Michael Rababy, Hannah Kozak Carissa Dorson & Mark Edward Harris

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Michael Rababy 

Documentary / street photographer, filmmaker michael rababy likes taking pictures of people. lebanese-american documentary / street photographer, filmmaker michael rababy likes taking pictures of people. he studied art history at the university of san diego before spending time in paris. taking influence from henri toulouse-lautrec and henri cartier-bresson. His ethnographic documentary book “american bachelor” details the highs and lows of the single male, followed by “folsom street food court”, an irreverent take on the annual street fair in san francisco. his clients / credits include the vice magazine photo book, mercedes-benz, e!, the style network, fine living, people magazine, la weekly, the village voice, time-out new york, hamburger eyes, james franco / paul mccarthy, the sundance institute, the yes men, citizen la, and l’oeil de la photographie. his street photography was featured in girlfriend confidential:la and he was the official portrait photographer for tlc’s highly rated series la ink. michael also curates photography exhibits at the hive gallery in the downtown los angeles arts district and created the book “california love - a visual mixtape”. 

Hannah Kozak 

was born to a Polish father and a Guatemalan mother in Los Angeles, California. At the age of ten, she was given a Kodak Brownie camera by her father, Sol, a survivor of eight Nazi forced labor camps and began instinctively capturing images of dogs, flowers, family and friends that felt honest and real. As a teenager growing up in Los Angeles, Hannah would sneak onto movie lots and snap photos on the sets of Charlie’s Angels, Starsky and Hutch and Family, selling star images to movie magazines and discovering a world that was far from reality. Her wanderlust and career in the film business afforded Hannah the opportunity to travel from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Guatemala and Peru to Egypt, Italy, Israel and India, capturing images of far away lands and exploring the innocence and truth found in the faces of children from around the world. 

Carissa Dorson 

is a Los Angeles-based union director of photography, originally from Silver Spring, Maryland. She began her career in sketch comedy, shooting videos that garnered hundreds of millions of views for websites like CollegeHumor and Funny or Die. Currently, she is the DP of A Little Late with Lilly Singh on NBC. She recently lensed I Think She Likes You, which premiered at Tribeca, and the comedy feature, It's a Party, starring SNL’s Ego Nwodim. Carissa is most fulfilled by using the camera to explore relationships and what it means to be human. She is also a fine art photographer, with an interest in portraiture. Her ongoing photo series, Funny People. Serious Photos, was featured in L.A. Weekly. Her first photo book, Conversations with Dad, is being published with Kehrer Verlag. Carissa graduated with a BFA from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts in 2011. When she is not filming or taking photos, she loves playing Ultimate Frisbee and seeing improv shows at UCB. 

 Mark Edward Harris 

After graduating from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Arts Degree in Pictorial/Documentary History, Mark started his professional photography career doing the stills for the Merv Griffin Show and various television and movie companies. When the show ended he set off on a four-month trek across the Pacific and throughout Southeast Asia, China and Japan. The images created on that trip brought attention to his travel and documentary photography. He since has visited and photographed in more than 100 countries. His editorial work has appeared in publications including Vanity Fair, LIFE, GEO, Time, Newsweek, Wallpaper, Stern, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Forbes, AFAR, Vogue Brazil, Elle Canada, Esquire Japan, Harper’s Bazaar, Italian GQ and many more ​