A
significant part of our plan is to create an environment where
an individual can study, experience and learn about photography
and the tools necessary to produce powerful and informative
images. VP has developed a series of seminars; lectures; workshops;
full semester courses; location and study abroad programs.
These programs
seek to teach the skills and discipline necessary to do documentary
work. Our programs are about creating insights and making
a difference. They broaden a student’s understanding
of the world. Emphasis is placed on social consciousness and
making a contribution to society.
Vision Project
is always interested in exploring ways to collaborate with
schools, universities, and other educational organizations
to help them develop programs that teach the skills and disciplines
necessary to do documentary work. These programs can be conducted
within the confines of the given institution or outside at
sites determined to benefit the program at hand. We will work
to custom design a program to fit the needs of an institution.
CLICK
HERE for a list and brief description of seminars, workshops
and courses we have developed for immediate implementation.
Over the last few
years, VP has worked with a number of institutions and organizations.
Ongoing, Current
and Future Education projects:
A Special Event Presentation -- Haiti: A Long Suffering Road
Moderated by Vision Project’s President, Richard Falco, the event will include presentations by Vision Project’s Associate Director and ex-NBC producer, Joseph Alicastro; June-Ann Greeley, Ph.D., Chairperson, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University, and Professor Stephane Jasmin Kirven, from the Department of Criminal Justice at Sacred Heart University.
The program will focus on Haiti’s development as a nation to the catastrophe of the recent earthquake. A film documentary, along with photographic presentations and news clips will be shown. These presentations will be followed by a public forum focusing on the issues of poverty, social justice, human rights and the country’s evolving conditions related to the earthquake.
The program will take place on February 9, 2010 at 7:00 pm at the Schine Auditorium at Sacred Heart University.
5151 Park Ave. Fairfield, CT 06825. For more information call: (203) 371-7755. Click here for more information.
1. We
are producing an ongoing lecture series called: Photography
In A Digital World. This series is given at locations
throughout the New York Metropolitan Area. This series
presents renowned individuals from the fields of
photography, design, journalism, film and new media.
- This presentation will feature Lucian Read. Winner of the World Press Award in 2005, Read moves back & forth between video production and photojournalism. He has worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan and Latin America. His photographic work has been published in magazines worldwide including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, US News & World Report, Stern, The New York Times. The session will take place on March 25, 2010 at 1:30 pm at the Schine Auditorium
at Sacred Heart University. Click
here for more information.
2.
Working in the Digital World. We are offering a series
of one-day workshops called: Working in the Digital World.
This ongoing series will be presenting renowned individuals
from the fields of photography, journalism, design, and new
media. These programs can be established within confines of
the given institution or outside at sites determined to benefit
the program at hand. We will work to custom design a program
to fit the needs of an institution. Click
here for more information.
This series will take place at the State University of New York at Purchase College in the Spring and Fall semesters.
1) IMAGES THAT AFFECT PEOPLE - with Richard Falco
- April 10, 2010
2) THE DIGITAL / VIDEO JOURNALIST - with Joe Alicastro - April 17, 2010
3) INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL IMAGING - with Scott Nobles - April 24, 2010
4) DREAMWEAVER: Market Yourself with HTML Email - with Lisa Maxwell - May 1, 2010
5) PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT: Using ADOBE’s INDESIGN - with Lisa Maxwell - May 8, 2010
Location: School of Liberal Studies & Continuing Education
Purchase College at SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
All classes meet on Saturday from 9:00 am - 5:30 pm in the Natural Sciences Bldg., Room 1013.
For more information call: 914-251-6500
3. We are working with the New York Film Academy to teach two eight-week programs in Digital Journalism. These programs will take place in January and June of 2010.
4. We will be working with the California Association of Hospitals & Health Systems at a three-day conference on March 17-19, 2010 in Sacramento, CA. We will be conducting workshops on how healthcare organizations can use documentary images for education and awareness.
5. We will be conducting a program with the Scarsdale Teachers Institute starting in December 2009. The program will work with teachers from the district -- focusing on digital and documentary photography and how it can be integrated into the middle and high school classroom. The program is open to teachers from all disciplines.
