MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop
The MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop in the Santa Cruz Mountains is an intensive, hands-on experience in documentary filmmaking and interactive storytelling.
The primary goal of the workshop is to create an intimate, character-driven documentary with supporting interactive experiences powered by the MediaStorm Platform.
Participants will work directly with the MediaStorm team in the field, in the editing suite and via online sessions in a collaborative, educational environment.
Excerpts from Past Films
Who Should Apply
This is a workshop for seasoned storytellers who have professional experience and are looking to further expand their storytelling capabilities.
Participants will be working at a fast-paced and professional level, moving from story concept to a completed story.
The goal of the workshop is to collaborate with those who have expert skills in specific areas in order to create the best possible project.
Applicants must also be able to work with others in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, and be willing to fulfill an assigned role.
Enrollment is limited. Teams are small with 2-5 participants and one or two observers at most.
“I applied for MediaStorm wanting to round out my experience as a reporter, but what I gained was so much more. I was immersed into the world of filmmaking. This was an experience I'll never forget. Not only did I learn how to be a filmmaker, but I gained lifelong friends and was able to impact the life of our subject. All our lives were changed.”
— Marian Liu, Editor on Remember These Days
Workshop Participant Roles
Participants will focus primarily on reporting or editing, but will collaborate extensively and learn aspects of each skill during the workshop. Specific roles for the workshop include:
Visual Storyteller: Cinematographer and/or Still Photographer
Workshop participants who gather original material in the field using still photography, audio and video.
Audio Producer
Gather audio in the field in partnership with the visual storytellers.
Producer: Interview & Logistics
Workshop participants who interview the subject, organize the coverage logistics and are responsible for communicating with the subject.
Editor: Post Production
Workshop participants who assist MediaStorm editors in the post-production of a story. Editors will learn the MediaStorm post-production workflow methodology.
XR
Workshop participants who gather material in the field for distribution in immersive augmented and virtual reality experiences.
Motion Graphics
Workshop participants who create the motion graphics package including titles, credits and cinematic experiences.
Interactive Designer
Workshop participants who produce related interactive experiences using the MediaStorm Platform and/or custom code.
Observer
Workshop participants who have access to both the reporting and editing processes, but are not required to engage in hands-on work.
Documentarian
Workshop participants who will document the behind-the-scenes workshop experience and conduct participant interviews using stills and video for use in supplemental and educational features.
Admission Fee
Tuition is $3,500.
The tuition fee covers pre planning meetings, a day of storytelling and toolset training, 7 days in person reporting and multiple online post production sessions.
The in-person portion of the workshop takes place in the Santa Cruz Mountains at MediaStorm’s headquarters in Los Gatos, CA.
Participants are responsible for their transportation, lodging and meals. If you are accepted and need to cancel, no refunds will be issued, but we will work with you to secure a spot in a future workshop.
The in-person portion of the workshop takes place in the Santa Cruz Mountains at MediaStorm’s headquarters in Los Gatos, CA.
Participants are responsible for their transportation, lodging and meals. If you are accepted and need to cancel, no refunds will be issued, but we will work with you to secure a spot in a future workshop.
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Dates and Location
The Santa Cruz Mountain workshop will take place in person in Los Gatos, CA. Pre and post workshop experiences will take place via online video conference.
Upcoming workshops:
Time
The pre and post virtual workshop sessions will start at 9am PST and end at 5pm PST with an hour for lunch. The in-person experiences in Los Gatos, CA will start early and end late.
Examples of Past Workshop Projects
Past Participants
Past participants have included a wide range of talented storytellers from all over the world.
“On the first day of the MediaStorm workshop I understood how much was lacking in my work, by the last day I understood how much was possible.”
— Michele Asselin, Photography and Video on Close to Home
“After the workshop, there seems like there are no limitations. I am able to reach out to people and tell stories in a way I have never done before.”
— Espen Rasmussen, Photography and Video on The Amazing Amy
“These were the seven days that shook my world. Working with MediaStorm was perhaps the most poignant and meaningful learning experience I have ever gained.”
