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.
Les Stone. Over the decades, critically acclaimed photographer Les Stone has chronicled the human cost of conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Cambodia and Haiti, among other war zones. He is known for his powerful visual storytelling from conflict zones, social crises, and overlooked human stories around the world. Other projects include environmental issues, black lung disease in Appalachia, Agent Orange legacy in Vietnam, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Stone vaulted to prominence in 1989 when he photographed the savage, bloody beating of the newly elected Vice President of Panama by thugs of Generalissimo Manuel Noriega. The image revealed the true nature of Noriega’s repressive regime. Since then, Stone has covered stories often ignored by the mainstream media including the deadly legacy of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the plight of Iraqi Kurds fleeing the first Gulf War, and the deployment of Child Soldiers and Conflict Diamonds in Africa.
Stone’s work has appeared in National Geographic, Time, Life, Newsweek, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Paris Match, Fortune, Money, US News & World Report, New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, and many others. Books include: 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).
He is the two-time winner of World Press Photo Awards, the four-time winner Picture of the Year Awards, and the Reuters Editor’s Choice Award.
Stone has worked with Soros Foundation, Greenpeace, Women for Women International, the Education Exchange and given seminars on photography at: The International Center of Photography, Empire College, Sacred Heart University, and The New School for Social Research, and others.
Stone’s photography is known for its empathy, depth, and visual power, bringing attention to stories often overlooked by mainstream media. He blends documentary urgency with artistic insight, aiming to reveal deeper truths about people and places. In 2008, he joined Vision Project.
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