Photographers & Team
Here are some of the amazing volunteer photographers and team members who have contributed to WikiPortraits
Andrew Lih
Andrew Lih is one of the world's experts on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement in both the academic space and multimedia production. He is the author of The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies created the world’s greatest encyclopedia (2009) which was launched at the SXSW conference that year. He is an avid contributor of professional portrait photographs to Wikimedia Commons, accounting for more than 5 million monthly views. He has photographed high-impact events for Commons, such as the Pulitzer Prize awards, the National Book Festival, and the Hay Festival of Books. Some of his most widely used headshots on Wikipedia include Charlize Theron, Kendrick Lamar, Ronan Farrow, and Priyanka Chopra.
He works on open-access projects with Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons images, with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution as Wikimedian at Large. In 2022, he was named a Wikimedia Laureate for his lifetime work with Wikipedia, and in 2016, he was named the U.S. National Archives Citizen Archivist of the Year.
Links: Website
Jennifer 8. Lee
Jennifer 8. Lee is an American journalist, author, and producer known for her work in print, television, and film. She gained prominence for her coverage of technology, culture, and society. Lee worked as a reporter and editor for The New York Times for over a decade, covering various beats including technology, culture, and Washington politics.
She is perhaps best known for her book "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food," published in 2008. The book explores the history, culture, and impact of Chinese food in America. It delves into topics such as the origins of Chinese-American dishes, the spread of Chinese restaurants across the United States, and the cultural significance of fortune cookies.
In addition to her writing, Lee has produced and directed documentaries, including "The Search for General Tso" (2014), which investigates the origins of the popular Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken. She has also contributed to various media outlets and has been involved in digital media ventures.
Links: Website
Kevin Payravi
Kevin Payravi is a software engineer, photographer, and active participant in the Wikimedia movement since 2007. Kevin has worked on several international Wikimedia initiatives including Wikipedia Asian Month and WikiConference North America, as well as organizing Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States—an annual photography competition that invites the public to upload photos of historic sites from across the country. Kevin also serves as a board member for Wikimedia District of Columbia, a non-profit organization that promotes Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects in the Washington D.C. area and beyond.
Frank Schulenburg
Frank “Fritz” Schulenburg is an award-winning photographer for Wikipedia. He has taken photos on five continents, has traveled to more than thirty countries and has lived in three. Since 2012, his focus has been on landscape, wildlife, architecture and travel photography, with his images reaching an audience of several million people each month. Schulenburg’s work appeared in the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Forbes, Business Insider, The Weather Channel, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, and many others. Air France has been using one of Schulenburg’s photos on its in-flight entertainment systems for flights to San Francisco. In 2023, Schulenburg had his first solo museum exhibition. In 2024, he became the first Wikipedia photographer to get press credentials for the Sundance Film Festival.
Links: Website
Jason Weinrich
Jason Weinrich is a videographer based in Northern California. He has a decade of media experience, having started his career as a musician, photographer, and public speaker. He now runs Watershed Media, a video-forward advertising agency helping organizations clearly communicate through video. Jason is a new contributor to Wikipedia and hopeful to see more talented photographers join in the effort of making knowledge freely accessible to others.
Links: Website
Harald Krichel
Harald Krichel is a professional German photographer with a focus on portrait photography. Since joining the Wikipedia community in 2003, he has not only contributed as a Wikipedian but also brought his camera to capture notable people on numerous cultural events and bringing their portraits to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia. His photographic journey has taken him to book fairs and art exhibitions, music festivals such as SWR New Pop in Baden-Baden, Rudolstadt and Moers, as well as international film festivals in Venice and Berlin.
Links: Website
Sol Procter-Tarabanov
Sol Procter-Tarabanov is a music photographer from London, and leads WikiPortraits's music coverage efforts. They have worked with many artists around the UK from editorial shotos to full concert videography and direction. Primarily, they specialise in live concert photography.
Links: Instagram
Jay Dixit
Jay Dixit is a New York City-based portrait and event photographer. His photography work includes major festivals like Sundance, SXSW, and the Cannes Film Festival as well as local cultural happenings in New York City, Toronto, and Ottawa.
Links: Website
John Sears
John Sears, an independent filmmaker based in New York City, has spent the last decade cultivating a wide gamut in the visual arts; from filming music videos and editing feature-length documentaries and docu-series, to producing and directing short docs for non-profit advocacy and fundraising initiatives, John has never lost touch with his love for photography.