— Gabriela Bulisova, Photography and Video on Nine Digits
“I think I summed it up best to my friends when they asked me how the workshop went, "It took a few days out of my life, but it added many years to my career.”
— Benjamin Norman, Video, Audio and Additional Interviews on Mr. Blues
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ore than 100 storytellers have participated in the MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop. Here are just a few:
MediaStorm Staff
The MediaStorm staff is dedicated to the team for the entire in-person workshop, and instructs and directs during the pre-planning, story-gathering and post-production phases of the project.
What You Will Learn
This workshop is designed to replicate intense and sometimes difficult reporting and editing situations. You will likely learn to make significant changes in your existing methods, from rethinking and refining your audio/visual gathering techniques to streamlining your post-production workflow and organization. Along the way, you will learn how to incorporate all of these techniques into finding and crafting well-told, compelling stories. Specific areas of focus will include:
Narrative Storytelling
- Developing the best approach for creating effective documentary stories
- Pre-production planning, finding the story's focus and execution of those ideas and techniques
Reporting Approach
- Using the best tools to get the story
- When to use a still camera, when to use video
- How to ask questions and get to the heart of the story
Post Production
- Establishing a strong post-production environment
- Efficient editing techniques
- Advanced Adobe Premiere techniques
Teamwork
- Getting the most out of the collaborative process
- Common issues and how to resolve them
Past Participants reflections on what they learned:
“It was an amazing privilege to be a part of a professional experience that was dominated by a generosity of spirit the likes of which I have rarely experienced. Everyone worked together to make the story a success. There was no ego, no territory, just a desire to tell the best story possible.”
— Maria Finitzo, Interviews and Editing on Close to Home
“More than anything else the workshop reminded me that good team work is priceless. Each participant had different skills and when brought together under the leadership of the MediaStorm players, the result was exhilarating. Watching our project on the final night, the quote; "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," kept ringing in my ears.”
— Frederic Menou, Video and Photography on Remember These Days
“Not only was it a great chance to learn from the guys at MediaStorm but also from my teammates and fellow workshop participants. We had a diverse group and everyone brought different skills to the table. In the end, we have a product that I think we are all proud of and everyone went home with new skills. Also, it really is a lot of fun.”
— Galen Clarke, Interview, and Video and Photography on Remember These Days
“The workshop is hands-on and intense and was, for me, hugely rewarding. Not only did I gain new technical skills that I will now refine and use but l also came away with a renewed sense of wonder at the potential of documentary. The constant interaction and exchange with teammates made the workshop an unforgettable experience and one that has definitely changed the way I see.”
— Simon Schorno, Interview on Broken Lines
“The workshop delivered exactly what I need for my work as a multimedia editor: a solid foundation on which to build my organization's multimedia growth.”
— Melissa Pracht, Audio & Editing on The Art of Attraction
”At MediaStorm the story is always at the center of everything, and they really want to share all their secrets. Any technique applied to the piece, being about sequencing, about workflow or about building the narrative, always happened with explanation and open-minded discussions. It was intense, hard work and long nights. But also hilarious, mind-blowing and ecstatic. I had a blast!”
— Christian Als, Video on Voice
”I hadn't thought about story structure in such a rigorous way until this workshop. What I learned about editing and pacing will change the way I edit from now on.”
— Uma Sanghvi, Story on Hold Out
Story Subject Matter
You will be assigned to a team before the workshop and will collaborate with MediaStorm to work out logistics and work to finalize a story idea before the workshop begins. Participants are encouraged to pitch their own story ideas. Participants need to be flexible as stories can change as happens in all real life reporting experiences.
Past Participants thoughts on the story selection process:
“In many ways, the experience started several weeks before we arrived. My team members and I spent quite a few nights searching for the best potential stories, subjects and issues. We contacted potential subjects directly, discussed with other team members what's doable and what aspects of the potential stories are the most promising. It was a fascinating experience that set this workshop apart from others.”
