About Our Team

Erin Maddox

Director

Erin Maddox is a local film & media producer, and photography enthusiast since she received her first camera at age 9.  Erin came to CoPA to lend her production skills to this welcoming and growing organization and to hone her 24fps craft 1 frame at a time.

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Birgitta Lambert

Director

After many years of exploring a variety of creative outlets, Birgitta finally found ‘The One’ in photography. She most loves to explore expressions and impressions of humanity through her camera, whether it be through the spontaneous capture of a stranger, a planned portrait, an arranged conceptual shot, or the documentation of the human-touched landscape. Occasionally she shoots nature, having had a love of it firmly planted in her as a child growing up in the woods of northeastern Minnesota. It is not unusual for her to have two to three cameras on her at all times so that she is ready for anything that catches her eye.

Being a relatively new and naïve photographer, Birgitta joined CoPA to learn more about the art and craft of photography, to connect with other photographers, and to lend her enthusiasm to the organization.

Birgitta’s work can be found on the web at pop1studios.com and instagram.com/pop.1studios.

Ryan Hanaman

Director

Ryan fell in love with photography in a darkroom in highschool and its been his life ever since.

Ryan graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a BFA in photography in 2007. He has been a staff photographer at Kohl’s since 2009 and has created a wide array of imagery for a wide array of uses. Ryan has also garnered an extensive working knowledge of constructing, repairing, and enhancing digital images through retouching everything from Harley-Davidson to Food Network imagery. In his personal work he has a strong affinity for texture, color, and composition.