Yesterday afternoon, white smoke appeared from the WPP multimedia office in Amsterdam. It’s been three incredible days here in Holland. We have had very long days and we have seen an huge amount of work in a very short time, yet I am confident that we have found the very right winners of the contest.…
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284 multimedia productions have now been cut down to a much healthier number. Today we watched all of the 36 stories that were still left in the contest (in full length), and by the end of the day they were cut down to a definitive list of eight final candidates. It is extremely important to…
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I am currently in Amsterdam working as a jury member for the second World Press Photo Multimedia Contest. Last year I served as a member of a nominating committee in the inaugural competition – but this year there are new rules – and so the objective for the 2012 competition can be boiled down to:…
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WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW. I am back in cold Europe again (Oh no! .. and currently in transit at Frankfurt Airport) after two AMAZING weeks in a pretty remote and hard to-get-to part of Western Ethiopia. Officially I was on a bird trip to Awash National Park. Travelling on a tourist Visa meant I…
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I am in Ethiopia trying to work on a story for a Danish NGO. Things have not been easy so far. I am stuck in the middle of nowhere trying to reach my final destination some 450km West of Addis and I only have one week to shoot. Bummer… The incredible sunset somewhere over the…
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We have been busy teaching workshops for the past month.. and we are still busy! For the past three weeks we have taught the international class of photojournalists at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in a three week intensive course on the joys (and challenges) of advanced online storytelling. When we teach workshops…
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