Global ImageWorks is an independently-owned footage, photo, and audio archive with historic, contemporary, deep content, and exclusive premium collections curated and designed by researchers for researchers. Our highly skilled team of music clearance specialists, archival producers and audio-visual researchers have over 40 years of experience and are ready to assist and support your next production.
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Jessica Berman-Bogdan
Jessica is the founder of Global Imageworks and has been instrumental in developing a rich historic and contemporary archive along with unique premium collections.
Jessica is also an award winning Archive Producer with over 40 years’ experience in archival filmmaking and has helped to bring together the internationally recognized team of audiovisual research and clearance specialists.
Cathy Carapella
As part of an experienced team of music clearance professionals, audio-visual researchers, and archival producers, Cathy oversees and provides a full range of research, rights, and clearance services. Her specialty is archival filmmaking and music performance footage.
Cathy also represents clip rights for Austin City Limits and Time Life’s History of Rock n Roll Interview Archive.
Morgan Strong
A member of the Global ImageWorks team since 2005, Morgan has intimate knowledge of GIW’s footage archive having spearheaded the digitization of the thousands of assets from the archive’s deep content library and has moved into the position of Director of Archive Sales.
Morgan represents GIW’s footage archive and is the point person for licensing requests.
Chris Robertson
Since 1995, Chris has served the film and television industry with music licensing, archival footage research, copyright clearance and licensing services.
Chris also represents clip rights for Dick Cavett Collection and Inside the Actors Studio.
Laree Brantley
A graduate of Fordham University, Laree specializes in music licensing, research and clearances for documentary films and educational curricula.
Laree represents the legendary jam band Phish for all third-party licensing.
Charlie Eckert
Charlie worked for two decades as a photojournalist before joining Global ImageWorks. His experience working with investigative journalists and expertise in open-source research bring a unique dimension to our audio-visual research team.
Charlie also manages the GIW photo archive.