Mikki Ansin, Cambridge, Mass.
Mikki is a professional photographer and film-maker and has had a long-standing
working relationship with film directors and producers such as the Merchant-Ivory
team, and Nicholas Meyer. Her credits include Howard’s End, The Remains
of the Day, The Bostonians, Lorenzo’s Oil , and several Merchant-Ivory
films in India. She has been campaign photographer to Jimmy Carter
and Mike Dukakis and the archivist and photographer to Rose Kennedy. She
produced the film on Mrs. Kennedy which is screened at the Kennedy Library.
She was a guest lecturer at our workshop in Aix-en-Provence in July.
Brigitte Berg, Paris, France
Brigitte is the Director of Les Documents Cin?matographiques in Paris,
a documentary film production company and a photography and film archive
started by the late film-maker Jean Painlev?. The archive contains valuable
original film from the first moving pictures (chronophotographs) made my
?tienne-Jules Marey in 1890. Besides other written works, Brigitte has
participated in a symposium on Marey in Beaune held in 1995 and contributed
to a book on his work.
Anne Bergogne, Paris, France
Anne is a professional writer and journalist for a newspaper in Paris.
She is a science and medicine correspondent and travels throughout Europe
covering stories for her journal. She coordinates our activities
in Paris.
Marie-Catherine Caillava, Paris, France
MCC as she is known, was born and raised in Paris. She is a professional
opera singer who has performed at the Garnier and at the Opera Bastille.
She has an interesting dual career, and is also a computer whiz and a published
science fiction writer who has translated Arthur Clarke into French. Currently,
she edits a TV science fiction series for publication in France.
Guy Cassegrain, Brookline, Mass.
Guy was born in France and was raised in both the US and France as
a child. He is studied at the University of Paris and at Berklee
School of Music in Boston and works in Boston as a French teacher and translator.
Guy is a private tutor and has taught French at the French Library in Boston
and at the Brookline Center for Adult Education. He has also worked and
performed as a musician and is an avid motorcyclist.
Julie Criniere is a graduate of Boston University and is Anthropology Specialist at Documentary Educational Resources in Waltham, Mass.., an educational film making company. She has assisted in teaching the Color Photography Workshop in Cambridge in 1998 and is currently embarked on making a video of immigrant children in the Boston area. She coordinated the 1998 Florence Photo Workshop and worked on the Home Page and on publicity for the workshop.
Regis de Silva, Cambridge, Mass.
Regis obtained his experience and training in image-based technologies
in medicine and is a member of the Royal Photographic Society. He serves
on the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Boston, the Board of Directors
of Z-Arts, the Corporation of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education
and the faculty at Harvard University. Regis trained with the late
Italian photographer Egon Egone and with other area photographers. He has
had one-man exhibitions at the Cambridge Arts Council and at the French
Library of Boston at the Gala at the Museum of Fine Arts in 1996. He teaches
color photography at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and he taught
photography workshops summer in Aix-en-Provence, Prague and Florence, Italy.
Tsar Fedorsky
Tsar is a photojournalist and the chief New England photographer
for United Press International (UPI). She graduated from Amherst College
(Mass.) and from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California.
She received a full scholarship for the Ansel Adams Workshop in Pebble
Beach, California and she has also studied in Paris. Currently, Tsar also
does free-lance portrait, public relations and corporate photography.
Besides English, Tsar is fluent in French and Spanish.
Catherine Haddouche, Paris, France
Catherine is a professional freelance film and video maker and a film
archivist. Her most recent assignment was at the Bibliotheque Fran?aise
archiving a portion of their collection. She recently auditioned in New
York and Montreal for film-related projects and is currently doing an internship
in New York at an art and photography gallery.
Loic Madec, Lannilis, Brittany, France
Loic is a full-time painter who studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts
in Paris. Currently he lives in Lannilis, a small fishing village in Brittany
where he grew up. He has has shown his work in Paris, New York and in Boston.
His most recent show was in Boston, depicting scenes from the French opera.
Christine Paquay, Boston, Mass.
Christine is a professional linguist and French translator who trained
at the University of Brussels. She currently does software translation
and testing in the Boston area for a major computer scientific and engineering
software company. Christine also works on similar projects in France for
other computer companies. She is working on a future project to teach
French in the Provence.
Christine Soudry, Baltimore and Aix-en-Provence
Christine, who graduated with Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees from
the University of Aix, is an artist who paints in watercolor and oils.
She has had a number of exhibitions and her work is in several private
collections in the US and in France. Christine teaches French at The Language
Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. She edits and publishes Les Petites Annonces,
which is distributed in the eastern US.
Martina Tovarysova, Prague, Czech Republic
Martina studied architecture and is the head of the Foreigner’s Department
in the Hospital Na Homolce in Prague, the premier hospital in her country.
She is deeply involved in the arts and is helping to coordinate our photography
workshop in the Czech Republic in 1997.
Brett Trauthen, Newport Beach, Calif.
Brett is a professional engineer and consultant for a medical device
company who has lived in France. He is an oenologist, a gastronome and
a Francophile who speaks French and has travels to France frequently.
He will coordinate activities for French visitors who will attend workshops
to be held in California.
Gerald Yukevich, Martha’s Vineyard and Cambridge, Mass.
Gerry is a physician and a writer. He is the founder of a theater group
which celebrates European farce and original American comedic works. Gerry
is also publisher of ALPHABET, a free-form literary journal. He is
also the President of Z-arts, a non-profit cultural organization in Boston,
originally sponsored by the Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris. The Board of Z-arts
is composed of representatives from FACIL-Art, the French Library of Boston,
the Pont Aven School in Brittany, and other individuals who have connections
with French cultural activities.