Author Archives: Abbey Adkison
Metrography: “I want to be part of a new way of looking at the world”
Behind the Prizes: Swan Song
Rick Gershon and MediaStorm did not set out to make a feature length piece when they went to Houston. Gershon was there to shoot client work for Neighborhood Centers, but then he met the Greer family. Marilyn Greer, the 58-year-old matriarch of the family, had recently been diagnosed with dementia. Gershon recognized the opportunity to turn a shorter client piece into a longer story, Swan Song, which documents the struggle of two young daughters who have to make hard choices in the face of their mother’s debilitating disorder. (more…)
Learning to photograph New York City
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Covering Protest in Ferguson: “I didn’t expect it to feel like war.”
Salima Koroma didn’t think her first first out-of-state assignment would be the historic protests over the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. She’s been producing video for Time’s online video team for just about two months, and last week they bought her a one-way ticket to Ferguson, Missouri.
Before starting at Time, she graduated from the documentary program at the Columbia University Journalism School, where she produced her own documentary, Bad Rap, and was a producer for NowThisNews. Columbia Visuals talked to Koroma about her experience producing video from Ferguson.
Covering Protest in Ferguson: “These are people, not sound bites.”
Brent McDonald is a senior video journalist with the New York Times. He produced “Standoff in Ferguson,” a three-minute video for the Times that was published on August 14th, in the midst of protests over the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
McDonald has been producing video for over ten years, and has been with the Times since 2005. Columbia Visuals spoke with him by phone from Ferguson, Missouri, on August 15th. He told us about the mood there and gave us some details on his production methods. (more…)
Covering Protest in Ferguson: “they’re not fooling around down here”
Holiday Gifts for Visual Journalists
Portfolio Reviews
Surviving a Portfolio Review
If you’ve never attended a portfolio review, it can seem daunting. It’s tough to show your work to an editor, let alone a room full of them. Asking for feedback isn’t easy, but the insights you get can be invaluable. So grab our list of portfolio reviews, find one near you and get your work together! Survive your first review with these handy tips. (more…)
Talk to us! #AskCV
Today’s Follow Friday post is a little different because the only suggestion we’re making is for you to follow –well, us.
We hope our posts so far has been helpful and we have more great stories lined up. We’re excited to work on a product that helps us all make better visuals and we want your voice in the discussion!
Follow us on Twitter, @ColumbiaVisuals, and tweet at us with your suggestions for stories, people producing work you’d like to know more about and things that stump you in this industry. Community is vital in producing quality work, and we think your thoughts matter. Let us know what you’d like to learn and we’ll add it to our suggestion box.
See you there! #askCV
AudioVision: Journalism + Instagram
When Southern California Public Radio began engaging their listeners’ eyes as well as their ears, they wanted to bring some fresh perspective to something a lot of people do every day: taking photos with a smartphone.
This week, three Instagrammers who share what they’re shooting when they’re on assignment. Live vicariously through:
Andrea Bruce. A member of NOOR, frequently on assignment for the New York Times. Latest shots are from Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
David Yoder. A National Geographic shooter, not all of Yoder’s Instagram posts are taken with just an iPhone, but it’s fun to see what he’s shooting when he’s in the field.
David Guttenfelder. Associated Press chief Asia photographer, currently shooting from North Korea.
Helpful tweets:
PBS MediaShift tweets articles from their own blog and other sources on the changes happening in digital media. It’s a great source of information on where and how our work fits in journalism today.
DuckRabbit tweets from the DuckRabbit blog, a production company that spotlights photographers, and gives advice to the visual community.
NPPA. If you don’t follow the National Press Photographers Association, you should. It’s a great resource for legal information and inspiring image makers.
Today we give you three photojournalists who work internationally and promote their stories through Instagram. Their mobile photography is a mix of personal work and journalism. Check out Ivan Kashinksy, Lynsey Addario, and Michael Christopher Brown.
Three places on Twitter to find tips on making your visual work stronger: Raw File, MediaStorm, and Sombra Projects.