Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Out Of The Box
When Guy Watson first started growing organic vege on Riverford farm he had three acres of land, a wheelbarrow, and a dream to put fresh produce on the family table at a price everyone could afford.
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5:31 AM
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mishoka's Story
Mishoka's Story is Part 4 in a 4-part series produced by duckrabbit for Condition Critical, a groundbreaking digital campaign by Medecins Sans Frontieres to raise awareness about the conflict in Eastern Congo. Violent conflict has plagued this region for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing the violence in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. People are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen.
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5:33 AM
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Migrating South: Snowbirds In Quartzsite
Every winter Quartzsite, Arizona, livens with activity thanks to over a million visitors. The otherwise barren and quiet town swells with people as it becomes a haven for snowbirds escaping the harsh winters of the north. Many call it Burning Man for the elderly. Enjoy a visit to this unique destination produced by Ackerman Gruber Images.
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12:01 PM
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Gimme Shelter
Along the Los Angeles River are invisible cities whose population centers do not figure on official maps. The river's littered banks have become a no-man's land for the homeless the hardcore junkies, the mentally ill and those just trying to disappear. A dozen or so people live in tents and lean-tos under the 7th Street bridge in Long Beach, just one of the many invisible villages along the river.
Click here to view the audio slideshow "Gimme Shelter" produced for the Los Angeles Times by Marc Martin. Photography and audio by Francine Orr.
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6:40 AM
Monday, July 26, 2010
A Life Alone
Photographer and Producer Maisie Crow is a graduate student in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. She is currently living in New York City. You can view her multimedia essay on life alone after the death of a spouse here.
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6:48 AM
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friend Or Foe? In Afghanistan, The Picture Is Unclear
The region around Kandahar city in Afghanistan is the Taliban's birthplace and breeding ground. That makes it a key location in the U.S. military's security efforts. But "securing" a region in which you can hardly distinguish friend from foe is far easier said than done. NPR staff photographer David Gilkey just returned from the region, where he spent time with the 101st Airborne Division. Their mission is two-fold: chase out the Taliban and win the trust of locals...if they can.
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8:29 PM
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Bellevue
The 30th Street Men´s Shelter, otherwise known as Bellevue, is New York City's largest homeless shelter. A combination of mentally ill, parolees, substance abusers and people simply down on their luck are all housed together in this shelter.
Produced by Eric Johnson and narrated by tenant Carl Foye, "Bellevue" gives the viewer an insiders perspective on what it feels like to live there and how he keeps a positive outlook on life.
Produced by Eric Johnson and narrated by tenant Carl Foye, "Bellevue" gives the viewer an insiders perspective on what it feels like to live there and how he keeps a positive outlook on life.
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7:09 AM
Friday, July 23, 2010
Mongolian Racer
Here's a beautiful travel multimedia piece titled Mongolian Racer by The Guardian photographer Dan Chung, and narrated by Tania Branigan that I found on The Travel Photographer site.
The multimedia piece is on a horse trainer and his 10-year-old jockey who face the biggest day of their year at Mongolia's Naadam festival, which dates back to before Genghis Khan's time and celebrates the 'manly sports' of wrestling, archery and racing.
The Mongolian traditional festival of Naadam is also called in the local dialect as "the three games of men". These Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery. The festival is held throughout the country during the midsummer holidays, however the largest is in Ulaanbaatar.
For the techies, the piece was shot using Canon 1DmkIV, 5DMkII, 550D and GoPro HD camera, and a load of ancillary gear which is described in length in Dan Chung's blog DSLR News Shooter.
The multimedia piece is on a horse trainer and his 10-year-old jockey who face the biggest day of their year at Mongolia's Naadam festival, which dates back to before Genghis Khan's time and celebrates the 'manly sports' of wrestling, archery and racing.
The Mongolian traditional festival of Naadam is also called in the local dialect as "the three games of men". These Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery. The festival is held throughout the country during the midsummer holidays, however the largest is in Ulaanbaatar.
For the techies, the piece was shot using Canon 1DmkIV, 5DMkII, 550D and GoPro HD camera, and a load of ancillary gear which is described in length in Dan Chung's blog DSLR News Shooter.
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5:47 AM
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Johnnie Footman, New York City Cabbie
Johnnie Footman, 90, may be the oldest cab driver in New York City. With a cigar hanging from his mouth, a plastic spider around his neck, and a cap that reads "Old Dude made of Achey Breaky Parts," Johnnie still manages to make it to the shop five days a week.
Johnnie, also known as "Spider," started driving a taxi in 1945 after working in a garage with his uncle. He used to ride to work on his Harley (where his nickname hails from), and was notorious for picking up women. In his career he has managed to shuttle around a slew of characters including some of the most annoying customers, as well as celebrities, like Rock Hudson.
He rides to work in his Chevy Blazer with a Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy attached to the rear bumper. Although his age has limited him, he avoids highway driving and only works a day or two in the cab per week, he still remains young at heart.
