The Wider Image: New Reuters iPad App

Reuters has released a new interactive iPad app to bring its award-winning news photography to life. The Wider Image is an unprecedented news photography experience from Reuters. Created exclusively for the iPad, it gives users a new way to engage with news photography. With updated daily content, it aims to position imagery at the heart of the user experience and to realize the unique potential of photojournalism. The Wider Image includes more than 100 stories by Reuters photographers from across the world, and they'll be adding new stories daily. The app allows viewers to interact with image sequences, read expanded facts and quotes, get to know the people behind the images through photographer profiles and in-the-field witness commentary, and visually compare social, demographic and economic differences between story and user locations. Take a tour of the Wider Image app here... Reuters-MediaStorm Interactive Collaboration The Wider Image builds on two Emmy-nominated interactive news-photography…

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MediaStorm Speaking at FotoWeek EDU

Multimedia Storytelling @ MediaStorm with Brian Storm Saturday Nov. 17, 10am – 5pm, Goethe Institut FotoWeekEDU REGISTER NOW Join Brian Storm, Founder and Executive Producer of MediaStorm, to see how some of the top photojournalists have redefined their storytelling capabilities to include audio reporting and an eye towards publication in multiple media. Their work is capturing acclaim around the world in a time when readers' attention spans are running short. Storytelling opportunities continue to evolve as a result of technological innovations and an expanding media universe. The digital age is giving documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary new ways to tell stories. With this new ability, you can also exercise a greater level of authorship with your work. How can the long-form, in-depth visual storyteller satisfy both their journalistic and financial needs in this environment? Learn how to disseminate your work to create an impact on the subject, issue and hopefully society. Learn…

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Call for Entries: Sony World Photography Awards

Photo:Tobias Bräuning, Germany, Open Overall Winner, 2012 Sony World Photography Awards The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards is now open for entries in five categories. Through conducting a range of annual competitions, the Sony World Photography Awards aims to discover talent across diverse fields of photography, supporting photographers beyond just receiving their awards; featuring their work across the World Photography Organisation website and in international exhibitions, offering exposure through an annual marketing campaign and international media coverage, and publication inside the annual Sony World Photography Awards book. The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards includes more competitions and awards than ever before, with each category aimed at photographers of a different level: Open Competition - for amateurs and enthusiasts Professional Competition - for serious photographers with a true passion for the job Youth Award - for anyone under the age of 20 Moving Image Award - for those experimenting with moving image narrative…

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MediaStorm Receives Three FotoWeekDC Awards

We are honored to announce we have won three awards in the multimedia category of the 2012 FotoWeekDC International Awards Competition. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, produced with photographer Seamus Murphy of VII photo agency, received first place; Broken Lines, produced during our December 2011 Storytelling Workshop received second place; and Rite of Passage, produced with photographer Maggie Steber, received Honorable Mention. A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan 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. Broken LinesJoe 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. Rite of Passage When Madje’s dementia proved relentless, her daughter Maggie moved her life to care for her. Maggie documented the liberation from…

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