— Marcin Szczepanski, Video and Photography on The American-Made Benny
“It was magnificent to rediscover that people let you enter their life and share their story with you. It was wonderful to know that you not only documented a story, but helped your subject change her life as well. You become part of that life-changing moment and part of a big family. How awesome is that?!”
— Laurentiu Diaconu-Colintineanu, Photography, audio and video on Exodus
“For me, the biggest take away from the MediaStorm Workshop was feeling a renewed charge to do my work better so the stories I am telling get the justice they deserve. To be entrusted with a story so personal, the responsibility was quite humbling. I left the workshop inspired and thankful that I am in a field where learning about other people's histories and perspectives is considered work - and also wishing I could be so productive every week of my life!”
— Leah Thompson, Photography, audio and video on Exodus
“The MediaStorm producers were extremely focused on helping our story become the best that it could be. They stressed that the story was not ours – it belonged to the subject.”
— Jillian Kitchener, Video and Photography, and Editor on Luv Shtick
Schedule
The schedule is subject to change but overall breaks into three stages:
Stage 1: Online Pre Planning and Training
We will have several online meetings before the in person reporting session to discuss our approach and story ideas. We will also have a full day of training via online video conference to share best practices.
Stage 2: In Person in Los Gatos, CA
We will start by meeting on Friday night for dinner, story discussion, gear review and logistics lock down. We will begin reporting on Saturday and break into post production mid week.
Stage 3: Online Post Production
It is highly unlikely that we will have a finished project by the end of the in-person workshop. MediaStorm will work to complete the project and participants can join via online video conference for the post workshop editing sessions. Note that post production takes a significant amount of time and the more sessions you can join after the stage 2 in person reporting process the more you will learn.
Additional Benefits
Our goal is to create value for participants in addition to the training experience. To that end, we offer additional benefits including:
Online Training
All participants receive a free one-year all access subscription to our online training and our Post-production Workflow, a battle tested approach that you can apply to future projects.
Past Participants thoughts on MediaStorm’s workflow:
“The intense passion, dedication and respect for the creative multimedia process at MediaStorm is inspiring and downright contagious! The hierarchy of the steps I’ll follow in my future projects and when re-editing past projects has permanently shifted, it’s been a workflow revolution. Thank you!”
— Lauren Hermele, Video and Photography, and Editor on A Hundred Different Ways
“From the first hour, I was immersed in the realm of storytelling. I learned how to find a visually-interesting story as well as interview techniques that encourage your subject to open-up. I learned MediaStorm’s editing workflow including how to build a narrative from the ground up. I learned photo editing techniques, b-roll selection, and tips and tricks to bring audio, visuals and narrative into a cohesive piece.
I came into this workshop feeling both excited and nervous, but have left with new friends, skills and the inspiration to develop that next story.”
— Jillian Kitchener, Video and Photography, and Editor on Luv Shtick
The MediaStorm Platform
We will be reporting with an eye towards leveraging the power of the MediaStorm Platform. We will discuss the best way to report and package the story using film, slideshows, playlists, timelines and maps. Participants will get detailed training and an inside look at this innovative toolset.
Syndication Revenue Share
MediaStorm has an established syndication model for our projects. It's possible that some of the projects created during the workshop will have value in the marketplace beyond the educational experience.
If we license a project, the revenue generated will be shared with 50% split between the workshop participants and 50% to MediaStorm.
Copyright to the original media assets created at the workshop will remain with the participants. MediaStorm maintains copyright to the completed project. The projects will be published on MediaStorm’s digital channels. The final cinematic and interactive product will be available for embed on your personal websites via the MediaStorm Platform Player embed code.
Testimonials
“I came to MediaStorm thinking that I needed to learn technical stuff - how to use microphones and DSLRs and software and whatever new gizmo just fell from the sky.
I did learn a lot about those crucial tools, but the most important thing that happened during the week was that my love, and enthusiasm, for visual storytelling woke up and came out to play. I haven't been as excited about my work for years and years.
It's hard to believe until you see it, but the MediaStorm team really does want us all to get better, to tell real stories, thrive, succeed, smile like we’re in love. I think our whole team did just that: fall in love with storytelling all over again.
