Stand Strong For Me

When Bucky Hall decided to stop his drug habit and move his family back to the land on which he was raised, he did so with almost no means to support himself, but the motivation to make a better life for his wife and children. Now, with his wife, Christie, and their two sons, Michael and Aaron, he's begun to put back the pieces of his life. Squatting in a small camper above Carbondale, Ohio, with no electricity or water, on the very land on which he was raised, Bucky and Christie try to make life as normal as possible for their boys while worrying about and figuring out how to obtain the land to which they've returned; a land that carries as many memories as it does troubles.

No-Snitch Culture

Produced by Adam Wisneski, narrated by Michael Overall.

Promised Land: African Traders In China

In Guangzhou, the largest city in south China, thousands of Africans are trying to make a life for themselves as traders in wholesale markets.  Here, they hope to carve out their own piece of the Chinese economical miracle.  Watch the rest of the story here.  Photographs and text by David Hogsholt.

Georgiana DePalma Tedone: The Mozzarella Maker

At 90, Mrs. Tedone still makes the cheese herself, six days a week, for her Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shop.  Listen to the rest of the story here.  Photos by Todd Heisler from the New York Times.

Wreckless Willie, Part 2

Willie Chapman has 10 children in 3 states and he’s 40 years old. Professional boxing matches are still his main source of income and also the only way he can pay child support to see his kids. Because of his age and losing record, Nevada may not license him to fight anymore. Willie also shows signs of dementia, most likely caused from continued brain trauma caused by boxing.

We Are Fine Enough

We Are Fine Enough is an intimate, powerful and sensitive portrayal of the life of an autistic child and the ways in which he and his family cope with his disability. In 1994, Marc Schlossman began a photojournalism project documenting the life of Charlie, a five-year-old boy with severe autism and profound learning difficulties. He has continued documenting Charlie, now 20, and his family. Cynthia Bartlett, Charlie's mother, saw her one-year-old son develop the most severe level of autism within autistic spectrum disorder. Only now is Charlie starting to seek and enjoy social contact. Yet he remains self-injurious, he has no ability to speak and he is incontinent. He is dependent on his mother and those around him for his basic care.

'We Are Fine Enough' consists entirely of still photographs from Charlie's life with a narration by his mother. The film began as four 3-minute films commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK for their '3-Minute Wonders' slot and was broadcast in September 2005. Marc began the project to increase awareness of lives with autism and to build a greater understanding of autistic spectrum disorders. 'We Are Fine Enough' is the culmination in film of a long-term commitment to providing a unique view into lives with autism.

The Boarding House

This multimedia piece, a collaboration between photographer Peter Fryer and David Campbell, documents aspects of the Yemeni community in South Shields, on the River Tyne, in the northeast of England. 

When Ali Said opened his South Shields boarding house for Arab seamen in August 1909, he connected the northeast of England to colonial networks that ran from Europe through Suez to India and beyond. Over time these lodgings in the Holborn district of the town marked a transformation in the character of the region. Although the boarding houses are nearing the end of their life, the Yemeni community continues to be an integral part of South Shields and northeast England. 

Peter Fryer has been photographing the Yemeni community in South Shields for the past ten years. The photographs in this video have been exhibited at the Side Gallery in Newcastle, The Customs House in South Shields, South Shields Museum, and The Hyal Sayeed Foundation in Taiz, Yemen. Future exhibitions are scheduled for galleries in Sana'a and Aden in Yemen. 

For information on David Campbell go to david-campbell.org where this project is discussed further.