PhotoSensitive’s 20th anniversary
In mid-September, PhotoSensitive celebrated its 20th anniversary with the retrospective exhibition and book Field of Vision: 20 Years of Social Change. Also produced for the event was this seven-and-a-half minute video featuring interviews with several of the founding photographers including Dick Loek, Peter Bregg, Bernard Weil, Patti Gower and Tony Hauser.
Behind the Veil, One in 8 Million win Emmys
Congratulations go out to The Globe and Mail’s multimedia team — including photographer Paula Lerner, reporter Jessica Leeder and multimedia producer Jayson Taylor (now at the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, N.S.) – for their second Emmy win in row. Last night Behind the Veil won the Emmy for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: [...]
Via bulb: thinking outside the box with Mark Lubell
Just came across Gerald Holubowicz‘s 29-minute video interview with Magnum New York’s Mark Lubell, the fourth in the French photographer’s “Sortir du Cadir” (think out of the box) series. Lots of good stuff here, including the managing director on: – being open-minded re: distribution platforms and interactivity – why the first thing out of a photographer’s [...]
Animated poetry, creative collaboration
Anticipating How To Be Alone will soon make a MediaStorm or Multimedia Shooter must-watch list. For now, it’s on mine. (Via NFB on Facebook.) Poem and performance by Tanya Davis, film (animation, photography and editing) by Andrea Dorfman. Walter Forsyth is the producer.
The Burning question
What came first, the story or the storyteller, and should one be stronger than the other? it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario, but over in the “dialogue” section on Burn, David Alan Harvey is once again getting his faithful to weigh in with their thoughts on what makes for good storytelling after a viewer [...]
And the multimedia Emmy nominees are . .
Announced this morning: nominations for the 31st annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, which include two multimedia categories. Among the nominees was the Globe and Mail’s Behind the Veil series, produced by Jayson Taylor, which received a nod in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Current News Coverage category. A couple of my personal [...]
Soul of Athens: What You Have
More on the theme of home: “What You Have” is a really nice series of video portraits by Brad Vest and Kelsey Spellman. A girl in the woods. A believer. An 80-year-old seeking to live out the rest of his life in peace. A couple and their “holler”. There is a continuous search for something [...]
notebook Q&A: Eric Maierson on Three Women
It’s been just over a week since I received this email from Eric Maierson: “Thanks for all the great plugs for MediaStorm. Did you have a chance to check out ‘Three Women’? Be curious to hear your thoughts.” Thus began an email conversation about Eric’s new piece — a series of three monologues depicted with [...]
The two Airsicks
I went to check out MediaStorm‘s relaunched site this morning but got sidetracked by the presence of Airsick, which first appeared in January, 2008 at thestar.com in advance of Earth Hour. My first thought: wow, how cool for Lucas Oleniuk (photog), Scott Simmie (editor) and Bernard Weil (graphics and production). My second, always-an-editor thought: what did they change? [...]
Neighbourhood Stories
I’m going to try to make it out to this week’s launch of a new Neighbourhood Stories Project co-facilitated by Jen Lafontaine of the Centre for Digital Storytelling Toronto, whom I met in 2008 during the Envisioning workshop. The photos, audio portraits and videos being shown this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Regent Park [...]
Seven from the week
Seven things I read/watched/noticed/thought about this week: Soul of Athens, the fourth-annual project by grad students in Ohio University’s School of Communications, launched Expression, the first of five sections featuring multimedia and still photography about the people of Athens, Ohio. The next one, Passage, launches June 15. Expression’s main piece is Banks of the Ohio. [...]
Envisioning
This morning I received an email announcing the launch of www.envisioningnewmeanings.ca, the website for “Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference.” I was still working at the Toronto Star as a copy editor when my friend Lorna Renooy asked me if I wanted to participate in the initiative’s first workshops, which put photo and storytelling [...]
My second MIM
(Click the photo above to watch the MIM on the Magnum site.) When Mark Power was in Toronto last May he, like the other Magnum photographers in town for the CONTACT workshops, gave a talk about his work. Much of what I remembered from that night was about how about geography and imagination inspired him. [...]
My first MIM
The title of my first MIM, a co-production with Adrian Kelterborn, comes from this quote from Marilyn Silverstone, from a brief but unpublished memoir she wrote before her death in 1999. I was lying on my bed with the mumps, musing on mortality, when someone gave me Fosco Maraini’s book Secret Tibet. It opened up [...]
Contemplating Three
Book cover of Three, by Ed Kashi. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a copy of Ed Kashi’s Three at the ICP bookstore. Bit by bit I’ve been poking through it, delighting in the pages that in some cases fold out to present the photos in each triptych side by side on individual pages. [...]
95% grant writer, contest enterer, Final Cut editor . . .
Brent Foster is once again writing a week-long blog at NPAC. For those of us from the Canadian photojournalism community and his photojournalism school alma mater, Loyalist College, who look to the 27-year-old former staff photog turned multimedia wunderkind as a bit of a mentor, Foster puts his year as a freelancer in perspective in [...]
Soul Journey
A few things have been kicking around in my head lately, spurred initially by a conversation I had with a friend about intimacy, or more specifically, false intimacy. The conversation was online – and this way of communicating was actually a part of our quasi-philosophical discussion. Then a few days ago, while going through the process [...]
Magnum in Motion
On Thursday I started a three-month internship at Magnum in Motion, along with Eva Filgueira, a photographer from Spain. After getting a sense of what MIMs and photographers we were attracted to, and why, Adrian Kelterborn gave Eva and me our first assignments. I’m excited to be working on a piece on a photographer who [...]
More than photos: the changing role of photojournalists in Canada
John Packman has a well-written and insightful piece on NPAC about how in this day and age photographers need to be able to do multimedia, with quotes from Loyalist’s Frank O’Connor, the Globe‘s Moe Doiron, and former Toronto Star e-i-c Fred Kuntz, among others. Among his quotes: “It’s not enough anymore just to be a [...]
What I’ve been reading/watching
. . . . LA Times piece on shelter options for homeless. . . . . about Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi’s Talking Eyes Media . . . . and their piece on taking care of Julie’s father, Herbie, in The Sandwich Generation as well as the various edits/versions of the story, which, in total, [...]
One of my favourites: Friends for Life
I can’t remember when I first saw this piece, but it’s one of my favourites from the year.
The Course
It’s been a while since my last post, largely because the end of November and early December was a busy time, with final assignments and an intense multimedia course in Toronto the weekend of December 5 to 8. I went into “The Course” with a strong idea for a story, only to have the subjects [...]
Damon Winter
I am catching up with some links to multimedia sites Anne-Marie Jackson posted on her blog. To my surprise, two pieces I’ve liked for their images and simplicity can be traced back to slideshows-with-audio-narrative from a single photog, Damon Winter. Here’s his simple diptych approach to the election, The Political Landscape, and, Photographer’s Journal: Following [...]
Always an editor
It’s funny how going back to school for photojournalism has made me realize how much I like editing. But editing is no longer about ledes, copy, headlines, decks and cutlines, as per my life on the desk at the Star and on Starweek, and, several years before, at the Globe. For the past couple of weeks we [...]