The MediaStorm folks expected and celebrated going into our complicated world to discover real people with meaningful stories, tenderly gathered and truthfully told. They also expected us to work really hard - and they matched our efforts by working every bit as hard. And that's the other thing about this workshop: you learn how important it is to be an effective, respectful member of a team. It was incredible to work not only with the big heads at MediaStorm, but also with talented storytellers from other parts of our world. It's simply fun to work alongside people whose work is so good it makes the hair on the back of your neck dance with joy.
This workshop is the antidote to the dumb-it-down journalism taking over too much of our profession. MediaStorm convinced me that we have to master our new tools because doing so makes us better, more sophisticated, more robust conduits for stories that matter.”
— Torsten Kjellstrand, Photography and Video on The Amazing Amy
“I don't think I have ever learned so much, worked so hard, sweated, laughed, cried, had so little sleep and lived a couple of lifetimes in only one week.
As I am writing this, the tears are coming because it was such and intense and amazing experience and now it's over... we are definitely not the same people we were before this course and we will never be same after this experience.
The week tested me in ways I did not think were possible. I learned more than I could even fathom and my passion for telling stories has only jumped a 1000 fold.
Training with MediaStorm has been one of the most grueling and rewarding experiences. I met so many amazing people from all walks of life and learned how to tell stories on a whole new level. I am definitely not the same person I was when I started the course. I'm happy to report, I really like this new me.”
— Natasha Elkington, Photography, audio and video on Exodus
“I have not been this inspired about photography and photojournalism in almost ten years.
They share all of their cutting-edge awareness of how photography, audio, and video can work together, and you leave them feeling that you can take your work to a whole different level.
I'm already thinking of things differently, trying to stretch beyond simply assembling still pictures to tell a story, and wondering how video and audio narrative might breathe some life into projects of my own.
Audio and video aren't just adaptive tools for surviving on the internet; they really can add layers of meaning and power to what we've been doing all these years as still photographers.
The workshops are an act of generosity, really, as you get the sense that MediaStorm really wants to elevate all of our work, and take us along with them into the future of photojournalism.”
— Mary Beth Meehan, Photography and Video on Close to Home
”So, so glad I spent the week in this workshop! I think this was an incredible and invaluable experience. Intense in all the good ways. It forced me to flex new muscles and grow.
I am not satisfied with just the still photograph in many of the stories I do and have been longing to understand the other components to the story making process. It's beyond overwhelming, but I now see how it's doable and I actually feel comfortable (after this week) with video...which is huge for me.
Something just clicked over the week.
Now all I am thinking about is multimedia and the possibilities of it in my work. I have so many ideas...so much in me. The week totally inspired this.
— Gillian Laub, Photography and Video, and Interviews on Take Care
”We are all facing a changing world. A world that is losing traditional journalism at a time when it may be needed more than ever before. The challenges facing any photographer, radio producer, print journalist or documentary makers are enormous.
It was eye-opening to see the MediaStorm approach. Find the story. Keep yourself organized. Work your butt off. Be compassionate. See the humanity in all people. The story is key and every element added must have a purpose.
MediaStorm is leading us into the next decade of journalism. These workshops and MediaStorm's commitment to sharing will ensure that we have producers ready to comment on our changing world, both its perils and its joys. Excellence, commitment, vision and hard work will never go out of style.”
— Steve Rowland, Audio, Additional Video, Audio and Stills, and Additional Music on A Tail of Identity
”Truly the best investment I have made this year.
Taking this timeout to totally focus on multimedia, discuss and debate topics, receive advice on story structure, themes and totally focusing on bringing myself to the next level has already helped me in my day-to-day life as a freelancer.
Learning from the MediaStorm team, I now truly appreciate the meaning of never accepting anything less than the highest standards either from others or myself. This opportunity is second to none.
I still see the course as a great investment, it has paid for itself – not just once, but many times over.”
