Alexia Foundation Student Winner to Receive MediaStorm Internship

The Alexia Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2012 Alexia Foundation competition first place student winner will receive an internship at MediaStorm, an award-winning Brooklyn-based multimedia production house that specializes in working with some of the world’s top photojournalists, visual storytellers, interactive designers and global organizations. As part of the grand prize, the student winner will receive a $15,000 grant to fund the internship. In addition, the student will also get a grant of $1,000 to complete the proposed visual story that earned the prize. Finally, an additional $500 will be awarded to the sponsoring academic institution. The second place student winner will receive a scholarship to a Momenta Photo Workshop. The first place student will be given the opportunity to develop his or her multimedia story-telling skills as a part of a team that has produced EMMY-winning visual journalism for media companies since its inception in 2005, and that regularly…

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Job Openings: Digital Media at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is excited to announce new job openings in Digital Media. This dynamic department of 40 are responsible for everything from audio, video, interactive media design and production, to electronic publications, digital assets, and collection information. The department supports and develops all public facing technologies, and is responsible for the Met’s website, presence, and participation in the online environment. Job openings are available for the following positions: Media Producer Media Production Coordinator Senior Web Developer Media Technology Developer Digital Media at the Met is looking for fresh, innovative, and talented professionals who are ready to expand their horizons in the world of art, culture and digital media. Learn more about the department here.

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Surviving the Peace for MAG

MediaStorm's latest release is a film created for the humanitarian organization MAG (Mines Advisory Group). MediaStorm was commissioned by MAG to create a documentary that profiled their work, but more importantly created a strong, compelling case for the problem they are trying to solve and the impact it has on the local population. Our goal in this project was to take the viewer on a journey through the lives of Laotians personally affected by unexploded bombs, showing the physical and psychological turmoil they go through on a daily basis, creating a deep sense of care and responsibility in the viewer and ultimately a desire to take action. Through character driven narrative we were able to create an intimacy with those affected by the problem and then through that narrative we were able to tell the story of the work MAG does, giving it a sense of validity and urgency. We used a…

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Read more about the article Final Push: Seamus Murphy’s ‘A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan’ on Kickstarter

Final Push: Seamus Murphy’s ‘A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan’ on Kickstarter

Only a few days to go before MediaStorm's 'A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan' Kickstarter campaign officially ends! Please take a look today and consider supporting this important project! We are half way there towards meeting our fundraising goal of $10,000, and we need your help to make the final push! Please donate here on Kickstarter, and help us spread the word! A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is a collaborative documentary film based on the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy, who has spent over 15 years recording unexpected stories of struggle, survival and hope. Seamus' mission is to promote an understanding of this mysterious, complex and fascinating culture. In Seamus' words: Afghanistan’s recent history is a roller-coaster of foreign involvement and abandonment, resulting in a global crisis the world continues to struggles with today. The country was granted hero-status by the West when it resisted the Soviet invasion. But the vicious civil war that followed the Soviet…

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Tim Hetherington Grant

October 15 is the deadline for the Tim Hetherington Photography Grant, a World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch initiative to honor Tim's life and career as a filmmaker and photographer. Tim Hetherington was killed when a group of journalists came under fire during fighting between rebels and General Gaddafi’s forces in Misrata, Libya in April 2011. The annual grant, worth € 20.000 ($27,000), will be awarded to a photographer to complete an existing project on a human rights theme. In reviewing the applications, the judges will look for the qualities that defined Tim’s career: work that operates on multiple platforms and in a variety of formats; that crosses boundaries between breaking news and longer-term investigation; and that demonstrates a consistent moral commitment to the lives and stories of the photographic subjects. The application process is open to all professional photographers who have participated in a World Press Photo competition between 2008 and 2011. The…

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