MEXICO CITY, 8 March 2017 — A masked participant proceeds down the Avenida de la Reforma, a principle avenue in the Mexican capital, in a march for women’s rights. American University graduate student and Teaching Assistant Matt Cipollone made this image (taken from the video he shot) when we traveled to Mexico to shoot “FREELANCERS […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 28 October 2017 — The post-production team is working on various aspects of the pilot for the documentary series, “FREELANCERS.” We put in a solid day on the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign — to be launched in a week. Clockwise from foreground in bottom left is my wife, Esther, Matt Cipollone, Danielle Criss and […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 28 October 2017 — Getting ready to mount and then launch an Indiegogo campaign to help finance my upcoming series, “FREELANCERS,” about the freelance foreign correspondents increasingly filling the void left by mainstream media outlets cutting staff and closing news bureaus around the world. The prints are from my book of photographs, “Nicaragua.” […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 20 October 2017 — I’m offering my “Backpack Documentary en Español” course — the first-ever, all-Spanish class offered by American University’s School of Communication — in Spring 2018. Registration for Spring semester begins next week. This is the second time I’m offering this course, which I’ve designed to help students engage and embrace […]
HUAYTAPALLANA, Peru, 21 June 2017 – Peruvians gather on a ridge overlooking the glacier and lake below to celebrate the Andean New Year. In recent years the glacier has lost much of its mass, which scientists believe is the result of global climate change. The depletion of the ice means the depletion of an important […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 7 May 2017 — During a March trip to Nogales, Mexico, I interviewed Ioan Grillo (R), a freelance foreign correspondent based in Mexico City who works with The New York Times and Time magazine. American University Graduate Teaching Assistant Matt Cipollone and I accompanied Grillo during much of his reporting trip for this […]