Richard Falco is the Creative Director and President of Vision Project. Vision Project is dedicated to developing investigative journalism, documentary photography, multimedia, film, and education. Vision Project aims to produce documentary material and educational programs encouraging understanding and awareness of various social issues.
Falco has been a photographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, and educator for the past thirty-five years. He has traveled extensively worldwide, working on assignments in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States. His photographs have appeared in major publications. Clients include Time Magazine, Newsweek, Business Week, New York Times, Life, National Geographic Society, People, Geo, New York Magazine, Stern, and U.S. News & World Report, to name a few.
There are six published books of his work: To Bear Witness/September 11, Medics: A Documentation of Paramedics in the Harlem Community, Hunger and Rice in Asia, Witchcraft: Ancient Traditions Alive in Salem, Water, Wild & Light: The Dingle Peninsula, and India: A Timeless Testimonial. He is also the editor & chief of Witness Magazine.
Falco is the director of the films Crossroads: Rural Health Care in America, Project Music: Not A Single Dissonant Note, and Holding Back the Surge and the executive producer of the films Josie: A Story About Williams Syndrome and Dorothea’s Tears: The State of Mental Health Care in America.
He has exhibited in the United States and abroad. Exhibitions include Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC; International Center of Photography, NY; Nikon Galleries, Tokyo; New York Historical Society, NY; and others. His images are in the permanent collections of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington.
Falco is a 16-time award winner for Excellence in Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists, a winner of the International Media Award in Europe, and an Award of Excellence from the Society of Publication Designers.
He is the Professor & Coordinator of Multimedia Journalism in the Masters-in-Communication Program at Sacred Heart University. He is also one of the Editorial Board Members for the Easton Courier News.
Joe
Alicastro, Producer. A thirty-year veteran producer for NBC News, Mr. Alicastro was a Special Events Producer for the network’s extensive political coverage from 2003 through 2007. Before that he served as 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. He is the winner of three News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Mr. Alicastro is the Coordinator of News & Broadcasting in the Masters in Communication Program 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 also a computer
graphics instructor with the Center For The Arts at the
State University of New York.
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. |
