TIME.com received its first-ever EMMY nomination today for the Iconic Photo video series. In this series, I find the most famous photographs from major events, and ask the photographers who made the pictures (or curators who know the photos well) to explain how the photographs were made. In the process, we learn a little history, …
Devastating. That’s the adjective used most often to describe the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th. I have even used it in a script or two. And devastated is what I feel when I think of a five-year-old girl named Giovannie. Soon after the earthquake, Giovannie’s mother asked her to go fetch a can …
The semester is over, and I am proud to say that six teams have completed multi-platform reporting projects in my class at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. The teams told stories spanning subjects from a deal for New York doormen to failing city schools to Juilliard musicians earning money playing in the 42nd Street …
Another of the stories I shot in Haiti recently for the TIM! 100 issue of the magazine. After the Haiti earthquake in January, Rahul Singh and his GlobalMedic group dashed to the scene with a medical corps and water purification teams. The need for clean water continues. I followed the Haitian workers who help GlobalMedic …
The New York Times Lens Blog asked photographers — both amateur and professional — to capture a moment in time at precisely 15:00 GMT (11:00 a.m. ET) today. The idea, says the fabulous photojournalism blog, is to “create an international mosaic, an astonishingly varied gallery of images that are cemented together by the common element …
Here is the first of three stories I reported in Haiti for this week’s TIME 100 edition of the magazine. [vodpod id=Video.3511684&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D81836105001%26linkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.time.com%252Ftime%252Fvideo%252Fplayer%252F0%252C32068%252C75798783001_1981831%252C00.html%26playerID%3D42806370001%26domain%3Dembed%26dynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] At the lakeside village of Mandan Belize, Prophete Asseus looks out from his mud hut at the waters where, for decades, he has launched his boat and nets to eke out a life as …
A young boy who lives in a village of mud huts on the shore of Lake Azuei, about 20 miles east of Port-au-Prince, greets the “blon” with the camera after swimming in the lake.
Before I go to bed at night, I remind myself of my earthquake plan. I’ve arranged my clothes, shoes, flashlight and video camera in a convenient pile next to the bed. When the temblor wakes me, I’ll sweep the pile into my arms and rush to the courtyard, near the empty swimming pool. I’ll turn …