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,…
On my last day in Mexico, my roommate, comrade and partner in mischief Ana Manzano and I headed to the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan to see the pyramids. We had a fantastic bus ride due to our drivers insatiable love of 80′s/90′s pop ballads and we sung our way in and out of the city….
Mexico City is one of the most visually rich places I have ever been to. While I was riding the bus, I seriously had to stop myself from motor driving [holding the shutter on my camera down continuously] as I watched the most amazing images pass by the bus windows. Here are some of my…
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…
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