Links: Website
Frank Sun
Frank Sun is a New York City-based director / cinematographer who has spent the last 15 years working in the entertainment industry in commercial, film, and television. His television work spans multiple seasons on networks like CBS, TLC, and Discovery, including Emmy winning show survivor. He has shot feature films acquired by amazon and netflix. His music video work has been exhibited at SFMOMA, Zaha Hadid Gallery, and The Cooper Hewitt.
Clients include: Alibaba, alice and olivia, Biotherm, Cartier, Esquire, Google, Maxmara, Nike, Netflix, the Olympics, Peloton, Universal Music, the Venetian, Vogue.
Links: Website
Veronica Bruno
Veronica Bruno has been an award-winning, published journalist and exhibited photographer for ten years. She currently freelances for The Boston Globe, The Norwich Bulletin (Gannett, USA Today) Newport This Week, RI Monthly and Jamestown Press. She also covers entertainment and sports for Fansided, Hidden Remote and Culturess as well as Tennis World Magazine.
As an entertainment reporter, Veronica has had the wonderful opportunity to interview talent
including Geena Davis, David Tenant, Pablo Schreiber, Neil Gaiman, Alan Tudyk, David Morrissey, Jon Hamm, Michael Sheen, Yetide Badaki, Bryan Cranston, Garrett Dillahunt, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Sonequa Martin-Green, just to name a few. Many of her interviews can be found on her YouTube channel.As a nationally exhibited photographer, she is represented by both Getty and Alamy, and her images have been in gallery shows throughout the nation. As a freelance photo journalist, she has also been published in People Magazine, Examiner, Gothamist, West Side Spirit, Chelsea Clinton News, Big Apple Parent, and Ambassador Magazine.
Veronica Bruno received her undergrad degree from Harvard University and is currently working on her Master's Degree in Psychology.
Ariela Ortiz
Ariela Ortiz is a San Diego-based multi-media artist. Her work ranges from digital and traditional art to photography and graphic design. She loves movies and is a passionate Letterboxd fan! She is currently an expressive arts teacher for elementary school kids around San Diego.
Links: Website
Sara Komatsu
Sara Komatsu is an assistant editor at Plympton, among other Jennifer 8. Lee-related ventures (including Wiki). She loves all things stories, particularly film/television, books, and ballet. She is currently based out of Japan.
Bea Phi
Bea Phi is an assistant editor of online resources at Poets & Writers. In the last few years, they have worked with Writing Atlas, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Stanford Creative Writing Program, and the Asian American Theater Project, with roles ranging from administrative, clerical duties to graphic design and archiving. They are currently based in Minnesota.
Sriya Sarkar
Sriya Sarkar is an NYC-based filmmaker, director, and creative impact producer. She has worked extensively across advocacy, impact, and political spaces, including Change.org, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and Democratic super PAC Priorities USA. Her creative work has contributed to winning clemency for the wrongfully incarcerated, amplifying millions of petition signers' voices for racial justice, and destigmatizing abortion through live comedy. As a multidisciplinary director and producer, her work has been mounted at the Edinburgh Fringe and played at film festivals. She is a co-founder of the South Asian Sexual & Mental Health Alliance (SASMHA), a digital community for next generation South Asians across the diaspora, and launched their podcast, Brown Taboo Project. Her focus is on collaborating with and amplifying underrepresented artists and comedians.
Links: Website
Adam Chitayat
Adam Chitayat is a New York City based filmmaker and photographer. His work ranges from documentaries on climate change relocation to high end advertising to music videos for prominent artists. His work has been featured on platforms such as NOWNESS, Director's Library, TEDx, Vimeo Staff Picks and The Times of Israel. Adam's clients have included Google, D'Addario, Corning, Rolling Stone, Full Circle and Baist, as well as musicians such as DRAMA, Axel Boman, Royal Blood, and Sofi Tukker. His work has cumulatively been viewed over 10 million times both online and in film festivals including at the Denver Film Festival, SFFILM and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Links: Website
Bryan Berlin
Bryan Berlin is a storyteller, photographer/videographer, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. He started taking photos at live concerts in college and has been hooked ever since. His photography work includes the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New York Film Festival. He’s host of the podcast Love Hurts, which features guests sharing a story of tough love in their lives. He's a Moth StorySLAM winner, and his stories have been featured on the RISK! and Story Collider podcasts. Outside of his creative pursuits he teaches video and photography to high school students in Brooklyn.
