Visual Connections Boston 2015

Our panelists for the morning session

Glenn G. Pudelka is Senior Counsel in the Intellectual Property Department of Locke Lord LLP. His practice focuses on intellectual property issues, with particular expertise in the area of copyright. Glenn handles licensing and collaboration agreements of content and technology, and assists with copyright litigations and rights of privacy and publicity matters. He represents individuals and companies in publishing/media and information technology, as well as colleges and universities. Prior to joining the firm, Glenn worked for eight years as a book editor for several publishing houses in New York City.

Rachel Youdelman is Rights & Permissions Manager at Pearson Education, with expertise in copyright and strategic rights for licensing images for editorial publication. Her specialties include art history, photojournalism, and the promotion of visual literacy.

Tanya Mathis is Director of Creative Asset Management at Fidelity Communications and Advertising. Tanya has been managing Fidelity’s in-house advertising agency’s art buying department for nineteen years, more recently taking on music and audio/visual talent licensing for internally-produced video and events projects. Before joining Fidelity she worked for Young + Rubicam, Mullen and Arnold.

Ken Johnston is Director of Photography, Historical/Fine Art at Corbis. He is also co-author of a book about 20th century photojournalism, Picture Machine: The Rise of American Newspictures.

Laura Stanley is Creative Services Manager at 500px, the lead visionary and curator for 500px Prime, a premium royalty-free photo collection. She has over 11 years of experience in visual arts as a professional photographer, photo editor and art buyer. She has worked for publications celebrating world-class photography, such as National Geographic Adventure, OWL Kids, HELLO! Canada, Cottage Life and Canadian Geographic.

Doug Dawirs is best known for his work in digital asset management, including developing the award-winning application Extensis Portfolio. He is currently developing an interactive online portfolio review service for Eyeist. He is also technical advisor to PACA and creator of PacaSearch, a multi-agency stock image index. Doug is the recipient of two MacWorld Magazine World-Class Awards and an Editors’ Choice Award, as well as a MacUser Editors’ Choice Award (Eddy).

Moderator

Darrell Perry creates photography for all media, as an editor, producer and researcher. He has led teams at the Wall Street Journal, CBS, ImageDirect and Mulryan/Nash Advertising. Darrell shared in the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Breaking News Reporting for the coverage of the tragic events on and after September 11th, 2001.

Our panelists for the afternoon session

Christina Micek is Lead Photo Editor at Grand Circle Corporation and Owner of Christina Micek Photography, providing photo and video research, editing, and preparation services to the industry’s largest publishing houses. Christina has extensive experience in digital media licensing and multi-channel production.

Shannon Mahoney is General Manager of StockFood’s U.S. office, overseeing all domestic operations of StockFood, living4media and, most recently, PhotoCuisine. Having been with StockFood since 1997, she has experienced the challenges and successes of an evolving and independent stock photography business from its early days. Shannon’s work includes developing new business opportunities and enforcement of copyright compliance.

Brian Novy is Director of Sales for the stock footage company Dissolve, building client relationships in the media, agency, and corporate segments. He has worked in media licensing for over a decade.

Moderator

Jose Azel is President of Aurora Photos, an independent and international photography company representing photographer’s archives, and of Novus Select, which produces visual stories for today’s digital era and commissions visual assignments.