“This fire leapt clear across two bays, hurdling at one point more than 3km of open water as if it was not even there. No one had ever seen that before.”
Snow Fall, Meet Firestorm
If you haven’t checked it out yet—and I hope you have—The Guardian’s Firestorm, a Snow Fall-esque interactive long-form multimedia piece came out last month and it’s completely stunning.
From Poynter’s story on the teamwork required to put it together:
“I think you have to capture people’s hearts,” Francesca Panetta, special projects editor of interactive storytelling projects, said in a phone interview. “As with all kinds of storytelling, you can’t lose sight of that need to connect and touch people, whether it’s writing or radio or a complicated interactive.”
Firestorm is remarkable for a number of reasons, including the stellar video images and the subtle way that looping video is used behind the written story. The integration between words and video is handled with such finesse that the one doesn’t distract from the other.
“We’re very happy with the subtlety,” Panetta said.
The chapter navigation uses clear images and concise icons and labels, ensuring it’s always clear where you are in the story.
A project like Firestorm or The New York Times’ Pulitzer-winning interactive,Snow Fall, demands considerable resources. Twenty-three people are credited for Firestorm, which was three months in the making — actually a speedy turnaround for a project of this scale.
Many newsrooms don’t have that level of resources, of course. But they can still learn from The Guardian’s process and the project’s experiments with layered storytelling — and figure out ways to do something similar on a smaller scale.
Keep reading for key takeaways from the project.
FJP: I’ve been hearing people favor this one to Snow Fall but perhaps that’s because the story itself (which is incredibly moving) lends itself to a slightly more poignant interactive than Snow Fall…but both are fantastic. —Jihii
Bonus: E-book version of the story, which you can buy here, along with other Guardian shorts.
Full Video: “God’s Ivory”
This is the full 14-minute version of “God’s Ivory,” a film by Reportage by Getty Images that examines the illegal ivory trade and the religious devotion that fuels it. Filmmaker Andrew Hida collaborated with photographer Brent Stirton and writer Bryan Christy to elaborate on the award-winning report the pair originally made for National Geographic in 2012. See more from this feature in the latest issue of Reportage’s online magazine.
The video is also viewable on our YouTube account.
Searing, important work here. Hard to watch, but harder to ignore.
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 6 to 10 pm
Exhibit runs through May 31, 2013
An IPC Visual Lab exhibit curated by award-winning Miami Herald photojournalist Carl Juste. View an eclectic collection of works by professional photojournalists Carl Juste, CW Griffin, Charlie Trainor, Andrew Kaufman. And, their advanced lab students: Jenny Babot Romney, Rubyann Smith Hernandez, Nanci Thomas, Zeus Shama, Jennifer Kay, and Ethan Britton. DJ ONEWAY will be spinning the tunes. Free.
ACND Gallery of Art
at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame Prep4949 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL
33137
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 6 to 10 pm
Exhibit runs through May 31, 2013
An IPC Visual Lab exhibit curated by award-winning Miami Herald photojournalist Carl Juste. View an eclectic collection of works by professional photojournalists Carl Juste, CW Griffin, Charlie Trainor, Andrew Kaufman. And, their advanced lab students: Jenny Babot Romney, Rubyann Smith Hernandez, Nanci Thomas, Zeus Shama, Jennifer Kay, and Ethan Britton. DJ ONEWAY will be spinning the tunes. Free.
ACND Gallery of Art
at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame Prep
4949 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL
33137
Miami, Florida on Flickr.
Little Haiti storefront.
I interviewed Baryshnikov last year about his dance photography - really fascinating to see him paired with @benlowy to talk about photography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Reportage photographer Benjamin Lowy talk photography in the latest episode of Mark Seliger’s “Capture” series.
Miami, Florida on Flickr.
The Leica X2 Edition Paul Smith, spotted in the wild. Cooler by a mile.
(“The wild” = Leica Akademie compact camera workshop at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden on Sunday.)
tedx:
I think people don’t accept imperfection that well. They gawk at it; they stare at it — because it’s curious to them. It’s a shame because there’s so much beauty out there besides beauty.
— One of the subjects of photographer Matt Hoyle’s portraits shares his thoughts on beauty during the photographer’s talk at TEDxDubai.
Above: A selection of portraits from TEDxDubai speaker Matt Hoyle’s collection, Winter Swimmers. In his talk, “Perfect imperfection,” Matt describes his fascination with presenting the subjects of his portraits as they really are — flawed, interesting, imperfect — rather than trying to obtain the perfect ideal of beauty that we search for when choosing our Facebook profile pictures.
Wabi Sabi: There’s so much beauty out there besides beauty, so much beauty in the imperfection.
Miami, Florida on Flickr.
Selections from Big Picture return for Art Basel weekend in Miami at Multitude Art Gallery, 5570 NE 4th Ave (Little Haiti).
day36 on Flickr.
It’s Art Basel weekend in Miami! Make some time for local artists - the Miami Independent Thinkers has curated an exhibition of local talent at The Armory Studios in Wynwood. Details here: ow.ly/fJiJv
Lamont Safford. NE 82nd st and 2nd Avenue. Miami, Florida
Driving back from Romney’s campaign office, the light was dying but beautiful and it felt like a waste to be in the car, so when I saw a guy limping in line with the last ray of sun, I caught up to him, but the light was already gone. He said “It’s Ok, there you have the headlights, let’s use them”. I asked him how come he thought of it and he said he’d done many things in his life, and he knelt down. I knew the answer by now but asked anyway if he could vote. “No, I have a record… police are very strict here. We have a saying: Come to Florida on vacation, leave it on probation”.Alessandra Sanguinetti
The Lighthouse and The Whaler: This is an Adventure.
My Friday night soundtrack to getting my @MiamiThinkers Basel submission together. As someone I know recently said, “I’m sleeping now. It’s going to be a busy Basel.”
(Source: itssuperefffective)
Christopher. Washington Avenue, Miami, Florida
Alessandra Sanguinetti
So I missed the giant eyeball washing ashore AND postcardsfromamerica while I was on vacation. Only in Florida, claro.
Also, didn’t you kind of expect this guy to be clutching a can of something other than Starbucks? #pleasedon’teatmyface
Charles Dharapak Honored in “Eyes of History” Exhibit
Associated Press photographer Charles Dharapak, currently embed in the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, was named the White House News Photographers Association’s 2012 Photographer of the Year. Among the 40-image portfolio submitted, featuring images of his protective pool service with the Obama White House, a selection of the images are on display in the Newseum’s “Eyes of History” exhibit. If you can’t make it to Washington for the exhibit, see the photos here.
The Daily Beast spoke to Dharapak about his imagery’s chances of swaying polarized voters in the 2012 presidential campaign.