6. We
will be working on several projects in affiliation with ArtsWestchester -
Westchester
Arts Council.
a. Every summer, in affiliation with the Westchester Arts Council and the White Plains Youth Bureau, Vision Project does a six week program teaching high school students digital photography and journalism. The participating students were chosen from the White Plains
Summer Jobs Project. The program includes instruction in digital
photography, writing and journalism, photoshop and digital
design. During the six-week course, the students created a
photographic documentation on the cultural diversity of the
City of White Plains. This culminated with an exhibition of
their work at the Westchester Arts Council Gallery - the Arts Exchange.
b. We will be doing a series of “Artist in Residency”
at high schools throughout Westchester County, NY. These five
and ten day workshops in digital photography, journalism and
documentary photography will be integrated into existing high
school curriculums and work in conjunction with the departments
of art and photography; english and journalism; history and
social studies; etc.
7. At Sacred Heart
University in Connecticut three courses are taught every
Fall & Spring. We teach a course is in photojournalism, digital photography and video journalism.
8. We
are working on an ongoing basis with the educational organization, Arts For Anyone.
Our collaboration is in affiliation with their program entitled,
Global Neighborhood. For this program, Vision Project is conducting
seminars & workshops on documentary photography and the
power of the photographic image. Arts For Anyone has partnered
with schools in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
England, Australia and Turkey. The goal of the program is
to help students understand other cultures as they examine
and learn to better communicate about their own. Since 2006,
we visited schools in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
9. At the Center for the Arts-State University of New York, we are teaching a number
of courses in digital
and graphic design.
10. Vision Project
personnel are teaching several courses at the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York.
Past programs:
1. Photography
In A Digital World Lecture Presentations.
- This
presentation featured the photographer, Andrew Lichtenstein.
The session took place on October 28, 2009 in the Schine
Auditorium at Sacred Heart University. The presentation
focused on Lichtenstein's work related to the return of
the American soldiers killed in Iraq and the impact on their
families. Click
here for more information
- This
presentation featured Joe Alicastro. The session took place on April 20, 2009 at the Schine Auditorium
at Sacred Heart University. The
presentation is titled: the Digital Journalist. Mr.
Alicastro is a thirty year veteran producer of NBC News and
the winner of three News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
The presentation focused on the evolving changes of news
journalism. Click
here for more information.
-
This presentation featured the photographer, Timothy Fadek
. The session took place on October 23, 2008 at the Schine Auditorium at Sacred Heart University. Named
a "Hero of Photography" by American Photo Magazine,
Fadek has earned numerous awards for his coverage of world
events. Click
here for more information.
-
This presentation featured the photographer and educator,
Richard Falco. The lecture took place at the Hudson Valley
Center For Comtemporary Art in Peekskill, NY at 3:00 pm. Mr.
Falco's presentation is entitled: Witness to Our Times. It
focused on the documentary image and the importance of global
awareness. Click
here for more information
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This presentation featured the photographer and educator,
Richard Falco. It took place at the Ruth Keeler Memorial
Library on May 18, 2008 in North Salem, NY at 3:00 pm. Mr.
Falco's images have appeared in major magazines throughout
the world. His presentation entitled: Witness to Our Times,
focused on the documentary image and the importance of global
awareness. Mr. Falco will also discuss a documentary project
to be done with Vision Project and students from the North
Salem School District.
-
This presentation featured the acclaimed photographer,
Les Stone. This session took place on April 21, 2008
at the Schine Auditorium at Sacred Heart University
. The winner of several World Press Photo Awards and Picture
of the Year Awards, Mr. Stone's presentation focused on
penetrating to the heart of a documentary story.
Click here for more information.
-
This presentation featured the photographer and educator,
Richard Falco. It took place at the Fashion Institute
of Technology on May 26, 2008 in Studio 208 at 2:00 pm. Mr.
Falco's images have appeared in major magazines throughout
the world. His presentation entitled: Witness to Our Times,
focused on the documentary image and the importance of global
awareness.
-
This presentation session featured the renowned war photographer,
Ron Haviv. This session took place at Sacred Heart
University on November 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm at the Schine Auditorium.
Mr. Haviv has produced some of the most important images of
conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made the
headlines since the end of the cold war. His presentation
focused on photojournalism and human condition. Click
here for more information.
- This session took place at Sacred Heart University in
Fairfield, Connecticut on November 12, 2007 at 1:30 pm in
the Faculty Lounge-Academic Building featured Ron Amato.
