Public Radio's Soundprint and is the recipient of the Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and Television, Ucross Residency Award and Montalvo Artist Residency. Commissions and grants include Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, and McKnight Foundation. Brenda has been an artist in residence at San Quentin Prison, Headlands Center for the Arts, Harvestworks, The Exploratorium and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Recordings of her work are available through TELLUS, Deep Listening, O.O. DISCS, Frog Peak Music and Leonardo Music Magazine.
Brenda will drive cross-country for any reason.
Jared Katsiane
Filmmaker
Areas of expertise:Producing and production management, Screenwriting and script analysis, Location Scouting, Casting. I'm also a film director and editor but feel I could be most helpful in the other areas listed.
Jared Katsiane teaches film making in the same public housing developement where he grew up in Boston. His award-winning films have screened at 300 international festivals, PBS, and other venues, and he has received 25 grants and fellowships.
Stephen McCarthy
Freelance/WGBH, Director of Photography/Cinematographer
Areas of expertise:Documentary Filmmaking, Cinematography, non-fiction film history.
Stephen McCarthy is a Boston-based Director of Photography with over twenty five years' experience in non-fiction filmmaking. His work has appeared in prime-time documentary series on PBS, Discovery, The BBC, Channel Four Television, HBO, the History Channel and more. Recently completed work includes "Storm Over Everest" and "Digital Nation" for FRONTLINE, "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" for THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, "Audubon" for AMERICAN MASTERS, "Master Class/Rehearsing A Dream" for HBO and "Faces of America" with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for PBS. Mr. McCarthy is currently completing films about the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam and the War of 1812, both for PBS.
Kathryn Ramey
Emerson College - Department of Visual and Media Arts, Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise:16mm filmmaking, experimental film, animation, documentary
Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing, and various direct animation techniques. Her scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the Avant-Garde film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between avant-garde and ethnographic film and art practices. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Social Science Research Council on the Arts fellowship, the LEF New England moving Image Grant and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship. She has published articles in Visual Anthropology Review and The Independent as well as the anthology Women’s Experimental Cinema and has screened films at multiple film festivals and other venues including the Toronto Film Festival, MadCat Women’s Film Festival, 25fps Experimental Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.
Lynn Weissman
Weisswoman Productions, Founder, Owner, and Creative Director
Areas of expertise:Weisswoman Productions’ specializes in short documentaries, one-woman-band shoots (including multi-camera with lighting and sound), and directing small crews. As a Jill-of-many-trades, Founder, Owner, and Creative Director Lynn Weissman enjoys many roles in her freelance work: Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist, and Video Editor. Weissman feels at home mixing the art and science of video production to tell a good story.
Website: www.WeisswomanProductions.com
Lynn Weissman founded her Somerville-based video production company, Weisswoman Productions in 2002, at the turn of the digital age. The mission of Weisswoman Productions is to create compelling video that inspires reflection, laughter, and meaningful conversation about the strange, wonderful, and complex world we live in.
Weissman’s documentary films have won grant, festival, and competition awards; aired on public and cable TV and the web, and have screened nationwide and in Canada. Weissman is a freelance Cinematographer, Editor, and Producer-Director. She has earned two master’s degrees: one in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (1992), and a second MS in Philanthropy and Media from Suffolk University’s School of Management (2002).