— Morag Livingstone, Photography & Video on Beautiful Noise
”I work in radio but knew next to nothing about photography and video. No more! The MediaStorm workshop taught me how to take good pictures, and more importantly how to put it all together into one story. It was a chance to do the kind of work we so often wish we were doing: working without distractions, collaboratively with super talented people, all the while guided by dedicated, talented teachers.”
— Zachary Barr, Story, and Audio on Hold Out
“My love for visual storytelling was revived. This one week workshop was an incredible jolt to my system and I was reminded why I began a career in this field.
The team not only discussed their achievements but their failures as well. Showing us you learn a lot from your mistakes.
This is a company that truly loves to teach and wants everyone to improve. I learned such a great deal not only from my teachers but from my fellow participants as well. Everyone provided a unique point of view and brought their own skills to the team.”
— Claire Molloy, Cinematography on Coney Island Jay
Frequently Asked Questions
What gear will I need to bring?
We will be providing high-end Macintosh computers for the post-production workstations. Participants are required to bring their own photography, audio and video equipment. You should also bring your computer.
Each participant should also bring an external hard drive with at least 4TB of free space so they can take their individual assets home with them.
How are participants chosen?
Participants will be chosen based on the information provided in their applications. We are looking for people who will benefit the most from the training . Existing examples of high caliber projects are the most important criteria for selection.
How will teams be paired?
Once participants are chosen, we will be in touch with each individual to discuss team structure.
Do I have to apply for a specific role?
Applicants must select their primary choice of role. If you would consider a second and third choice role, please indicate that on the application form.
Where will participants stay?
Participants are responsible for their own room and board. We will provide local hotel and neighborhood information to accepted participants.
What if I need to cancel?
If you need to pull out of the workshop we’d like as much notice as possible. No refunds will be issued, but we will work with you to secure a spot in a future workshop.
Do you offer introductory workshops?
No. We feel there are already several terrific workshops offering introductory and intermediate instruction, so we are focusing exclusively on advanced training.
We do offer a One Day master classes and a more in depth Methodology master class.
Are there other workshops like this?
We think the MediaStorm Workshops are unique because of the small number of participants and the focus on advanced storytelling. With that said, there are a number of other great workshops to consider:
• NPPA's Advanced Storytelling Workshop
• Berkeley Advanced Media Institute
• DCTV
If you know other workshops that you think people should consider about please do share and we can add to this list.
“If you want to have a life-changing experience with the best multimedia professionals in the whole world, if you want to be terrified of going back to your job because you just discovered the most meaningful way to do journalism, if you want to learn more than in a week that you have, probably, in your entire career so far, then you'd better close this window and start completing the application form NOW!!!”
— Laurentiu Diaconu-Colintineanu, Photography, audio and video on Exodus
Upcoming Workshops
One Day Master Class
The MediaStorm One Day Master Class provides a general, yet precise, overview of documentary video and multimedia storytelling approaches. MediaStorm founder Brian Storm will walk you through specific examples as well as proven tips to improve your interviewing, editing and distribution techniques.
These are the upcoming one day workshop dates:
Methodology Master Class
The MediaStorm Methodology Master Class gives participants a chance to look inside the workings of a successful film and interactive production company, while taking them step-by-step through both the creative and business aspects of digital storytelling.
Founder Brian Storm will share MediaStorm’s workflow and storytelling methods and discuss essential elements of project organization and storytelling concepts.
You can attend the workshop in Los Gatos, CA in person or online via Zoom.
Upcoming date:
- December 12 - 14, 2025 - (Deadline to apply is Nov 1)
MediaStorm Storytelling Workshop Stories
A family is determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child – with a seemingly endless supply of love – is the blessing that holds a family together.
Virginia Gandee's brilliant red hair and dozen tattoos belie the reality of this 22-year-old's life. Inside her family's Staten Island trailer her caregiving goes far beyond the love she has for her daughter.
For Walter Backerman, seltzer is more than a drink. It’s the embodiment of his family. As a third generation seltzer man, he follows the same route as his grandfather. But after 90 years of business, Walter may be the last seltzer man.
Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City.
