MediaStorm publishes The Marlboro Marine and Never Coming Home

The Marlboro Marine by Luis SincoLos Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco's photograph of Marine Lance Corporal James Blake Miller became an icon of the Iraq War. The Marlboro Marine is the story of how Miller tries to heal the scars of war and how two lives became connected by a photograph. Never Coming Home by Andrew Lichtenstein and Zac BarrAs soldiers and marines perish in Iraq, headlines and funerals mark their passage. Never Coming Home details a deeply personal and public bereavement, and shows a portrait of grief and sacrifice of families with a hole in their lives, nothing but memory where once there was a living son and brother. Originally published on MediaStorm in 2005, Never Coming Home has been expanded to include never-seen-before stories from several other American families who lost loved ones in Iraq. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of MediaStorm's online publication. We are honored to have…

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College Photographer of the Year

The results for the 62nd College Photographer of the Year Competition were recently announced, and winning images and stories are now available on the CPOY site. Travis Dove (Ohio University) was named 2007 College Photographer of the Year. Along with the still image categories, awards were also given for Multimedia Project (winner: Jeff Giraldo, Western Kentucky University) , Individual Still Image/Audio Story or Essay (winner: Crystal Street, UNC Chapel Hill) and Individual Video or Mixed Media Photo Story or Essay (winner: Tim Gruber, Ohio University). Congratulations to all!

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Voodoo by Les Stone on the Digital Journalist

Photojournalist Les Stone has covered conflict and major stories for over 20 years. He has spent time in Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Cambodia, and many other places, and has returned time and time again to Haiti, where he has covered everything from violent political uprisings to his work on the Voodoo culture, which is featured in this month's Digital Journalist. PF Bentley takes viewers deeper into the story, in a documentary video talking with Les about his work in Haiti, and his life at his place in the Catskills.

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MediaStorm publishes Love in the First Person and Evidence of My Existence

Love In The First Person: by Matt and Melissa EichIn Love in the First Person Matt and Melissa document their life together as they share their thoughts and fears on the sudden changes in their future. In the span of a year, Matt, 20, won College Photographer of the Year, Melissa, 19, discovered she was pregnant, they married and moved to Portland for Matt’s internship. Evidence of My Existence: by Jim Lo ScalzoEvidence of My Existence documents photographer Jim Lo Scalzo's 17-year journey of moving from one new story to the next. It is a manic exposition of a life in photojournalism and the consequences of obsessive wanderlust.

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Never Coming Home book launch and update

Beginning in the summer of 2004, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein and audio producer Zac Barr began interviewing American families who had lost a loved one in Iraq. Their stories, along with intimate photographs of the military funerals and the families, are told in Never Coming Home, originally published on MediaStorm in 2005. Previously seen in many major media publications, Andrew's award-winning images are now available in a book compilation, published this fall. The book launch for Never Coming Home will be on Monday, October 29, 6:30-8:00pm, at The Bubble Lounge, 228 West Broadway, NYC. Additional stories from the project will be premiering that day on MediaStorm.

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