Visual Connections New York 2015

Our panelists for the Keynote Q&A Session

Nancy Wolff, a partner at Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP in New York City and DMLA Counsel, specializes in copyright, trademark, rights of privacy/publicity and digital media law. Nancy offers full legal support to a wide range of traditional and digital media clients. She is currently Vice President of the Copyright Society of the USA and Co-Chair of the ABA subcommittee on Copyright Legislation. She is a frequent speaker throughout the United States and Europe on copyright, technology and licensing. In 2007 she published her book entitled The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook with Allworth Press and PACA (DMLA). She was awarded the 2007 ASPP Picture Professional of the Year.

Ophelia Chong is the founder and managing partner of Stock Pot Images, which began as an idea in the shower. She began her career as the photographer for David Carson, then moved into film, first as creative director at Strand Releasing, then at Slamdance Film Festival. Another sideways leap landed her at Workbook and Workbookstock as Creative Director. Ophelia is an art director in the MFA writing program at CalArts.

Bill Cramer spent 20 years shooting editorial, corporate, and advertising assignments before creating Wonderful Machine in 2007 to help photographers connect with clients. The company has since grown into a production company with a network of over 700 photographers around the world. In addition to executing campaigns for ad agencies and brands, they provide consulting services for photographers including photo editing, graphic design, marketing, estimating and shoot production.

Moya McAllister is an assignment photographer based in New York City, concentrating on food, food producing, farming, lifestyle, portraits and travel. Moya’s previous career included being Photography Director at Story Worldwide, a boutique marketing agency, and a photo editor and producer at USA Networks, Time Inc., Harry N. Abrams, Roger Black Studios, Scholastic and Hemispheres magazine. She is the founder and administrator of PictureEditors.Org, a networking group on Facebook for photo editors and art buyers.

Moderator

Cathy Aron is Executive Director of DMLA (the Digital Media Licensing Association formerly PACA). She has been actively involved in the stock photo industry for over 35 years and was formerly the president of Photo Network Stock, a successful general stock photo rights managed archive. Cathy has been a speaker/panelist for numerous industry functions and events and has presented classes on copyright protection at several colleges in the United States. Also a former president of DMLA she is a huge advocate for copyright, and works hard to help educate on this subject.

Our panelists for the Footage Q&A Session

Rich Remsberg (Atlas Films) is an Emmy Award-winning archival and visual researcher who works primarily on PBS documentaries, museum exhibits, and feature docs. His credits include Happy Valley, Anita, American Experience, American Masters, and the Mob Museum. His own short films have screened at the Walker Arts Center, the Bowery Ballroom, and the Slamdance Film Festival. His ltatest book is Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression.

Jessica Berman-Bogdan is the President and founder of Global ImageWorks (GIW), an independent multi-service media company that licenses contemporary and archival stock footage and offers a full line of copyright clearance and footage research services. Jessica is an internationally recognized film researcher and stock footage professional. Recent credits include Archival Producer on the highly acclaimed documentaries Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and Twenty Feet from Stardom.

Analisa Goodin is CEO and founder of Catch & Release (formerly Visual Catch), based in San Francisco and with operations in New York and Montreal. The company offers creative research to top agencies, directors, and production companies, and has been signing top talent to its own private collections. Analisa has over a decade of experience in visual research and content licensing.

Alison Smith heads up WGBH Stock Sales which licenses content from WGBH, Boston, the leading producer for PBS. She also negotiates all the stock footage, stills and music deals for WGBH productions. Alison has previously been a freelance Producer, Associate Producer, Film Researcher, and Assistant Editor, for commercial as well as other public media productions. She started her career in television on the WGBH landmark Vietnam: A Television History series.

Bobby Dicks is Director of Sales & Licensing at CNN Collection, where he specializes in helping fiction and non-fiction storytellers establish and frame their narrative with current and archival footage from global and local news coverage. Bobby recently worked with Laura Poitras’s documentary Citizenfour, which earned an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature category. As a veteran licensor, Bobby’s clients include major and independent film and multimedia production companies on every continent.

Moderator

Matt White is Executive Director and co-founder of ACSIL. He is an award-winning filmmaker of archive-inspired programs with over 25 years’ experience as an industry leader in the care and development of audio-visual archives. Matt founded The WPA Film Library in 1986, and has held senior management positions at National Geographic and The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is currently co-producing Beatles Live! with with Apple Corps Ltd and director Ron Howard.

In conversation with

Paddy Johnson is the founding Editor of Art F City and maintains a column on digital art for Artnet. Paddy was nominated for best art critic at The Rob Pruitt Art Awards in 2010 and 2013. In 2014, she was the subject of a VICE profile for her work as an independent art blogger. In addition to her work as a writer, Paddy is an avid animated GIF fan and has curated several shows on the subject. Ask her about it!

Julie Grahame is a consultant, curator, portfolio reviewer, writer, speaker and photography judge for various non-profits. She is the publisher of aCurator.com, a full-screen photography magazine and associated blog, one of the British Journal of Photography’s top 10 photo sites, and one of Life.com’s top 20. Julie is also a contributing writer for PDN’s Emerging Photographer and EDU magazines. She has represented the Estate of Yousuf Karsh for rights and clearances for ten years.

Moderator

David Newhoff is a writer, film & video maker, and activist for the cause of creators’ rights in the digital age. David’s blog The Illusion of More: Dissecting the Digital Utopia is a mix of editorial and reportage around intellectual property rights, civil rights, privacy, economics, and public policy. His advocacy has included contributions to the Copyright Alliance, the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property, World IP Day, and the USPTO. David’s background includes over 20 years as a creative director, producer, video director and editor in the New York market, and a childhood spent thumbing through ImageBank catalogs.

Sessions program organizer

Ellen Herbert, owner of NEAT Production, is a producer/editor/art buyer on the West Coast for a wide array of clients, including the 2000 Democratic National Convention, High Wide & Handsome, deviantART and the Academy Award winning documentary The Children’s March. Her newest project is becoming a partner in the Genre Stock agency Novel Expression.