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World Press Photo winners announced

The winners of the World Press Photos of the Year award were announced today. Anthony Suau won the top honor with this photo from his story about home foreclosures in Cleveland.

Sadly though, as Gawker points out, he is currently seeking employment. Other winners include (ICP instructor) Jonathan Torgovnik, Pep Bonet, Chen Qinggan, and Walter Astrada, among many others.

As per usual (in my ever-so-humble opinion), some were fantastic, some were groundbreaking, some were “meh,” and a few were “and this is here…why?”. My personal “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me” moment is Roger Cremers’ story on people visiting the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau fitting into the “Arts and Entertainment” category. Altogether though, a very interesting collection of images that can be seen here as I’m sure my highly copyright infringing photo up top will be removed any second now. Enjoy!

matt

Helpful links from multimedia class with bob sacha

Interactive Narratives

Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling as practiced by online and print journalists from around the country and the world. Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in an environment that fosters interaction, discussion, and learning.

Radio Lab
Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, each hour-long show focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as “time” and “morality” in an accessible and light-hearted manner. Its audio production style is distinctive, often using rapid edits to construct an expository conversation. The credits are generally read by people who were interviewed or featured on the show, rather than by the hosts.

Radiolab is produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City. The show is nationally syndicated, and is also available as a podcast.

Transom
Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.

UNICEF Photo of the Year

UNICEF photo of the year award winner has been announced. I checked some of the other work from the finalists and honorable mentions. Worth a look; just click on the photo below.

Copyright: Alicer Smeets

Website do’s and dont’s

For those of you who are thinking of  launching a website or are in the process, should check out this article from PDN online. I found it very helpful:

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000807896

my favorite multimedia

I created a blog for my favorite multimedia peices from different sources which will be updated weekly.
http://mcandrea.wordpress.com

The 37th Frame- Celebrating the Best of Photojounalism

wwww.the37thframe.org
The 37th Frame is dedicated to bringing readers the best of the photojournalism on the internet. We will search the web sites of newspapers, magazine and the best independent photojournalists around the world and post links to the work.

Readers are encouraged to email us with suggestions to share with the rest of our community. We welcome comments and discussion on the posts.

The 37th Frame is a distributor (rather than a publisher) of third party material. We provide a summary and/or excerpts from work published on other sites and provide credit as well as links to the original published work as referenced.

_in the future we can contribute our long term projects to them
_in the mean time this is a great place to stop on the world wide web for inspiration
_in addition you can subscribe to their email newsletter.

Barack Obama win the elections 2008

 

11/04/2008 Harlem, New York, NY. Celebration of the victory of Barack Obama against Jon McCain in the American elections.

 

 

 

 

 

Following Joanne, a Mc Cain supporter

Johanna Vaccarella is waiting as her daughter Joanne is doing publicity for Mc Cain in Times Square.© Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain,Times Square. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne arguing about her political views with a passerby, Times Square.© Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain, Times Square. © Julie Glassberg

In the car, on the way to Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne doing publicity for Mc Cain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Publicity for Mc Cain, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Saturday November 1st. © Julie Glassberg

Waiting for the bus to go home in New Jersey. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne prays on the bus, on the way home to Englewood, New Jersey © Julie Glassberg

Joanne on the phone with another Mc Cain supporter © Julie Glassberg

Joanne on the phone with another Mc Cain supporter. He is telling her what he knows about the results. © Julie Glassberg

Joanne is on the phone with her friend Ron. Obama seems to be leading… © Julie Glassberg

10:45. Joanne still doesn’t want to watch the results.© Julie Glassberg

Protesting California’s Proposition 8

11/12/2008 New York, NY – Hundreds of supporters of gay marriage came out Wednesday evening to protest the passing of proposition 8 in California prohibiting such marriages. Protesters gathered outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints near Lincoln Center as leaders of the Mormon church had encouraged their congregants to support the passing of proposition 8. Photos by, Talya C. Arbisser

Posse Comitatus

November 11, 2008. 38th St. & 5th Avenue, New York City, NY – Parade route continues to move north along 5th Avenue. © Boots Levinson

November 11, 2008. 37th St. & 5th Avenue, New York City, NY – Parade route continues to move north along 5th Avenue. © Boots Levinson

November 11, 2008. 37th St. & 5th Avenue, New York City, NY – Parade route continues to move north along 5th Avenue. © Boots Levinson

ELATION 2008 – TIMES SQUARE AND HARLEM

THE REPUBS–DEWEY’S PUB on FIFTH AVENUE

 

November 4th, 2008. New York, NY. Obama supporters dance in the streets of Harlem after final election results are announced. Photo: Aliza Eliazarov

 

 

November 4th, 2008. Obama supporters await election results on 125th Street in Harlem. Photo: Aliza Eliazarov

 

 

November 4th, 2008. New York, NY. Giant screens in Times Square broadcast election results throughout the day. Photo: Aliza Eliazarov

 

November 4th, 2008. New York, NY. Obama supporter waits for election results on 125th St in Harlem. Photo: Aliza Eliazarov

 

people in a bar on the Lower East Side. NYC. Susanna Corniani

 

The night of elections. Time SQ NYC. Susanna Corniani

 

This lady was out of control ...because Obama is the new president of USA. Time SQ. Susanna Corniani

 

A person waching TV in a bar on the Lower East Side. Susanna Corniani

 

Time SQ

An Election Break

Eugene Smith, a butler at the White House from 1952-1986 reflects on the eight Presidential administrations he served under.

Everyone election pictures look truly amazing, it’s great to see that night from every angle and perspective. I found this article today, and the multimedia photo essay that accompianies it, and thought I would share it with all of you. It’s a very simple human interest story, but a touching one, and impeccably executed. The article is here (you should read it first), and the multimedia piece is here. Enjoy.

-Matt