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projects
The Sky Cowboys
Sound design and additional reporting for the New York Times Magazine from original recordings and interviews with the iron workers atop the Freedom Tower in the making. Photographs by Damon Winter. The images and soundscape were part of the Magazine’s commemorative series for the ten-year anniversary of September 11, 2001, and was also exhibited in [...]
Wired Magazine: Issue #19.02
Eva Midgley introduces issue 19.02 of Wired magazine, with a short film based on the theme, Underworld. The magazine promised to expose the world’s largest social network, organized crime and offered a guided tour to the dark side. Eva interpreted the theme under water, creating a murky, ominous, yet beautiful atmosphere, in which you never [...]
New York Times: The Vanishing Mind
For the New York Times’ ongoing series, The Vanishing Mind, focusing on global efforts to combat dementia, music composition for a story set in South Korea: Children Ease Alzheimer’s in Land of Aging by Pam Belluck, photography/video by Todd Heisler, produced by Nancy Donaldson and Soo-Jeong Kang.
New York Times Magazine: Beauty of the Power Game
I was commissioned to score music to film for the New York Times Magazine August 2010, in a series of videos capturing in bullet time the women of professional tennis, shot and directed by Dewey Nicks on phantom cameras, produced by the New York Times Magazine (full credits). Watch the videos, See the photos, Read [...]
Three Women
Role: photographer From the Project Description: Three Women is a work of fiction. I wrote a script and I directed actors. But for me, these stories are also true. They tell the story of women in pain who struggle to make sense of their lives. Photographs tell these stories, not video, as I wanted [...]
Hulu.com
Wrote the music for this public service announcement on the Coal River Mountain Wind Project in conjunction with the upcoming film by milesfrommaybe. The PSA had its debut on Hulu.com. Role: original music
Intended Consequences
Role: original music From the Project Description: An estimated 20,000 children were born from rapes committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intended Consequences chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections about the daily challenges they face today.
Gorilla Massacre
Role: producer From the Project Description: Gorilla Massacre is a story that takes place in the heart of Africa, where humans and animals alike have long suffered a history of violence and instability. It is the home of the endangered mountain gorillas, and where Dian Fossey conducted her intimate research on their world. Photographers Michael [...]
Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Role: producer From the Project Description: The Council on Foreign Relations and MediaStorm collaborated to produce Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Using a comprehensive array of audio, video, imagery, and text, the guide offers an in-depth look at the history of the conflict and its geopolitical repercussions. Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was produced in [...]
Living Without the Enemy
Role: producer Photographer Donna Ferrato, MediaStorm, and Red Design collaborated on AbuseAware.com, a visual resource and communication center on domestic violence. From the Project Description: Back in the 80′s and early 90′s, photographer Donna Ferrato’s book Living With The Enemy took form as she searched for the truth behind domestic violence with her camera. She [...]
Love in the First Person
Role: contributing photographer From the Project Description: One year ago Matt Eich, 20, and Melissa Turk, 19, were typical college students. Then, everything started changing. Matt won the prestigious College Photographer of the Year contest, Melissa found out she was pregnant, they got married and moved from Ohio to Portland, OR, for Matt’s summer internship. [...]
Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina
Role: production assistance From the Project Description: Two years after Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana on August 29, 2005, the story is no longer about leaving. It’s about coming home. For many, that process has not been easy. Tens of thousands of houses still remain empty, a majority of them belonging to the poor. In New [...]
Crisis Guide: Darfur
Role: producer MediaStorm collaborated with the Council on Foreign Relations to produce, design, and implement Crisis Guide: Darfur. The six-chapter project includes a multimedia narrative, interactive maps and timelines, and extensive information on the situation in Darfur. CFR’s Crisis Guides is an ongoing, interactive series that seeks to bring context and historical perspective to the [...]
Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma
Role: producer From the Project Description: Zakouma National Park in Chad is home to one of the world’s largest remaining concentrations of elephants. Zakouma’s armed guards have ensured sanctuary for the hundreds of species that reside within the park. At great personal risk, the guards fight a dangerous war against poachers who hunt the animals [...]
BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family
Role: producer From the Project Description: The AIDS pandemic continues to devastate sub-Saharan Africa. Two million people died from the disease in 2005 alone. Twelve million children have lost at least one parent. The statistics are staggering. “But we are not only talking of numbers here,” says Paddington Mazarura of Zimbabwe, a career professional infected [...]
Blighted Homeland
Role: producer From the Project Description: MediaStorm worked with award-winning Los Angeles Times photojournalist Gail Fisher to produce a four-part multimedia series entitled Blighted Homeland. Excerpt from latimes.com: From 1944 to 1986, 3.9 million tons of uranium ore were dug and blasted from Navajo soil, nearly all of it for America’s atomic arsenal. Navajos inhaled [...]
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