MediaStorm's BLOODLINE: Aids and Family, by Kristen Ashburn, has received First Place - Team Video in the NPPA's monthly multimedia competition for December 2006. Visit the NPPA's December 2006 Winners Gallery to see all the winning entries.
401 Projects presents a roundtable discussion with: Laurie Garret, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Author Maryanne Golon, Photo Editor, Time Magazine Leigh Blake, President and Founder, Keep A Child Alive Since AIDS first exploded into the public consciousness twenty-five years ago, photography has offered the world its most visceral glimpse of the disease's human toll. Have viewers been moved to action or developed an immunity to the tragedy the images depict? How can photographers, and the media alike, navigate their way between impact and overload? Set to the backdrop of Kristen Ashburn's, Bloodline: AIDS & Family exhibition, these issues, and more, will be discussed. Photographers, editors, writers, and leaders in the non-profit sector will explore, through conversation and visual projections, photography's reaction to the disease, past, present and future. See Kristen Ashburn's BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family project on MediaStorm. Chris Anderson of the T.E.D. Conference will moderate the evening. 7:30 PM Tuesday, December…
BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family by Kristen Ashburn BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family is Kristen Ashburn's intimate look at the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Her images remind us how tenuous our connection is to each other. In doing so, they show that what matters most is the care extended to those in need. Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi Iraqi Kurdistan is an expansive look into the lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. These images provide an alternative perspective on a changing culture, one different from the discord that dominates so much media coverage of the region.
MediaStorm worked with award-winning Los Angeles Times Photojournalist Gail Fisher to produce a four-part multimedia series entitled Blighted Homeland for the newspaper's website. Excerpt from latimes.com: From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for America's atomic arsenal. Navajos inhaled radioactive dust, drank contaminated water and built homes using rock from the mines and mills. Many of the dangers persist to this day. This four-part series examines the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation.
MSNBC.com published Ed Kashi and MediaStorm's Iraqi Kurdistan project on Tuesday. Iraqi Kurdistan is a timely, in-depth look into the daily lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq. Thousands of Kashi’s images are presented in an innovative, flipbook-style animation. MSNBC.com won exclusive rights to publish the project via a private online auction conducted at mediastorm.org. Participants included news, lifestyle and arts publications from around the world. Read more about the Iraqi Kurdistan project in Photo District News Online.