http://bobsacha.com my visual world> welcome to it Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:17:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We do a lot of very serious stories at work so it was fun to find something lighter during the first MediaStorm workshop in NYC. The assignment was "Times Square." The biggest thing I learned is that working with pros like Reuters Senior Photographer Lucy Nicholson and Reuters Head of Visual ... http://bobsacha.com/2008/06/29/seriously/ My work as multimedia producer and editor on Bearing Witness was awarded the top prize in the Multimedia- Photo/Video at the new New York Photo Awards. It's a huge thrill for me as Bearing Witness was my first MediaStorm project. http://bobsacha.com/2008/05/18/a-winner/ 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 ... http://bobsacha.com/2008/03/17/five-years-ago/ I was out of the country for my great friend Ed Kashi's birthday so instead I made him a little film using only my Canon Powershot S3 point-n-shoot camera. http://bobsacha.com/2007/12/08/unblinking-eye/ Spent the last two weeks in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico teaching a pair of workshops for National Geographic Expeditions. I was blessed with two amazing groups of students, as well as two great co-teachers: Raul Touzon and Sarah Meghan Lee. The first week I filled in for National ... http://bobsacha.com/2007/11/19/on-assignment-san-miguel-de-allende-mexico/ UPDATE: MSNBC has purchased "the soldier" and is running it on their front page in time for the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war. See it here. The Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshop, now in its 20th year, is one of the best in America for photojournalism. Every ... http://bobsacha.com/2007/11/01/barnstorm-xx-the-soldier/ Tuesday I start leading a graduate seminar at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in the photojournalism/documentary photography graduate program. I'm excited because the students I've met thus far have been anxious and ready to learn. I will say they're quick: Interesting how they automatically re-enacted the famous opening shot from ... http://bobsacha.com/2007/09/30/quicker/ I used to do a lot of portraits when I started working for magazines in NYC and I remembered those days when I did a fun portrait a while back of Professor E.O.Wilson. He's the Mick Jagger of Science, often referred to as "Darwin's Natural Heir" and a genius. ... http://bobsacha.com/2007/09/12/rock-star/ I've had a great summer travelling and teaching. I wanted to share a bit of what the workshop experience is like for me. This workshop, The Spirit of People, was held at the Tuscany Photo Workshops in August 2007. http://bobsacha.com/2007/09/04/my-photo-workshop-in-tuscany/ NYTimes staffer Nicole Bengiveno headed down to Atlanta to do a story on the home foreclosure trauma,where home foreclosures are up 75% over the prevoius month. Her excellent work ended up as a picture page in today's paper. She wrote the text too. But if you head over to the NYTimes ... http://bobsacha.com/2007/09/02/picture-page-vs-audio-slideshow/