This presentation consisted of still images and multi-media
work. Mr. Amato presented examples from over twenty-five
years of image making, illustrating his evolution from commercial
photographer to multi-media theater artist. Click
here for more information.
2. We worked with the New York Film Academy to teach a four-week program on Broadcast and Digital Journalism in July 2009.
3. Vision
Project’s President, Richard Falco, will be participating
with several photojournalists and scholars in a panel presentation
focusing on: Photography and the Hidden: Revealing
the Socially Invisible. Mr. Falco will present
his documentary on: Rural Healthcare in America. This
will take place on April 19, 2009 at the Left Forum 2009 at
Pace University in New York City. Click
here for more information.
4. In January of 2009, Vision Project created its first international photography program. The program was done in affiliation with the Vito-Clarke Foundation, the Christian Children’s Fund and a local school on the Caribbean Island of Dominica. The three week program taught students digital photography. They documented the villages in which they live.
5. We
participated in the PBS/THIRTEEN: Celebration of Teaching
and Learning Convention in New York City in the Spring of
2008. The focus was on Science, Technology and Global
Awareness. Vision Project's President, Richard Falco, gave one of the convention's keynote speeches. Click
here for more information.
6. We worked with the Scarsdale School District to create a ten-week program
in documentary photography, as well as, participating in the
district's, Human Rights Day.
7. We worked with Yale University to help them
document a symposium on "Rice Biotechnology".
8. A week-long workshop was done with the Santa
Fe Photographic Workshops in New Mexico in June 2007.
9. We participated in a Human Rights Symposium
in affiliation with the Holocaust & Human Rights Education
Center and the Human Rights
Institute at Manhattanville College on March 17, 2007. We
created an exhibition of photographs focusing on the refugee
crisis in Africa.
10. We
did several one-day workshops with the New
England Photographic Workshops in Connecticut.
a. The first workshop was entitled
-- Images That Affect People.
b. The second was entitled -- Introduction
To Digital Imaging
11. We
conducted a documentary seminar at the Theater
Arts Production Company School (TAPCO) in the Bronx, NY. TAPCO
is a charter school within the New York City school system.
The program was in affiliation with the Dolan Art Academy and the Children's Aid Society.
12. A ten-day workshop was done in the spring
of 2007 with Briarcliff High School focusing on documentary
photography and web design.
13. A workshop in digital photography was done
at the Blythedale Children's Hospital. The children who live
in the hospital are severely handicapped.
They used the camera to create personal journals through photography.
14. A program was done with the Greenburgh School
District. Working with the social studies department, the
students will create a photographic
documentary entitled: My Community.
15. We participated in a one-day seminar at Barnard
College in New York
16. We taught a four-day workshop at Tuckahoe
High School in digital photography.
17. Vision Project designed and organized a week-long
symposium called, "PhotoWeek." The program was conducted
in affiliation with The
Art Workshop & State University of New York and held at
the Westchester County Center. The event included workshops, lectures,
demonstrations, and seminars by some of the photo world's
leading professionals. Click here to download a schedule of events.
18. Two photography classes were taught at the State
University of New York at Purchase College.
19. Over the last two years the seminar, “Witness”
has been given at a number of different photography clubs
and
organizations in New
York and Connecticut.
20. We created a fifteen-day program to teach middle
school students documentary photography in the Yonkers School
District. The students
produced a documentation called, "My Community."
The program will be reintroduced again
next year.
21. A class in documentary photography was taught at
the New School for Social Research in New York.
22. Vision Project initiated a cross-cultural program
with the Taller Experimental Grafica of Cuba and the School
of Visual Arts in New
York. Forty of Cuba’s top artists have created visual
interpretations of two Vision Project photographs taken
on September 11th at Ground Zero.
23. We have done two programs in affiliation with the
School of Visual Arts in New York.
a. The first was to create
a study abroad program that would bring students and photographers
to Greece to learn
about documentary photography. Our goal was to create a living
document of that country.
b. A twelve-week course in
documentary photography called, “Witness to Our Times"
A
number of other projects are being discussed with other schools
and organizations. We are always interested in exploring ways
to work with schools, universities and other educational organizations
that can help establish potential collaborations.
For more
information call, or email us at: info@visionproject.org |
