After getting a doctorate in literature from Oxford University, Greg Kelly returned to his native Canada, where his first job was that of proofreading Harlequin Romances. He later started doing documentary radio work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which led to an award-winning career in both radio and television.
“Beyond Words: Photographers of War” has been sold to about twenty countries and screened in New York, London, Paris, Vancouver, Toronto, Bangkok, Moscow and at the Visa pour l’image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. It’s won several awards and was described by the eminence grise of photojournalism John G. Morris as being “the most important film documentary about photojournalism ever made.” There is no narrator in this documentary. Instead, twenty-four of the world’s top photojournalists tell the story of what photographs and the practice of photography mean to them.
Kelly is the senior producer and co-creator of “The Story with Dick Gordon” a nationally syndicated radio program on National Public Radio.
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On September 25, 2007 photographer Steve Liss visited UNC photojournalism students as part of the school’s monthly PhotoNight lecture.
Steve Liss, a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, has been a news photographer since the age of 17 when he began taking pictures for his hometown weekly newspaper, The Quincy Sun. He has been photographing the United States for Time since 1976.
Though he’s covered six presidential campaigns, his greatest satisfaction comes from exploring themes of social significance through photographs of everyday life. Forty-three of his photographs have appeared on the cover of Time and he has won numerous awards from the National Press Photographer’s Association, Pictures of the Year, and the World Press Association. In 2004 he was awarded the Soros Justice Media Fellowship for his book No Place For Children: Voices From Juvenile Detention (University of Texas Press, 2005) and in 2005 he received an Alicia Patterson Fellowship to continue documenting poverty in America. Most recently he was the recipient of the 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for coverage of issues affecting the disadvantaged. Liss teaches photojournalism at the graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
This week’s photos are part of our Bridging the Gap assignment, in which we asked students to build rapport with a person with whom they share almost nothing in common. The goal: to capture revealing images and explore worlds that we might otherwise overlook.
After viewing Apple's profile video on graphic design company TRAFIK, I knew that I had to learn more about them. Located in Lyon, France, this small team of eight designers and developers has made a big impact in the interactive development sector. […]
"Life In A Day" is the brain child of producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald. On July 24th, they asked users around the world to document a specific part of their day and upload it to YouTube for consideration in their experimental documentary. Now, they are tediously reviewing the 80,000 submissions to piece together the best for the d […]
Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Conde Nast Manhattans Upper West Side made a dramatic backdrop for models walking the runway during Fashion’s Night Out: The Show at Lincoln Center on September 7, 2010 in New York City. These uber-coiffed and impeccably dressed creatures were beautifully misplaced, taken out of their high fashion runway box and put on [...] […]
Not long ago I had the opportunity to chat with Stuart McLean, the founder of Osmosis, a company that delivers customized multi-touch systems of hardware and software that support human-centered natural user interaction. Stuart has many years of experience working in more traditional IT/business roles, and knows from this experience that there is better way […]
The 2010 FRANCE24-RFI Web Documentary Award jury met last week in Perpignan, France at the 22nd International Photojournalism Festival, Visa pour l’Image, and gave special distinction recognition to Times of Crisis, an interactive Web site produced by Jassim Ahmad and Ayperi Karabuda of Reuters, in association with MediaStorm. The Executive Producer was Bria […]
Join Brian Storm, Founder and Executive Producer of MediaStorm, for a special presentation on Multimedia Storytelling during the DUMBO Arts Festival, on Friday, September 24, 2010, from 6-8 pm, at St. Ann’s Warehouse. The event is free and open to the public. Seating will be first come, first served. Multimedia Storytelling @ MediaStorm We’re all storyteller […]
I never thought I would have a good reason to blog about a music video - until now that is! Music director Chris Milk teamed with Google developers to produce the interactive experience "The Wilderness Downtown" for Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait." Built in HTML5, the site integrates Google Maps and Google Earth to provide a cus […]
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via Getty Images In this photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on August 28, 2010, Paris Hilton is pictured in a police booking photo in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to reports, Hilton and her boyfriend Cy Waits were arrested late Friday night after being stopped on the Las [...] […]
It’s the simple things that matter. And whoever said that wasn’t wrong. That’s why we’ve just taken a look at our site and concentrated our efforts on the little things that all add up to a much better experience for everyone who visits. We’ve made our search tool more, well, searching. We’ve made the nuts and [...] […]
If you’re heading to Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France this year, Brian Storm will be giving two multimedia presentations: Multimedia Storytelling @ MediaStorm Thursday, September 2, 2010, from 3-5 pm, at Palais des Congres The digital age is giving photojournalists extraordinary new ways to report and distribute stories. We have a greater level of auth […]
Getty Images and Bridges to Understanding are honored to be among a strong group of partners supporting the Democracy Photo Challenge, a public-private partnership with the U.S. State Department. The project invites people around the world to complete the phrase, “Democracy is..” with their photo. The Democracy Photo Challenge received nearly 3,000 entries f […]
From July 17-23, 2010, a team of three participants, along with MediaStorm Producer Jennifer Redfearn, researched, reported, and produced Exodus during our seventh MediaStorm Multimedia Workshop. Diana Ortiz spent over half her life in prison for a crime she committed when she was a teenager. Now 45, she has turned her life around and works [...] […]
MediaStorm welcomes interns Drew Jordan and AJ Maclean to our team. They will both be working with us this fall on some exciting multimedia and interactive design projects. Drew Jordan is currently finishing his graduate project to fulfill a Master’s degree in multimedia at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Since completing […]
We will be holding a MediaStorm Methodology Workshop January 10-15, 2011, at our offices in Brooklyn, NY. This workshop is targeted specifically at educators looking to create curricula based on our approach, for organizational leaders tasked with creating and leading multimedia departments, and for professionals looking to start their own media company or i […]
We are excited to welcome Pam Huling and Tim McLaughlin to MediaStorm. Pam will lead our Business Development efforts, and Tim, or first intern back in 2008, returns as a Multimedia Producer. Prior to joining MediaStorm, Pam Huling owned Gaslight Media Consulting, LLC, with clients in Switzerland and New York City. She currently serves on the [...] […]
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The international jury of the 52nd annual World Press Photo Contest have selected a black-and-white image by American photographer Anthony Suau as World Press Photo of the Year 2008. The picture shows an armed officer of the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s... […]
"It’s rare for a day to go by in which the president of the United States is not seen in multiple newspaper and magazine photographs. The “clack” of shutters and the accompanying burst of light from camera flashes is part... […]
I case you missed last weeks announcement of Nikon’s new flagship DSLR, the full frame D3X, here a few of the important stats. FX-format CMOS image sensor with 24.5 effective megapixels. Low noise from ISO 100 to ISO 1600. Near-instantaneous... […]
