Fotovision is a Bay Area nonprofit created to support photographers interested in documenting their world. Our mission is to advance documentary photography and storytelling. We do this through education, dialogue and community. Our vision is to inspire and enable positive change by creating a global photographic community that gives voice to the human condition.

The curriculum is designed to span the various skills and techniques needed as a long-term, in-depth photo project is developed: fieldwork, editing, funding and marketing, book publishing, multi-media issues and more. We create opportunities for photographers to hear lectures by master photographers like Sebastião Salgado, James Nachtwey, Eugene Richards, Alex Webb and others. In addition, we give Bay Area photographers and people interested in documentary the rare opportunity to study with these masters in small groups.

Fotovision utilizes a unique network of community partnerships to deliver workshops throughout the Bay Area and to draw on a rich community of highly accomplished and dedicated documentary photographers, printers, publishers, and arts administrators. Currently, workshops are offered in Emeryville, San Francisco, and Napa at advanced, intermediate, and beginning levels.

The founders of Fotovision have deep and distinguished roots in the photojournalist and documentary world of photography as well as many years of teaching in prestigious photojournalism programs.

Board of Directors

Ken Light, President and Co-founder
Ken Light is a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation and numerous other awards. He is adjunct professor and Director of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley and was a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography and Fotovision.
Contact: studio@kenlight.com

Erika Gentry, Board Member
Erika Gentry is a multimedia artist with a concentration in photography and digital imaging. Her work explores issues of identity as expressed through the use of technology and portraiture. She is a consultant to artists and corporations for digital imaging, fine art digital printing, and photo direction. Her MFA is from the Rochester Institute of Technology and she is a full-time professor at City College San Franicsco.
Contact: erika@fotovision.org

Cary McQueen Morrow, Board Member
Cary McQueen Morrow is an arts management consultant with specialties in strategic planning, market research and donor acquisition, and expertise in using web technologies to reach mission-centric goals. She has worked with arts organizations in all artistic disciplines and of all sizes, and has been invited to speak on arts management issues at conferences and private meetings around the world. Cary is also (not-so) secretly a photography addict and loves looking at images, talking about photography, collecting prints and hoarding books. She's delighted to be working with Fotovision during this dynamic period of growth.
Contact: cary@mcqueenmorrow.com

Alison Taggart Barone, Secretary
Ms. Barone has been active as a photography collector and an active member in the Bay Area photo community for over twentyfive years. She has an MA in fine art photography; has had a variety of experiences working as a commercial sports photographer, teaching photojournalism and working in photographic galleries and nonprofits in support of photography.
Contact: alison@fotovision.org

Staff

Melanie Light, Executive Director
Ms. Light is founding Executive Director of Fotovision. She is also a writer, co-author of Coal Hollow as well as writings about photographers such as Hansel Mieth, Donna Ferrato and Micha Bar Am.She is currently working on a project about the Great Cental Valley in California.
Contact: director@fotovision.org

Adrianne Koteen, Program Coordinator
Ms. Koteen is a freelance photographer, educator and arts consultant. She worked as an editor and curator with the International Museum of Women, co-produced a documentary short on an artist in Nepal, and teaches international photo workshops. Her photographic projects have been exhibited nationally.
Contact: adrianne@fotovision.org

Advisory Board

Thea Bellos, photographer and principal of The Bellos Group, consultants for global marketing and management services

Arthur Coddington, photographer, marketer and organizational problem solver. He currently works for Craigslistfoundation.

Tony Davis, photography collector and dealer: Antiq-photo

Steve Fritz, marketing consultant at Aravo Solutions

Kim Komenich, founding board member and staff photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle

Mark Liebman, CEO of Pictopia

Liz Lisle, Managing Director at Shotgun Players

David Madson, Senior Development Director, California State University, East Bay

Ellen Manchester, founding board member and development associate for Earth Island Institute

Fiona McDougall, Director Creative Production and Photography, OneWorld Communications

Jane Paradise, photographer. www.janeparadise.com

Craig Sherod, photographer, www.craigsherodphoto.com

Michelle Vignes, co-founder of Fotovision and photographer. Michelle Vignes Photography

Tim Wagner, director and founder of www.eyesci.com and Director of Marketing at Btrax, Inc.

Nondiscrimination Policy: Fotovision, in accordance with applicable Federal and state law, prohibits discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, physical or mental disability, medical condition, ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, or status as a covered veteran. This nondiscrimination policy covers admission and access to Fotovision’s programs and activities.