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It’s All About Light: Video Journalism

KABUL, Afghanistan 6 January 2014 — I keep going back to this: It’s all about light. And how light plays on form, and composition, and movement. Light is our primary raw material. I made this image (it’s a screen shot from video) at a market in Kabul, while working on a documentary about a team […]

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Video Journalism Workshop February 20-23

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 […]

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Lonely Road In Kabul

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.  

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Navigating Misery and Video Journalism

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 […]

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Video Journalism in the Shadow of War

KABUL, Afghanistan, 3 January 2014 — Afghan kids play soccer in the shadow of the wreckage of a military truck in this nation’s capital. I’m here filming a documentary about a team of female Afghan university students competing in an international arbitration contest to be held in Hong Kong later this year. The competition is […]

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“A Life on the Wave,” by Luis Melgar

  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 […]

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