Learn to Connect, Motivate and Earn With Video at my Video Journalism Workshop in Washington, DC, on February 20-23, 2014. Seats are limited and registration closes at midnight on Tuesday, February 4, 2014. The tools for connecting instantly, internationally and in the visual language that needs no translation, are available to us all. Join us […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, 5 January 2014 — A bicyclist cuts his way through early-morning traffic and the thick dust that blankets Kabul. I used a telephoto lens to compress elements in the image, and to enhance the appearance of the smog-like substance.
KABUL, Afghanistan, 5 January 2014 Two boys eat a lunch of leftover rice in a refugee camp on the edge of Kabul. About 1,500 people live in this squalid complex of tents and dirt homes. Especially in winter, as the temperature at night hovers below zero, life here is tenuous, particularly for children. The […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 January 2014 — This is another of the stories produced during my December 2013 Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay. Luis Melgar happened upon a shop whose owner restores artwork. But the man’s real passion is radio. Luis spent a few days with Horacio Nigro, documenting his story, “A Life on […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, WASHINGTON, DC, 28 December 2013 — Seeing is remembering. This is one of the main points that Cecilia Arregui makes in her film about a man trying to preserve the memories of the neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he grew up. Cecilia produced this film during my recent Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in Montevideo, […]
http://videojournalismworkshops.com, WASHINGTON, DC, 28 December 2013 — This is Florencia Traibel’s film about my recent workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay, about the people and about the products. Florencia chose to cover the five-day event as her workshop project, partly as a way to explain the overall experience. Click HERE to watch Florencia’s film. It’s an interesting […]