Benny is a “certified” garbologist. He collects what others throw away. Benny is also at war with his family. Here is a man sharing a house with his wife but living as a stranger. This is a household on the edge.
Jay Singer has been in love with one Brooklyn neighborhood his entire life. He grew up there, pined for it when he was forced to leave and returned when he couldn’t stand to be away. “Coney Island Jay” really loves Coney Island.
Tim Obert has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12. But regulations aimed at saving whales and salmon in California leave him struggling to find balance between his dream, his family’s needs and the industry he loves.
Kryssy Kocktail grew up in troubled family and, as an adult, followed the mythic path of joining the circus. Amid the lights and energy of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow, she has found something that she never dreamed would be hers.
One evening, David Sheets read a story about a new basketball arena proposed for his neighborhood. Then he realized the plans were drawn right over his house. Hold Out is the story of a few neighbors who haven't been very easily dislodged.
Joe Soll has spent half of his life searching for his birth parents, in the process he uncovered a mystery that’s haunted him for years.
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 to help other inmates rebuild their lives. Exodus is her story.
Additional Training Products
MediaStorm's award-winning team of producers and cinematographers lead online training videos with lessons learned from their experience producing films and training groups and organizations around the world.
Developed over seven years and more than 100 projects, our downloadable post-production workflow covers every phase of editing, from organizing assets through outputting final projects and archiving.
Available for iPad on iTunes, the MediaStorm Field Guide outlines fundamental concepts for gathering multimedia content in the field for documentary films.
MediaStorm Project Showcase
Once teetering on the brink of extinction, the Santa Catalina Island Fox made a dramatic recovery. Its resurgence marks one of the greatest conservation success stories in United States history.
In the shadow of Silicon Valley’s booming technology industry, a growing number of people remain out in the cold. Skyrocketing housing prices in America’s hub of innovation have pushed many onto the streets, straining policymakers to find solutions to a homelessness problem that impacts everyone in the community.
This page recognizing Zora J Murff for ICP’s 2023 Infinity Award for Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism features a film about his life, a slideshow of his projects and extra clips of his thoughts about his work and motivation.
Sebastião Salgado says "a good picture, a fantastic picture, you do in a fraction of a second, but to arrive to do this picture, you must put your life in there."
Esther Horvath has sent questions to the universe and she has received answers. She found her calling to tell visual stories that show the full research story behind our climate data.
See photographer Acacia Johnson’s growth from her earliest explorations of Alaskan landscapes to a National Geographic cover for a documentary project among indigenous people of the Arctic.
Sir Don McCullin never intended to become a photographer. He found it hard to believe he’d ever escape the poverty of North London. But a spur of the moment photograph launched McCullin into a career spanning 50 years in photography.
As the U.S. prepares for the final drawdown of soldiers from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Soledad O’Brien and MediaStorm take an intimate look at two veterans as they struggle with the transition from war to home.
Writer Zadie Smith pays homage to photographer Deana Lawson in the artist’s first Monograph for Aperture.
As a formerly incarcerated person, Michael struggled for work, and found purpose in being a husband, father, and activist. But 7 years since his release from prison, the cost of Michael’s activism is evident.
Benny is a “certified” garbologist. He collects what others throw away. Benny is also at war with his family. Here is a man sharing a house with his wife but living as a stranger. This is a household on the edge.
Photographer Amber Bracken recognized something deeper than a protest was afoot when hundreds of tribes gathered at the Standing Rock reservation in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
How does the death of a child change a parent? How does the death of a parent change a child? How do these moments change us as we develop and grow further away from who we were as children?
Maurice Berger–cultural historian, and columnist for the New York Times’ Race Stories–has spent his career studying and teaching racial literacy through visual literacy.
Japan’s Disposable Workers examines the country’s employment crisis: from suicide caused by overworking, to temporary workers forced by economics to live in internet cafes, and the elderly who wander a town in search of shelter and food.
Karl Ove Knausgaard is the celebrated author of a massive six-volume autobiography. But Knausgaard remains confused by the attention. This is a portrait of a man who has achieved massive success yet still considers himself unworthy.
