Over the last 8-months MediaStorm has grown it's production capabilities by bringing aboard four top-tier multimedia professionals. The most recent addition is Multimedia Producer Chad Stevens. Before joining MediaStorm Chad was studying as a master's degree candidate at School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Prior to that, he worked as a faculty member at Western Kentucky University's photojournalism program. In 2002, he spent a year living in East Africa producing multimedia projects for Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Read more of Chad's work and personal history. In February, Interactive Designer Tim Klimowicz came aboard. Prior to joining MediaStorm, Tim was completing a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts. His ongoing interactive project - Iraq War Coalition Fatalities - has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and received recognition from multiple media outlets, including the…

LOOK3 - Festival of the Photograph is three days of peace, love and photography to be held June 7th-9th 2007 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival is a celebration of the careers of legendary artists, emerging talent and a showcase for the best photograhy from the past year. Charlottesville's historic downtown will come alive with exhibitions, master classes, insight conversations, outdoor screenings and other events. This year's festival will celebrate Bill Allard, Sally Mann and Eugene Richards among others. Photographers and enthusiasts from around the world will be able to show work, meet new artists and celebrate photography.

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.