Richard
Falco, President & Creative Director.
For the past twenty-five years he has worked as a photographer
and journalist in New York. He has had assignments on four
continents in over thirty-five countries and has worked for
many major magazines, including: Life Magazine, Newsweek,
Geo, Time, New York Times, US News & World Report, to
name a few. His images regularly appear in books and periodicals
around the world. There are two published books of Mr. Falco’s
work. The first book is entitled, Medics: A Documentation
of Paramedics in the Harlem Community. The second, To Bear
Witness/ September 11, was published August 2002. Mr. Falco
also has twenty years of teaching experience. He has taught
and lectured at a number of universities, schools and institutions;
notably, The New School for Social Research, Santa Fe Photographic
Workshops, the School of Visual Arts in New York, State University
of New York at Purchase College, and Sacred Heart University. He also oversees all of Vision Project's educational programming.
Joe
Alicastro, Associate Director/Senior Producer. A 30-year veteran producer
for NBC News, Alicastro was a Special Events Producer for
the network's extensive political coverage from 2003 through
2007. Before that he served as the NBC Rome Bureau Chief,
traveling extensively around the globe covering breaking news,
including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the breakup of the
Soviet Union, the Gulf War and the Liberation of Kuwait. A
winner of three News and Documentary Emmy Awards, he also
teaches Broadcast Journalism at the New York Film Academy
and is an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University.
Lisa
Maxwell, Art Director. The winner of three Effie Awards. Over the
last 25 years, she has worked at many of New York's premier
advertising agencies, such as Young and Rubicam, Backer &
Spielvogel, McCann Erickson and Euro RSCG. Her clients include:
General Foods, Oil of Olay, Helene Curtis, and Coca Cola to
name a few. She continues consulting in advertising and has
expanded her capabilities from conventional consumer print
and television advertising to the web. Well versed in the
usage of InDesign, Adobe's Photoshop, and other
applications for web design; she brings a wealth of perspective
and experience to her teaching. Ms. Maxwell is presently an adjunct professor for Sacred Heart University's Graduate Program in Communication and is a computer
graphics instructor with the Center For The Arts at the
State University of New York.
Les
Stone. During the last two decades, Mr. Stone has
chronicled the human cost of conflict in Irag, Afghanistan,
Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia, and Haiti, among other
war zones. He is the winner of several World Press Photo Awards
and Picture of the Year Awards. Mr. Stone has covered stories
often ignored by the mainstream media. His work has appeared
in the pages of National Geographic, Time, Life, Newsweek,
Stern, Fortune and many others. He has been involved in a
number of book projects: The Palestine and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict (Bedford Books), Haiti: Dangerous Crossroads (South
End Press) and A Day in the Life of the United States Armed
Forces (HarperCollins).
Krystian Bielatowicz specializes in photojournalism, portrait and travel photography. He is published in many magazines throughout the world, most notably: Newsweek, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, and others. Bielatowicz has won numerous awards including: The Grand National Geographic Photographic Competition, The International Photography Competition, Newsreportage and others. He is the President of A-Pro-Positive, an organization that produces photo, multimedia and video projects. An educator. He also teaches a series of photography workshops and photo-expeditions for The Nikon Academy.
Vision
Project also relies on a cadre of experts who contribute on
a freelance basis, as well as, a dedicated core of volunteers
and students.
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