Shana Dressler, Founder, Producer, Photographer

 Shana Dressler’s career as a documentary journalist and producer has spanned a wide range of forms from stills to video to multimedia. Her most recent endeavor is a multifaceted project called Discovering Ganesh, which includes a multimedia exhibition, book, website and cultural tour about the Hindu elephant-headed deity Ganesh. Ganesh is one of India’s most beloved Gods and has been revered for millennia as the Remover of Obstacles, the Lord of Beginnings and the Patron of the Arts. With the support of the Indian Tourism Board, Fuji Professional and New York’s prestigious photo lab, Duggal Digital Solutions, the work-in-progress has been showcased at the United Nations, the National Arts Club in New York, the Lille International Arts Festival (an hour outside of Paris), The International Houston Arts Festival, and most recently at the Jan Larsen Art Gallery in Brooklyn. In the fall of 2009, The Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, New York will be exhibiting the full-scale multimedia exhibition; and a smaller version of the show will take place at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, CA.

 In addition to Discovering Ganesh, Ms. Dressler has exhibited photographs from “If Only It Were Love” at New York University’s gallery space Casa Italiana in 2004. The project tells the story of an unrequited love story she had with an Italian underwater photographer while living in Rome in the early 1990s. From 1998 to 2000 she created a photo essay that captured the spiritual life in a Pentecostal church in Harlem entitled, "The Spirit That Runs Through The Holy Tabernacle Church.” A portfolio of this work is part of the permanent collection of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.