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PHOTOSTORIES:
Photojournalism
provides an opportunity to bring to light stories that otherwise would
never have been told. The task of organizing and clarifying the situation
into a rectangular plane of a viewfinder is a almost magical undertaking.
The best journalistic photographs clarify the soul of a situation. Photographs
provide an opportunity to study in detail the temporary relationships
of elements within the frame. They abstract the reality into simple dimensions,
but allow to comprehend the greater story. A reportage, a photostory or
a photographic essay is an opportunity for a more in depth study of a
subject. That is my specialty.
It
was at the University of Arkansas that I started taking my first pictures
with a camera. I took Photojournalism I and II courses and during my last
semester I completed an internship at the "Northwest Arkansas Times."
I took on daily photo assignments, worked in the darkroom, looked over
AP wire photos and continued with my feature story. For several weeks
I photographed a man recovering from a traumatic brain injury. I wrote
the story to accompany the photos, laid out the page and the story run
on father's day 1993 with lead photo on the front page.
In
December 2001 I received my MA in Journalism from University of Missouri.
My Masters Project documented the rebuilding of the Asmara-Massawa railway
in Eritrea. I continue to pursue independent projects and take satisfaction
from every opportunity to show things that are not known or misunderstood.
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Eritrea
Running on Steam:
A forgotten by world country rebuilds a most valuable resource destroyed
in a war for independence- a railway line. A photo documentary about
this effort being undertaken by a small country in the Horn of Africa.
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Ultra
Super Hyper Kumbha Mela:
India's 2001 Maha Kumbha Mela was an event that fell half way between
the transcendental and the banal, catching many Hindu pilgrims between
the spiritual and the commercial. The spectacle, which plays itself
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Rat Temple:
The Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke, Rajastan, is the best place to
be a Rat. But room is limited as there are only 40,000 lucky creature
that live in this 500 year old site of worship.
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Tommy's
Turmoil:
Everyone
has something to say about AD/HD and Ritalin. Some people say its
genetic, some say in the US people are diagnosing more children with
attention disorder that before went overlooked. Does 15 Milligrams
of Ritalin controls Tommy's daily turmoil? |
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Personal
Stations of the Cross:
Members
of a Missouri Parish undertake
individual journeys
of struggle and eventual acceptance of their own downfalls. In each
photograph a participant relives a personal event that relates to
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Cuba:
Life under Embargo
A
photo assay about the failure of the US embargo and how the Cubans
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Arrancar
una Sonrisa:
Living
statues are one of the most popular street performers in a city
obsessed with street performers. No one really knows how the first
living statues arrived in Santiago, Chile, but Ricardo knows exactly
how he started. Enemployed and desparate, he began working as a
street performer on Christmas day and never looked back. (in Spanish)
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Sudan's
Hunger Machine:
The
history of hunger in Sudan is as old as its Civil War. In 1998 it
claimed the 300,000 lives. Despite many efforts by individuals and
NGOs the famine has become big and dependable business. From a farmer
in South Dakota, a Kenyan truck driver, to a Russian airplane pilots:
thousands of people make money on Sudan's yearly famine.
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Abkhasian
Rebellion:
The 1993 war between the Abkhasian separatists
and newly independent republic of Georgia has left the country in
ruins. Georgia struggles to come to terms with the rising crime,
open market and the loss of its territory to Islamic separatists.
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No
Shooting in Somaliland:
Not every part of Somalia is engulfed in war, famine and despair.
A self proclaimed republic of Somaliland in the North of the country
rises from the chaos of civil war and struggles to gain international
recognition.
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Step by Step:
Kenny
was a high school history teacher until his truck stopped on the
railway tracts in front of an oncoming train. Kenny suffered a traumatic
brain injury and could hardly move. With therapy at a Arkansas hospital
he is not only gaining physical strength but his will to live.
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Playing
War:
Civil War reenactments recreate the war experience as authentically
as possible, except for the bullets. Two cousins from St. Louis
and Joplin find each other on opposite sides of the conflict, dramatizing
the reality of their shared family history.
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Dogcatchers
of Santiago:
People of Santiago, Chile love their dogs so much that the homeless
dog population has swollen to two million. One of only two animal
control units in the city is responsible for disposing of the dogs
that are most sick or dangerous. At times their vehicles comes back
filled to the brim with dogs that have to die. |
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Kashmiri
Quagmire:
In March 2001 a rumor about the burning of a copy of Koran spurred
a riot in Srinigar. A photostory about this predictable spectacle
in an unpredictable situation. |
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Fashion &
things:
The world of High and Small fashion.
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