SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, 18 September 2014 — I visited this morning with staff of the Salvadoran daily newspaper, La Prensa Grafica, one of the largest and most influential outlets in this Central American country. Invited by the US Embassy in San Salvador, I spoke with the staff members about the role of journalism in […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 19 August 2014 — I received confirmation this morning that two of the images from my book of photographs, “Nicaragua,” will be used as the cover of Audible’s audio edition of “A Book of Common Prayer,” by Joan Didion. This is a great honor, with so much connective tissue. I never had the […]
GURJAANI, Georgia, 26 May 2014 Enjoying a bit of Georgian hospitality at a small brewery just outside the town of Gurjaani. Im working with a dozen members of the Network of Information Centers, teaching them how to make videos that rock. Im in Georgia at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi to […]
AKHALTSIKHE, Georgia, 20 May 2014 During my Backpack Journalism Workshop in the town of Akhaltsikhe, the local newspaper interviewed me about the event. Ive been pleased with the reception from the local media, which is just beginning to make headway into the methodology. They all seem to be interested in making videos that rock. […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 17 November 2013 So youve finished the production stage of your documentary. Youve got a pile of media in the hard drive. And youre looking at a blank time line. Now what? Every filmmaker devises his/her own system for the post-production stage of the process, but heres what Ive found to be […]