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MediaStorm Presents the 2015 ICP Infinity Awardee Films

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:May 1, 2015

MediaStorm is pleased to present a film series produced in collaboration with the International Center of Photography with support from Harbers Studios. Since 1985 ICP’s Infinity Awards have brought attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and identifying future luminaries. The 2015 Infinity Awards films serve as a portrait of some of the important contributors to photography today. Photojournalism: Tomas van Houtryve Tomas van Houtryve wants there to be a permanent visual record of the dawn of the drone age, the period in American history when America started outsourcing their military to flying robots. In order to create this record, Van Houtryve sent his own drone into American skies. Young Photographer: Evgenia Arbugaeva Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in the magical town of Tiksi, Russia. Located in the Arctic, the barren, white landscape influenced Arbugaeva in almost every aspect of her dreamlike photography. Art: Larry…

Applications Now Open for Cowbird Unheard Voices Grant

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:April 27, 2015

Storytelling platform Cowbird is on a mission to balance the media landscape by amplifying unheard, marginalized voices from around the world — in their own words, sounds and images.

The very first Cowbird Unheard Voices Grant is now accepting applications for journalists and community organizers through midnight, May 10th, 2015.

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#NowPlaying: Shiho Fukada and World Press Photo on Multimedia Week Podcast

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:April 6, 2015

Here are two great episodes of the Multimedia Week podcast to start your week:

EP 22 – Interview with Shiho Fukada

Shiho Fukada joins the podcast to discuss her World Press Photo award-winning project Japan’s Disposable Workers. In this interview with DJ Clark, Shiho speaks about how she worked on the photography project and the additional benefits having a multimedia component brings to it.

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MediaStorm Wins NPPA Best of Photojournalism Awards’ Best Use of Multimedia & More

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:April 2, 2015

MediaStorm is delighted to announce that The Long Night, our feature-length collaboration with multimedia journalist Tim Matsui funded by the Alexia Foundation, was named Best Use Of Multimedia in NPPA's 2015 Best Of Photojournalism Multimedia contest. The project was also recognized with first place in the Documentary Multimedia Story category. The Los Angeles Times' Product of Mexico was awarded second place in the category while third place went to The Denver Post's Trying to Live, Trying to Learn. MediaStorm was awarded second place in the Multimedia Portfolio category for Hungry Horse: Legends of the Everyday, The Long Night, Japan's Disposable Workers, The Last Chapter, Coney Island Jay and Inside Tracks. The Denver Post took first place in the category, while St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Los Angeles Times received third place and honorable mention respectively. For a full list of this year's winners see the NPPA BoP winners list. Congratulations to this year’s winners.

Photo by Paolo Marchetti, 2015 Alexia Professional Winner

Congratulations to the 2015 Alexia Foundation Grant Recipients

Post author:Cortney Cleveland
Post published:March 6, 2015

Photo by Paolo Marchetti, 2015 Alexia Professional Winner

The Alexia Foundation recently announced the recipients of the 2015 Alexia Foundation Grants: Paolo Marchetti for the professional grant and Michael Santiago for the student grant.

Marchetti of Rome, Italy, will receive the $20,000 professional grant for his project “The Price of Vanity.” The work will document the brutality of the intensive breeding farms used worldwide to produce skins and furs for the high-end fashion industry. It intends to expose this cruel cultural trend driven by remorseless beauty demands.
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