World Press Photo interviewed the 2008 winning photographers about their images, and has posted the interviews on their site. You can hear Tim Hetherington discuss his World Press Photo of the Year, listen to Platon speak about photographing Putin, and check out over 20 additional interviews. The 2007 Interviews are also online if you missed them last year.
If you're in NYC, take some time this weekend to head over to DUMBO for the inaugural New York Photo Festival. You can see the schedule of events, check out the nominees for the New York Photo Awards (winners to be announced tomorrow night), and check out the exhibition map.
We are proud to announce that MediaStorm has won the prestigious 2008 Webby Award in the News and Politics: Individual Episode category for Brenda Ann Kenneally's Finding the Way Home. MediaStorm also produced Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster, which won in the Charitable Organizations Nonprofit category. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide.
The LA Times recently launched a new multimedia feature: I C U: Los Angeles Connections, exploring the "missed connections" section of Craigslist. Updated weekly with new stories, video-journalist Katy Newton looks into stories behind the postings. If you're in the LA area and looking for singles, don't miss the map- you can see where the concentrations of singles are, by both gender and age. This is a pretty great use of multimedia to explore community connections, worth checking out.
The May issue of The Digital Journalist is now online. This month features a slideshow from the four photographers- Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of The Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek- who were killed over Laos in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down by North Vietnamese gunfire. The remains of the four were recently interred in the new Newseum in Washington, D.C. If you don't have time to read anything else on the site this month, definitely check out the exceptional work of these four men.