Moving forward

I have decided to step down from my position as Director of Video at The Los Angeles Times.  It was a difficult decision to make.

Journalism of the highest caliber continues to be practiced at the LA Times on an hourly basis by a staff of amazing visual journalists and writers.  My time at the organization was filled with challenges, excitement and incredible experiences.  I learned more than I thought I ever would.

But despite my happiness, I began to miss documentary filmmaking.

As a documentary filmmaker, I have been privileged to report, photograph and witness some of the most important stories and topics over the past decade.  I have filmed in extremist mosques in Pakistan weeks after the attacks on September 11th, covered the invasion of Iraq as a unilateral journalist, followed a wounded U.S. soldier home to Pennsylvania, reported on ethnic tensions in northern Iraq, told the story of America’s secret war in Laos, covered various parts of the war in Afghanistan and have followed an artist placing a sculpture on a rocky outcropping in Iceland to honor an extinct bird.

Filmmaking and storytelling is my passion. Documentary filmmaking now faces an unclear future, and as I follow my passion to make films, I will be continuing the search for sustainability in visual storytelling. It has been a true honor to help guide a talented staff of video journalists at the LA Times over the past two and a half years, but it was time once again to return to the field.

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