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Teaching Multimedia, part 2

bob sacha — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:08:32 +0000

Hannele Lahti is somehow able to get people to tell her the most amazing stories. She reported and shot this story as part of the week long MultiMedia Masterclass with me at the Maine Media Workshops in August 2010

A birthday brings Teisha Jones face to face with an important date in her family’s past.

Camera, Sound and editing by Hannele Lahti in a week in August 2010 as part of Bob Sacha’s Multimedia Master Class at the Maine Media Workshops.

digital dreamscape

bob sacha — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:15:22 +0000

This is an interactive portfolio, click on the arrows to cycle through the images (and my dreams).

Every Sunday I’m left as an internet widow by my partner, who writes the wildly popular website Gastropoda. So while she was ranting online about food and politics, I was posting pictures. The site was designed by Audrey Chen and Billie Mandle, making a site that reflected both my dreams and photography in an even cleaner and more clever mode than what I imagined.

Luz, a new photo agency

bob sacha — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:05:12 +0000

Grazia Neri Agency was the best European photo agency I worked with: they sold every story I sent them. So I was sad when they called it quits. But now there’s Luz, born from the ashes of Grazia Neri and with an eye toward new media also.

I’m also a big fan of it’s founders, especially Alberto Giuliani, an amazing young photographer. Great to be in such good company.

Poverty in the Face of Resource Wealth

bob sacha — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:14:06 +0000

I know what “transparency” is but mostly from my days as a photojournalist working with color slide film. So when the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) came to MediaStorm to create a multimedia piece explaining what they did, it took me a while to figure it out. In the process, I learned a lot more.

For this story, I had the pleasure of traveling to London. Berlin and Washington to interview 6 people that represented all sides of the issue. Fifty or more countries in the world are rich in resources: gold, silver & oil but more than half of their population lives below the poverty line. This projects looks at why.

Maybe the new paradigm is someone like me traveling with 2 HDV cameras, tripods and mic stands plus my laptop. In each country, I worked with a camera person (Kimberley Williams in Washington, DC, Karveh Shirdell in London and Bjorn Forster in Berlin. We used a single light for the interviews. I edited the transcripts and pictures and cut the piece.

Of course, none of this would be possible without all the amazing photographers bravely working in these countries.

Thanks to all for teaching me so much.

Do 1 Thing

bob sacha — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:39:37 +0000

Do 1 Thing is an initiative started by Najlah Fenny Hicks and Pim Van Hemmen to help homeless teens. Over 25,000 adolescents age out of the foster care system each year in the United States. 40% of these teens will become homeless.

On Valentine’s Day 2009 they organized a massive photoshoot at the Covenant House in several states. Here’s Shaniqua, one girl I met at Covenant House in New York City.

This is also my first very humbling attempt to create a soundtrack using garage band.

things as they are

bob sacha — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:19:03 +0000

A week ago, Mary Panzer, the photo curator, critic and author of the ICP Infinity Award winning book “Things As They Are” came to MediaStorm to write a story for the Wall Street Journal headlined ” Photojournalism for the Web Generation.” She mentioned my first two MediaStorm pieces: Reuters “Bearing Witness, Five Years of the Iraq War” and “One Man Brand,” the first MediaStorm workshops story I produced that was created by Lucy Nicholson and Jassim Ahmad from Reuters.

As I mentioned to a friend: “Sometimes you’re in the forest and aware of the trees but it takes someone special to describe what those trees actually look like.” Please share my revelation.

Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War

bob sacha — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:27:58 +0000

Hard to believe that five years ago we started a war with Iraq. Now, just before the anniversary I’ve finished my first piece for MediaStorm: Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War. It’s a co-production with Reuters, using stills, video and interviews of their journalists. None of the major characters in this story are Americans. All are seasoned journalists, many are locals and most understand Iraq and its people in a completely different fashion.

Click on the picture below to watch the 30 second trailer I cut:

Visit the full project> Reuters Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War.

Photographing a Rock Star..of Science!

bob sacha — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:30:17 +0000

I used to do a lot of portraits when I started working for magazines in NYC. One great recent portrait was Professor E.O.Wilson. He’s the Mick Jagger of Science, often referred to as “Charles Darwin’s Heir” and a genius. He is an amazing thinker, Pulitzer prize-winning author, the man who coined the term “biodiversity” and also a very gentle man. I made this image at the Darwin exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I always like to photograph people in their element. And yes, I used a flash;) Don’t you always use a flash with a rock star?

National Geographic Portfolio

bobsacha — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:13:59 +0000

Here’s a selection of the photography I published in National Georgraphic Magazine, on assignment for more than 20 years.

How fast time flies…

Thanks to Pamela Chen who wrote the music.