Links: Website
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is a well-known and prolific Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia Commons image uploader. She has served as a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, and was honored in 2016 as Wikipedian of the Year. Women in Red, the project which Rosie co-founded and which focuses on improving Wikipedia’s content gender, was shortlisted for the ITU/UN Women GEMTECH award (2016). She founded WikiProject Women Writers (2014), and her research as a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University (Boston) focuses on this area. She also serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) for the “Measuring the Gender Gap” research project. Rosie was knighted in part because of her Wikipedia work. A long-time aficionado of literature festivals, she makes her home in California.
Photo by Mrb Rafi, CC BY-SA 4.0
Philip Romano
Philip Romano is a photographer/graphic designer/producer/background actor in New York City. For six years he was the sole graphic designer at 54 Below, and after that was the primary videographer for BroadwayWorld.com. Philip has been an active Wikipedian for several years, and has contributed photographs to hundreds of articles. He has photographed New York Comic Con for the last four years, and has photographed countless Broadway press events and Opening Nights. He has also provided production photography for shows at Playwrights Horizons, Town Hall, The Tank, 54 Below, the Bell House, and many more. He’s worked as a comedy tour manager, camp counselor, balloon artist, birthday magician, and Broadway lottery caller. Philip is also in Ripley’s Believe It or Not for having one of the longest tongues in America, is the subject of a meme shared millions of times, and once accidentally found his way onto the field at a Minor League baseball game in a gospel choir he was not a member of.
Links: Website
Kacy Bao
Kacy Bao is a student serving as the Multimedia Arts Photo Executive for the The Harvard Crimson. She has helped WikiPortraits cover the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, 2025 HBS investment conference, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Luca Fazzolari
Luca Fazzolari is an Italian photographer based in Venice, Italy, capturing authentic emotions in the unique atmosphere of Venice—from surprise proposals to weddings and vow renewals. While most of his work revolves around intimate moments, Venice’s international nature, especially during the Venice Film Festival and Biennale exhibitions, offers him the opportunity to engage with a diverse community.
He enjoys contributing and sharing images of these events through WikiPortriats, making freely licensed portraits accessible to readers worldwide.
Links: Website
Randy Xu
Randy Xu is a long-standing Wiki Commons and Wikipedia contributor whose career has run the gamut from software engineer to global macroeconomic analyst to emerging market private equity. Most recently he was Director of ESG Strategy at Alibaba Group, responsible for some of the firm’s climate strategy and sustainable technology programs. While in that role, he was one of Alibaba's representatives to 3 UN COP conferences, and he was a co-founder of the Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability Lab (ANGEL) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He also holds a position as a research expert at the Luohan Academy, a think tank founded in 2018 by Jack Ma to research issues of digital technology and society. Randy splits his time between New York, Los Angeles, and Hangzhou.
Luke Dixon
Luke Dixon is a photographer based in London and working all around the UK.
He photographs gigs and festivals all over London and various parts of the UK. In the past he has photographed events such as Glastonbury Festival, Y Not Festival, Festival No. 6 and End of the Road Festival. He has also photographed numerous gigs for established up and coming acts such as Alien Chicks, I See Rivers, BYFYN, Stealing Sheep and Mörmaid.
Dixon also covers events and conferences where he has photographed many well known people, including Seb Coe, Frank Gardner, Robert Peston, Jason Robinson, John Barnes and many significant British politicians including Sir Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan, Rachel Reeves, Ed Miliband and Gordon Brown. He has also shot magazine cover images for Jane Seymour, Chris Packham, Jim Dale, Kim Wilde and Jeremy Vine.
David Maynard
David Maynard is a London based freelance photographer and contributor to Wikimedia Commons. He specializes in event & live music photography in grass-roots music venues in London & Brighton, UK. In the daytime, away from the city, David makes captivating landscape & seascape images around the UK & works with clients to create lifestyle portraits. David's work was recognized in 2024 with a shortlisting in the British Photography Awards.
Quentin Thompson
"I shoot, therefore I am." Self taught, Quentin Thompson has been shooting off and on for over 40 years. An explorer by nature, he has explored and photographed over 80 countries on 6 continents. Quentin has had photos featured in news publications, travel websites, posters, and marketing materials around the globe. Quentin has lately been focusing on local/regional sports and events.