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6:06 AM
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Dad Project
The photo essay below was produced by Briony Campbell who documented her father's battle with terminal illness. She introduces the slideshow with the following comments.
This is the story of an ending without an ending. This is a work in progress and I hope it always will be. This is my attempt to say goodbye to my Dad with the help of my camera. Being a good daughter to my dying dad was tricky. I struggled to find the balance between dedication to his needs and distraction from my grief. At first the idea of introducing a camera into this already un-resolvable equation seemed unwise, but eventually I think it became the solution.
You can view the entire series of images here.
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12:30 PM
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
A Diary Of Healing
Mary Ann Wasil Nilan is sitting in the rectory of Saint Ann Church when Father Tom walks in and her cell phone rings. She is waiting to hear results from the doctor regarding the biopsy of her left breast. The voice on the other end of the phone asks if she is driving, if she is alone, and if her family is with her. And then, very apologetically, the doctor gives her the news. Her left breast does indeed have cancer.
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3:02 PM
Monday, July 19, 2010
Leathal Leather
Amy Johansson recently coproduced, with Gabrielle Jönsson, an audio slideshow titled Lethal Leather about the Bangladesh hide industry including its medieval conditions and the lethal toxic consequences on its workers.
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12:45 PM
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Sandwich Generation
Filmmaker-photographer couple Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi were busy pursuing their careers and raising two children when Winokur's 83-year-old father, Herbie, became too infirm to care for himself.
At that moment they joined some twenty million other Americans who make up the sandwich generation, those who find themselves responsible for the care of both their children and their aging parents.
Authors of the book "Aging in America: The Years Ahead," which chronicles the country's fastest-growing segment of the population, Winokur and Kashi decided to tell their own story as they took on the care of Winokur's father. In The Sandwich Generation, they have created an honest, intimate account of their own shifting and challenging responsibilities, as well as some of their unexpected joys.
At that moment they joined some twenty million other Americans who make up the sandwich generation, those who find themselves responsible for the care of both their children and their aging parents.
Authors of the book "Aging in America: The Years Ahead," which chronicles the country's fastest-growing segment of the population, Winokur and Kashi decided to tell their own story as they took on the care of Winokur's father. In The Sandwich Generation, they have created an honest, intimate account of their own shifting and challenging responsibilities, as well as some of their unexpected joys.
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11:36 AM
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Haiti Now And Everyday
Bruce Gilden's no newcomer to Haiti. He'd made no fewer than 19 trips to the distressed Caribbean nation between 1984 and 1995, and he felt compelled to return following the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010. Although the Haitian capital of Port au Prince brought up familiar memories, Gilden found its architecture destroyed and its population wounded, distressed and displaced. Yet, everywhere in the midst of destruction, among those who lost a limb, those who set up beds in the streets or in their cars at night, or those who built neat and colorful makeshift shacks from any kind of salvaged material, the Haitian people's ineffable spirit proves indestructible.
You can access Bruce's compelling slideshow here.
You can access Bruce's compelling slideshow here.
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9:25 PM
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Drawing The War
Drawing the War is Part 3 in a 4-part series produced by duckrabbit for Condition Critical, a groundbreaking digital campaign by Medecins Sans Frontieres to raise awareness about the conflict in Eastern Congo. Violent conflict has plagued this region for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing the violence in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. People are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen.
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1:21 PM
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
His Body A Prison
In the prime of his life, rendered a quadriplegic. Photography and audio by Liz O. Baylen for the Los Angeles Times.
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3:09 PM
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
The Rape Of A Nation
John le Carre is a photojournalist with VII and provides the following introduction for his video slideshow, "The Rape of a Nation."
Congo is a continuing human tragedy. It is fourteen hundred and fifty tragedies every day. It is more than that if you include the orphaned, the bereaved, the widowed, and all the ripples of truncated lives that spread from a single death. It is you and me and our children and our parents, if we had had the bad luck to be born into the world these photos portray.
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5:32 PM
Monday, July 12, 2010
Left Behind
The following introduction to the photo essay Left Behind was written by Kerry Payne on the Burn Magazine website.
In a small Australian town on June 12th 2001, my father, Myles Hilton Bean took his own life, aged 60. It was a decision I had no say in, but one which would alter me and the way I viewed the world forever. In the years that followed I encountered many social stigmas and outdated taboos associated with suicide. Whilst outwardly I functioned brilliantly, inwardly I was broken. I felt completely alone; haunted by emotions common in suicide bereavement — guilt, regret, anger, a sense of failure, shame, abandonment and utter confusion all hung in heavy layers over the expected feelings of grief and mourning.
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3:35 PM
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Friends For Life
Warren DeWitt was a 76-year-old unmarried gentleman who lived alone. 90-year-old Arden Peters was struggling to care for his Alzheimer-stricken wife. When the two men met over breakfast at a local Wal-Mart one morning, they struck up a friendship that would ultimately ease the burden of old age for both of them.
