Terrance D’Ambrosio, Director of Imaging Services
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Terrance D’Ambrosio has worked in the field of digital imaging and visual resources since 2007. Terrance confers with NEDCC’s clients to evaluate their collections and develop digital imaging proposals and specifications, and works closely with the Center’s paper and book conservation laboratories on projects that require both conservation treatment and digital imaging. He sets standards for quality control and workflow in NEDCC’s Digital Imaging department, and maintains best practices for digital capture and preservation. He is a graduate of Vassar College with a degree in Art History, and previously managed the Digital Imaging Unit of the New York Public Library.
Amelia Craft, Senior Collections Photographer
Amelia earned a Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Certificate in Museum Studies from Tufts University. Amelia previously served as the Imaging Services Intern at NEDCC, and has also interned at the New Hampshire Boat Museum in Wolfeboro Fall, NH and the Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, CT.
David Joyall, Senior Collections Photographer
David Joyall joined NEDCC in 1986 when traditional darkroom methods for duplicating historic film and glass plate negative collections were the standard. He now specializes in the digitization of oversize materials, and has extensive experience in the handling of rare and fragile collections materials. David has also been involved with NEDCC’s School for Scanning, Persistence of Memory, and Digital Directions conferences, has presented at the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the National Archives, and teaches workshops on digitization of photographic collections. David has a degree in Photography from the New England School of Photography.
Caroline Mulligan, Associate Collections Photographer
Caroline Mulligan earned a MSLIS with a concentration in Archival Management from Simmons University, and a BA with concentrations in English Nonfiction Writing and History from Brown University. She previously interned at the Vine Deloria, Jr. Library at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution, and worked as a student assistant at the John Hay Special Collections Library and Orwig Music Library at Brown University.
Gray Ortega, Associate Collections Photographer
Gray Ortega earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Art Conservation and Art History at the University of Delaware. During their studies, Gray completed conservation internships at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, imaging and treating taxidermied specimen, photographic materials, paintings, and more. Gray worked as a Collections Maintenance Technician at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and served as a paper conservation technician at the Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service. Gray worked with and captured treatment images for a variety of materials from the National Park Service collection and managed an archival treatment of 18th-century manuscripts from Morristown National Historical Park. In their spare time, Gray volunteers with the Events and Outreach Committee for The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston.
Nino Gordeladze, Associate Collections Photographer
Nino Gordeladze joined NEDCC in 2023 and has been working in the imaging field since 2010. Nino holds a B.S. degree in Imaging and Photographic Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began her career at the Image Permanence Institute, where she contributed to significant grant-funded projects in digital print preservation. For the past decade, Nino has specialized in designing imaging systems for dermatological and cosmetics clinical research studies at SGS in Richardson, Texas. In addition to her technical pursuits, Nino is a skilled fine-art studio photographer, focusing on dance photography and portraiture. Originally from the Republic of Georgia, Nino is proficient in both the Georgian and Russian languages.
B. Wells Douglas, Collections Photographer
Wells Douglas earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Indiana University. He previously worked at the Indiana University Museum of Archeology and Anthropology as a collections assistant to digitize ethnographic photographs and artifacts from the collection, as a gallery assistant, preparator, and photographer for the Grunwald Gallery of Art, and he also maintains a personal archive of over 60,000 historical vernacular photographs and films from across the United States.
Trieu Nguyen, Collections Photographer
Trieu Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Art in Art Practice from the University of California, Santa Barbara. With a background in exhibition photography and fine art documentation, he entered the world of cultural heritage digitization through his previous role as a digitization assistant at Stanford. Trieu has imaged a variety of materials for the Ginsberg estate, the Ruth Asawa foundation, the Carolee Schneeman foundation, and various other collections at Cecil Green Library. Outside of work, he has an interest in fine art photography and painting.
Alyssa VanderWeg, Collections Photographer
Alyssa VanderWeg earned a Bachelor of Arts in Photography from Grand Valley State University. She worked as a school photographer in her hometown before venturing into the world of history and non-profit photography as the Collections Access Photographer at the Missouri Historical Society. She has worked on several digitization projects including the Charles Lindbergh Collection, The Gateway to Pride Collection, and general collections in which she photographed everything from Lindbergh’s flight suits and airplane parts to 19th-century patent models and exactly 276 chairs. She is now focused on digitizing documents, negatives, and photographs of landscapes in her spare time.