Links: Portfolio
Birgit Fostervold
Birgit Fostervold is an experienced enthusiast photographer who has devoted most of her free time over the past twenty years to volunteering as a photographer for various cultural events, including music festivals, local concerts, TEDx events, and handball matches. At work (as a graphic designer at a consultancy firm), she photographs staff portraits, landscaping, and architecture. She serves on the boards of both the Norwegian and Nordic photography associations, as well as the most significant nature photography festival in the Nordics. Birgit has been a contributor to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for more than ten years.
Vera de Kok
Vera de Kok taught herself photography by doing WikiPortraits on her own in the Netherlands for years before it became officially a thing.
Ivan Escamilla Rodriguez
Ivan Rodriguez is based in Germany. His first event covered for WikiPortraits was Art Basel 2025.
Michael Cohn
Michael Cohn is based in Birmingham, Alabama, where he works as a professional photographer with a lifelong passion for capturing unforgettable moments. Since picking up a camera as a kid, he has developed an award-winning style that blends creativity with authenticity.
Cohn's work spans a wide range of subjects, but he is especially drawn to the energy of sports and the excitement of live music. He also loves photographing weddings, portraits, and anything else that inspires him.
Links: Portfolio / Flickr / LinkedIn
Palak Dudani
Palak Dudani is a designer researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Palak's first coverage for WikiPortraits was the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2025.
Links: Portfolio
Jan Ainali
Jan Ainali is a Swedish openness advocate. One of the co-founders of the Swedish Wikimedia chapter and served as chairman of the board and then executive director. Runs the consultancy Open By Default helping organizations become more open. Revived a podcast about Wikipedia – Wikipediapodden and recorded more than 300 episodes. Has served in the jury for both Swedish and global juries of Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth. In 2021 he was awarded the prize Swedish Wikimedian of the Year.
Links: Website
Zafer Batik
Zafer Batik has been contributing to Wikimedia projects as a volunteer since 2008 and is one of the founding members of the Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey since 2016. He is primarily active on Turkish Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Batik is also contributing to wiki projects by taking photos at sport events and uploading under free licences. He has uploded more than 22,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons.
Links: Sports Photos
Kalai Ramu
Kalai Ramu is a portrait and event photographer from Singapore based in Switzerland.
Links: Instagram
Alex Lozupone
Alex Lozupone is a freelancer based in New York City, who worked computer programming jobs for a decade at places like DEC, Intel, Bloomberg LP, and Google. Currently, he is involved in photography, cinematography, archiving, and many other things. Alex currently leads his band Eighty-pound Pug, a band that performs his “on the fly compositions”, touching on the jazz and heavy metal genres, with a constantly changing set of players, and no rehearsals. Alex also shoots and edits multicamera video footage of local NYC music shows, has digitally archived and restored several audio and video recordings, and written occasional essays and papers. Alex has collaborated with science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, jazz musicians Marc Edwards and Percy Jones, filmmaker/musician Rachel Mason, poet Steve Dalachinsky, and Melvin Van Peebles.
Andy Wall
Andy Wall is a gently hermetic word, light, and palm tree enthusiast, a recovering full-time professional insomniac and former subway pre-walker.
He's only recently started calling himself a photographer despite practicing photography for more than twenty years. His work spans the gamut from portraits of actor friends to protests in the streets, from the cloisters of live music venues to the vast natural wilderness lurking outside all the places we call home. His other creative outlets involve various combinations of film and writing and he has worked on short films that have played at the Denver, Dallas and Maryland International Film Festivals.
He mostly gets paid to write text for apps, emails, and articles that help people learn things about various arms of the tech industry. Rarely in the third person, but memorably once in the Elizabethan person.
Whenever he's awake, there's about a 30% chance that he's listening to music and a 90% chance he's looking at the sky. Shockingly, he’s only been hit by a car as a pedestrian once.
He doesn’t recommend it and he is happy to be here.
Links: Portfolio
Jeff Liu
Jeff Liu is a New York City-based filmmaker and photographer. His films have been selected by prestigious festivals around the world, and his photography work includes events at Sundance and the New York Film Festival.
Links: Website
Samuel J Klein
Bio coming soon when SJ gets around to it. But we will wax and say he's an ethereal sage like wiki character.
Photo by Lane Hartwell, CC BY-SA 3.0
