$100 Refund for October 2-5, 2014 Video Workshop

WASHINGTON, DC, 6 September 2014 — Get a $100 refund when you join us at the October 2-5, 2014 Video Workshop in Washington, DC. Learn to “Raise Your Voice!” by making powerful videos during this four-day, total immersion into the visual storytelling craft — and save $100 while you’re at it. For more information, click […]

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From, “Born From Blood:” Best Stuff First

KIGALI, Rwanda, 26 July 2014 — I’ve learned to put the best material first in the films I make. Studies show that we have a limited time — just seconds, really — to engage an audience either intellectually or emotionally. If we don’t “hook” them in that brief time period, we lose them. I’m making […]

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From “Born From Blood:” How to Pan

KIGALI, Rwanda, 26 July 2014 — I traveled really light on this trip to Rwanda, carrying only my iPhone and no other gear. No tripod. So it was nice to know how to make a fairly steady pan when I saw the opportunity. I visited a community project in the Rwandan capital, shooting my central […]

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Raise Your Voice! at October 2-5 Video Workshop

WASHINGTON, DC, 20 August 2014 — Learn to Raise Your Voice! with video at my Video Workshop in the nation’s capital on October 2-5. This four-day workshop is an intensive immersion in the craft of visual storytelling. Learn to tell powerful video stories. Raise Your Voice! about issues that are important to you. To register, […]

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Nicaragua Photos on Cover of Joan Didion’s “A Book of Common Prayer”

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 […]

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Use Long Lenses to “Pull” elements of the Image Together

ARUSHA, Tanzania, 2 August 2014 — A Masai goat herder tends to his animals on a highway just outside of Arusha, on the way to Tanzania’s National Park. Had I not made this image from a moving vehicle, I would have stepped back and used a longer focal length on the camera lens, to “pull” […]

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