401 Projects presents a roundtable discussion with: Laurie Garret, Pulitzer Prize Winner & Author Maryanne Golon, Photo Editor, Time Magazine Leigh Blake, President and Founder, Keep A Child Alive Since AIDS first exploded into the public consciousness twenty-five years ago, photography has offered the world its most visceral glimpse of the disease's human toll. Have viewers been moved to action or developed an immunity to the tragedy the images depict? How can photographers, and the media alike, navigate their way between impact and overload? Set to the backdrop of Kristen Ashburn's, Bloodline: AIDS & Family exhibition, these issues, and more, will be discussed. Photographers, editors, writers, and leaders in the non-profit sector will explore, through conversation and visual projections, photography's reaction to the disease, past, present and future. See Kristen Ashburn's BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family project on MediaStorm. Chris Anderson of the T.E.D. Conference will moderate the evening. 7:30 PM Tuesday, December…

MediaStorm's Never Coming Home, by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac Barr, and a future MediaStorm project entitled "Iraqi Kurdistan," by Ed Kashi, have been chosen to be shown as part of the gallery show "Overload: Photographing the Iraq War." The show opens Sept. 30th in Johnson City, New York. The goal of the show is to bring a balance of strong photojournalism and multimedia about the Iraq war to a general audience in upstate New York Other journalists included in the show are Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Benjamin Lowy, Lucian Read and Stefan Zaklin. More information about the show and the venue is available online or by contacting the curator Stokes Young at stokes.young@gmail.com.

MediaStorm's Friends for Life and Never Coming Home have been selected as part of ten CurrentTV projects to be screened in the IFP Market Film Festival. The IFP Market is a week-long showcase for new features, works-in-progress, shorts, and scripts created by independent filmmakers. The conference will take place in New York City September 17-21, 2006. The CurrentTV screening will take place at the Angelika Film Center on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 and is tentatively scheduled at 4pm. The IFP Market Website: http://market.ifp.org/newyork/market/market28/index02.html

Learn how to combine still photography, voices, ambient sounds and music with digital video editing to tell compelling humanistic stories. The class, taught by Tim Broekema, is for experienced photographers, photojournalists, picture editors, and media producers who want to create compelling visual stories for television, DVD and web publishing using multi-media storytelling techniques. The 2-week class teaches how to combine the power of still images with location interviews, ambient sounds, music and narration to create a cinematic experience. Lectures, demonstrations and fieldwork cover audio gathering, generating story ideas, research methods and interview techniques, linear story development and the process of gathering and selecting images to tell a story about a place, an event or a person. The Maine Photographic Workshops Website: http://www.theworkshops.com/catalog/courses/index.asp?CourseID=2823&SchoolID=20