DAN FERRIGAN photographer

Award-winning photojournalist,Dan Ferrigan, has worked on five films including The Way We Get By, Getting Rid of Libby, BLUR, and To Serve and Protect. In 2007, Dan traveled to India where he worked on India: A New Life, commissioned by PBS-Frontline World. Dan currently is a photojournalist for New England Cable News (NECN). In 2006, he worked on The Long Journey Home, a 30-minute documentary on the “Face of America 2006” bike ride for able-bodied and disabled veterans that aired on New England Cable News (NECN) and had showings across New England.

Dan began his film career by co-writing, directing and editing a 30-minute short film Getting Rid of Libby which has been screened at numerous venues across the Northeast. In 2003, a screenplay he co-wrote, titled Loomis, was a finalist in Project Greenlight 2. Project Greenlight was a screenplay contest sponsored by HBO & Miramax. Loomis ranked in the top 4% of over 6,000 scripts. He is currently working on a number of other screenplays.

Dan began his career in television news. He worked for ABC affiliates around the country as a photojournalist before settling down in Boston. He has won an AP award, an American Heart Association award and was the photographer on an Edward R Murrow Award winning project.

Dan grew up in Winslow, Maine and currently resides in Boston.