Friends for Life is an excerpt of Aging in America: The Years Ahead, a groundbreaking, many-faceted film by multimedia innovators Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur. In it, they explore the various challenges faced by the fastest-growing segment of the American population. As Arden says, "When you get this old you don't look forward — you just live day to day."
Friends for Life is an excerpt of Aging in America: The Years Ahead, a groundbreaking, many-faceted film by multimedia innovators Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur. In it, they explore the various challenges faced by the fastest-growing segment of the American population. As Arden says, "When you get this old you don't look forward — you just live day to day."
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2:41 PM
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Forgotten On The Roof Of The World
View a 5 minute trailer of the 28 minute multimedia documentary Forgotten on the Roof of the World. It tells the story of a little known tribe of Kirghiz nomads in one of earth's most remote regions, Afghanistan's High Pamirs mountains. Leading the viewer through this people's stories of struggle and survival, of opium addiction and infant mortality, French photographer Matthieu Paley and American anthropologist Ted Callahan narrate the film in word and image. Their documentation covers the tribe's unique barter trade with a small community in Pakistan as well as their routines and traditions, "at home" in Afghanistan. Beneath the surface, the documentary addresses one of humanities most elementary themes - Homeland - giving a global context to the story of a seemingly insignificant forgotten tribe.
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11:15 AM
Friday, July 9, 2010
Metamorphosis
Click here to view a slideshow of photographs of Peggy Battin and her husband Brooke Hopkins set to narration by Battin describing how their lives have been changed by Hopkins' bicycling accident in November 2008. Battin has devoted her decades-long career to medical ethics, particularly end of life issues and the role people play in the ends of their own lives.
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3:23 PM
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Bahati's Story
Bahati's Story is Part 2 in a 4-part series produced by duckrabbit for Condition Critical, a groundbreaking digital campaign by Medecins Sans Frontieres to raise awareness about the conflict in Eastern Congo. Violent conflict has plagued this region for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing the violence in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. People are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen.
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6:16 PM
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Praying For The Rain
Praying For The Rain is duckrabbit’s award winning portrait of one of the many camps housing Kenyans displaced by 2008′s post election violence.
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12:31 PM
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
World Cup 2010
On the occasion of the World Cup coming to Africa for the first time, Magnum photographers take a look at soccer as a global game.
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9:48 AM
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Days With My Father
I've had the privilege of spending the past week with my parents in my hometown of Victoria, BC. I was especially grateful to be here today on the 4th of July to celebrate my father's 90th birthday. Although his mind remains sharp, it's tough watching him deteriorate physically as he no longer can hear well enough to engage in family banter and finds it very difficult to ambulate without aid.
Phillip Toledano explored the concept of watching someone you love slowly fade in his thought provoking photographic essay Days With My Father.
Happy Birthday Dad.
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3:04 PM
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Living With Cerebral Palsy
Christopher Capozziello is a freelance photographer from Hamden, Connecticut. His work focuses on documenting both life around him, and stories that are outside of his own experiences. He believes that there is a redemptive quality to photography; that it can take the unpleasant or repulsive and make it beautiful, not by misleading anyone, but by allowing the viewer to stop and take a deeper look at the subject. As a photojournalist, his method of making pictures is not something new or incredibly deep – it is, simply, to tell the truth. Christopher introduces Living With Cerebral Palsy with the following narrative.
In most cases, photojournalists are encouraged to use their cameras to explore experiences outside of their own life, in order to understand the world around them. This body of work is really different for me, in that I used my camera as a tool to investigate issues in my own life, as I started to make pictures of my brother Nick. Over the course of years, one image lead to another, and they became a way for me to really process and deal with the realities of having a twin live with cerebral palsy, while I lead a rather normal life. As my brother’s story has changed, and grown, and developed, so have my pictures of him. Looking through my camera has brought me a step back, enabling me to really watch and listen, to learn and perhaps have a better grasp on what is happening in his life. The suffering he has experienced has raised all sorts of questions for me. The question we are most prone to ask when hardship strikes – why me? – makes no sense. That question presupposes that pain, disease, and death are distributed according to moral merit. They are not.
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2:28 PM
Friday, July 2, 2010
Through Positive Eyes
Through Positive Eyes gives photographic voice to people living with HIV in major cities around the world. It is based on the belief that HIV-positive people should pick up their own cameras and make their own artistic statements. In doing so, they create powerful tools for combating stigma, which is one of the most formidable barriers in reducing the spread of AIDS today.
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8:50 PM
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Francoise's Story
Francoise's Story is Part 1 in a 4-part series produced by duckrabbit for Condition Critical, a groundbreaking digital campaign by Medecins Sans Frontieres to raise awareness about the conflict in Eastern Congo. Violent conflict has plagued this region for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing the violence in North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale provinces. People are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen.
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5:49 PM
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