Spent the weekend in Madison at the IPPA-WNPA conference soaking up lots of New Glarus and amazing work from all over the world. Ami Vitale had great advice for starting photo stories and finding grants to do them, Dai Sugano made us all laugh with his methods of multimedia production, Lisa Krantz unveiled her deep…
I just finished recovering from the 3-day Camp Video Journalism workshop [and pulling my hair out watching the debates] with Robb Montgomery at the Chicago Sun-Times. It was the most “official” training I’ve had in video, minus my video installation classes at Columbia and the self training I’ve done at the paper. Basically, besides shooting,…
The past several days have been nothing short of complete chaos. After all of my story ideas fell through, I woke up at 6 a.m. on Tuesday and headed downtown to the Zocalo [central plaza] in search of a story. After two hours of wandering around and finding nothing, I headed toward the Metro feeling…
I’m sitting on the porch outside of my room at the hostel eating the most amazing sandwich from a street vendor and drinking orange soda out of a glass bottle. Any vegetarianism that was still in me has quickly faded away and I’m trying to process everything that has happened since my last post. Spent…
Spent much of the past 24 hours in transit, but I’ve finally made it to Mexico City! During a layover in Charlotte, I met a charming Scottish man and we spent a few hours wandering around the airport swapping stories. As I waited for my driver to pick me up, I sat on the pavement…
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