While looking for a story about climate change in North America, photographer Nina Berman stumbled upon a tiny subject with a huge impact. The Mountain Pine Beetle is an 8 mm-long (about 1/3 of an inch) insect that is killing millions of acres of forest across Canada and the northern United States. Continue reading »
DOCUMENTARY FILM TO BE DISTRIBUTED VIA NEWSPAPER – Gannett has announced that its newspapers will distribute one million copies of a documentary film made by the organization The Smile Train, which helps children in developing countries. The film, “Smile Pinki”, follows Pinki, a young girl in rural India whose life is transformed when she receives free surgery to correct her cleft lip. The Smile Train’s mission is to help very poor children in developing countries who are suffering from cleft lip. Continue reading »
Jun 052009
The National Press Photographers Association’s annual Convergence conference, which includes the Multimedia Immersion workshop, Women in Photojournalism seminars and the Visual Journalism seminars, starts early Saturday morning at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Continue reading »
Varanasi, India : Holy Waters – Images by Brent Foster
Multimedia journalist and publisher of Visual Journalist, Brent Foster, has a new set of images from India. Continue reading »
The videojournalism staff of the Los Angeles Times has produced some really cool stories in the past few weeks.
Photographer James Hill narrates a slideshow of farming photographs from Russia on the New York Times website. The story, which has been repeated on every continent, is about a how modernization in the farm industry is affecting the workers and their way of life.
It’s an interesting show but the photographs aren’t unexpected. Hill has some nice moments sprinkled through the story. One example is a photograph of a young Russian woman wearing shorts and a t-shirt shopping among traditionally dressed, older, farm women, one of who eyes her wearily.
Hill’s photographic strength lies in his ability to put the broad landscape of agrarian Russia into visual order. This is an audio slideshow worth viewing.