Thursday, March 31, 2011

Wars and Revolutions

***Update: Tim Hetherington was killed in April 2011 photographing the Libyan uprising. His dedicated work produced important documents of conflict in the world

Streaming on netflix is Restrepo:
http://restrepothemovie.com/

The documentary follows US platoon fighting in a remote valley of Afghanistan. The story is driven by a few interesting soldiers, narrated effectively through interviews and courageously made by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington.

Tim Hetherington's work for Vanity fair:



Sebastian Junger's book from the experience:


nytimes review

interview of film makers:


Also John Moore talks about his experience photographing in Egypt, Bahrain, and Lybia

Photographer John Moore on 'Epic' Libya Battles, Arab World Revolutions from Mike Fritz on Vimeo.

Read the profile: http://to.pbs.org/fudCZe

Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years.



Yet despite his relative comfort with being on the frontlines, Moore told the NewsHour from his hotel room in Cairo that his latest assignment -a six-week trip that took him to the uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - might have been his most dangerous. Moore recorded the interview for us after sneaking out of Benghazi, Libya en route back to his home in Denver.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

POYi multimedia feature winner

Nytimes as always produces powerful multimedia.
This piece won for best multimedia feature story:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT/Features/28

It has a cohesive use of stills combined with ambient audio (to express location), interviews and some short b-roll video.
Although the quality of the video is not very strong, the video stands out for its emotion and storytelling.
The entire series follows a battalion for a year from deployment in Afghanistan to coming home.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT

Monday, March 7, 2011

POYi multimedia portfolio of the year

POYi (Pictures of the Year International) is a yearly photojournalism contest:
This year's multimedia portfolio of the year 1st place winner is
Leslye Davis a photography student at Western Kentucky University placing first over NY & LA times. She beautifully tells some hard emotional stories. Davis second video has interesting lighting for the interviews.






Second Place
Liz O. Baylen

Los Angeles Times


Third Place
Alice Smeets
Freelance


Award of Excellence
Damon Winter
The New York Times