Michael Thomasson has devoted his life to video games. It’s been his passion and his obsession for more than three decades. He owns over 11,000 unique game titles for more than 100 different systems.
A film about Michael Christopher Brown for the 2017 ICP Infinity Awards.
The Long Night, a feature film by Tim Matsui and MediaStorm, gives voice and meaning to the crisis of minors who are forced and coerced into the American sex trade.
Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth have a complicated relationship with the internet and have worked together to develop an artwork that explored some of the more difficult consequences of what it means to live with the internet.
In 1977, Robyn Davidson walked 1,700 miles across the Australian outback. National Geographic sent Rick Smolan to photograph her perilous journey—a trek that tested and transformed them, forming an immutable bond that continues to this day.
Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.
The American family farm gives way to a subdivision - a critical cultural shift across the U.S. Common Ground is a 27-year document of this transition, through the Cagwins and the Grabenhofers, two families who love the same plot of land.
For Walter Backerman, seltzer is more than a drink. It’s the embodiment of his family. As a third generation seltzer man, he follows the same route as his grandfather. But after 90 years of business, Walter may be the last seltzer man.
Larry Fink has spent over 40 years photographing jazz musicians, wealthy manhattanites, his neighbors, fashion models, and the celebrity elite. His archive is a thoughtful collection of American history, and Fink’s experience of it.
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s body of work “The Notion of Family” examines the impact of the steel industry and the health care system on the community and her family. Collaborating with her mother and grandmother, she uses her family as a lens to view the past, present and future of the town.
Tomas Van Houtryve wants there to be a permanent visual record of the dawn of the drone age, the period in American history when America started outsourcing their military to flying robots. In order to create this record, Van Houtryve sent his own drone into American skies.
Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in the magical town of Tiksi, Russia. This barren, arctic landscape influenced Arbugaeva in almost every aspect of her dreamlike photography.
Surviving the Peace: Laos takes an intimate look at the impact of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war in Laos and profiles the dangerous, yet life saving work, that MAG has undertaken in the country.
A family is determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child – with a seemingly endless supply of love – is the blessing that holds a family together.
Inspired by the photographs of the Farm Security Administration growing up, Lynn Johnson has spent nearly 35 years as a photojournalist working for LIFE, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and various foundations.
Resetting the Table takes a unique, personal look at the impact Starbucks’ Create Jobs for USA program has had on the American Mug & Stein pottery facility in East Liverpool, Ohio.
Hungry Horse captures the spirit of renewal, peace and serenity through stunning landscapes and intimate oral histories.
Using humor and a love of fantasy, "The Amazing Amy" Harlib connects with audiences through performing strenuous yoga-based contortion acts in New York City.
In many countries, girls as young as eight are forced into marriage by their families, culture and economic situation. This practice destroys their chance at education leading to tragic results.
Surreal and mysterious, North Korea was a black hole to outsiders wanting a glimpse of the country. That all changed in 2012, when AP photographer David Guttenfelder led the opening of the bureau's newest office inside the North Korea.
Virginia Gandee's brilliant red hair and dozen tattoos belie the reality of this 22-year-old's life. Inside her family's Staten Island trailer her caregiving goes far beyond the love she has for her daughter.
Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way.
In Rwanda, in 1994, Hutu militia committed a bloody genocide, murdering one million Tutsis. Many of the Tutsi women were spared, only to be held captive and repeatedly raped. Many became pregnant. Intended Consequences tells their stories.
To those who serve in the armed forces, what is the aftereffect of war? The Marlboro Marine is photographer Luis Sinco's portrait of Marine Corporal James Blake Miller, whom he met in Iraq. For Miller, coming home has been its own battle.
Zakouma National Park is one of the last places on earth where elephants still roam by the thousands. In a land where poachers will slaughter the huge animals for their tusks alone, it takes armed guards to keep them safe.
Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's dream to leave the poverty of life in Africa for the promised land of Europe. We walk in his shoes, as photojournalist Olivier Jobard accompanies Kingsley on his uncertain and perilous journey.
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