PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 7 May 2014 I went out with a group of students today to work on a photo essay of the citys port area. These are some of the participants. Though only one of the students is practicing video journalism, I teach photojournalism as the foundation of the video and filmmaking craft. In […]
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 6 May 2014 Participants in my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop watch Chain Gang as a tool for learning how to use characters to drive home my lesson on building visual stories. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews with local journalists, students and others. The central theme of the […]
PARAMARIBO, Suriname, 4 May 2014 The walk on the tarmac from my plane to the airport terminal brought me back to the tropics. The smell of wood fires for cooking. The deep humidity. A cool evening breeze. The sunset. Smelled like Nicaragua. Im here for a week of workshops, presentations and interviews about the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 23 February 2014 — Check out the group photo at the end of our Video Journalism Workshop this past weekend. We had a diverse, international group. From left is Bruce Jones, Jerry Gardiner from Liberia, Will Hoffinger, Mariana Alvarez Joyal from Venezuela, me, Zar Sarmast from Afghanistan, my wife Esther from Cuba, David […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 February 2014 — In the summer of 2005 a four-man team of US Navy SEALs dispatched to a mountainous region of northern Afghanistan in search of a renowned Taliban leader. Surrounded by enemy fighters, the SEALs called for backup. But when 16 Special Forces soldiers arrived on the scene in a Chinook […]
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.