ACCRA, Ghana, 23 November 2015 — Sara Stealy, Press Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Ghana, addresses participants, hosts and special guests at the opening session of my Backpack Video Journalism Workshop in the Ghanaian capital. Nicholas Derry, Director at the Ministry of Communications, delivers the opening address. Participants begin the first session. The five-day […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 1 November 2015 — Just over a week ago I donated the use and distribution of my photojournalism collection to the library at American University. The collection includes some 30,000 images that I generated since beginning my career in 1977. During the ceremony marking the donation, I delivered a brief address, mostly to […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 30 October 2015 — I shot and produced this film while on assignment this summer in the Ecuadorian Amazon for Eric Hershberg and his Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS). This assignment was funded by CLALS’ grant from the Henry Luce Foundation on “Religion and International Affairs.” You can see the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 22 October 2015 — This event marked the formal handover, to the library at American University, of the use and distribution of some 30,000 images that I’ve generated over nearly four decades while working mostly for Newsweek Magazine. These include images from my coverage of Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, the […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 16 October 2015 — Legendary CBS television correspondent Marvin Kalb addresses a crowd at the Cosmos Club in the nation’s capital. The event was held to honor the latest winners of overseas reporting fellowships from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Kalb is a Senior Advisor at the Center. Among those winners were […]
WASHINGTON, DC, 15 October 2015 — This is my dining room. No food. Just pictures. A small part of the collection whose use I am donating to the library at American University. Nearly 40 years of visual history from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, this week will become part of […]