FotoVisura Grant Winners Announced...

The winners of the FotoVisura Grants have been announced...some amazing work to be seen. Check out the portfolios!

Announcing two new workshops: Las Vegas & Guatemala

We are leading workshops in Las Vegas and Guatemala, click on the title heading and you will be taken to our website. These workshops offer levels of excellence, support and depth unavailable in any workshop anywhere. If you are ready to take your work to the next level then consider enrolling in a workshop.

New link: Transom.org

Received this from Jay Allison at Transom this afternoon. I quote his e-mail below:

* NEW SHOW: Scene of the Crime *

Transom likes to help first-time producers. That's part of our point.
And, we're interested in people with experience in other professions who
want to move toward telling stories in public radio. We've even assisted
(suckered?) doctors and lawyers to change their professions.

Paul Bieber is a private investigator. He searches for evidence in cases
from insurance fraud to murder. Lately, he's decided to get into human
rights investigations and went to Colombia to interview victims of
paramilitary violence. This violence may have been funded by multinational
corporations, a claim that Paul was beginning to investigate, and he wanted
to tell the story for radio. Here it is:
http://transom.org/?p=13256

This is an exciting website with lots of tech info for those of you interested in ALL storytelling options. Radio, especially online radio is an amazing medium.

Check it out.

A modern-day FSA group

David Burnett, Anthony Suau and others have gathered to document the reality of the financial crisis in America. Don't miss this.

http://facingchange.org/

Little Brown Mushroom...

Just happened onto Alec Soth's new-ish blog here:

http://littlebrownmushroom.wordpress.com/

Worth a look.

Hanging the VisualReportage 2007-2010 Retrospective Show - by Nathan Fried-Lipski

Documentary 2010 - 2011: A Beginning

Its Labor Day. By this point you've all received several e-mails welcoming you to the program and with a link to a video - if not, please reach me privately as I might not have a working version of your e-mail address.

We will begin our work in a month and it is not too early to start looking for a project to shoot for the coming semesters. In Documentary the project is critical and will support your growth as a photographer and documentarian, I cannot overstate the importance of this. And so I invite you to use this time to create a list of possible subjects and begin researching. Along with access and availability the research you do will help form your point of view. For some of you this might seem basic and it is, for others this might be a blind spot in your work. No worries, e-mail (or phone) me directly and we can work through whatever block you might be wrestling.

Check out this three part video on Youtube about photographer Jeff Mermelstein, view the videos in sequence as follow:

First: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXcm35m50Y&p=2CC3565073A8A340&playnext=1&index=1

Second: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vhWLEBimLg&feature=related

Third: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdE9yU5IM0&feature=related

Its an exciting time of new beginnings and fresh starts....lets roll.