New York Times Magazine Instagram Voyages
Excited to go on assignment as an iPhone photographer for the New York Times Magazine’s annual Voyages issue. Anderson House, Washington DC. 1 mile from home #NYTvoyage. A 104-year-old mural gets a careful bath with a tiny cotton swab.
2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games
Joined the professional volunteer documentary team shooting, editing, and producing alongside staff media coverage of the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. At the foot of the 2018 Olympic ski jump, Pyeongchang South Korea. iPhone photo by Nick Scott
100 Gallons: UNC Powering a Nation 2012
Had the pleasure of serving as a coach for the talented crew of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Powering a Nation special report. You can see the resulting feature video-slash-launchpad to more content here: www.100gallons.org. From the site: “”100 Gallons” explores how our most critical resource goes far beyond traditional ...
LUCEO Images Student Project Award 2012
Juror for the 2012 LUCEO Images Student Project Award, a grant made by LUCEO Images in support of a student long-term photographic project. Congratulations to Alena Zhandarova:
Alexia Foundation Website Redesign
Served as supervising producer for the brand and website redesign of the Alexia Foundation, working with the talented design and development team of Mike Schmidt, Jody Sugrue, and Tom Jackson. Alexia’s mother and co-founder, Aphrodite Tsairis, welcomes all to the new site, the first redesign in the 20-year history of the foundation’s continuous support for documentary photography projects. ...
69th Pictures of the Year International
Damon Winter/The New York Times Honored to be included in the 69th Pictures of the Year International awards. Sky Cowboys was one of three pieces comprising Damon Winter’s winning Multimedia Portfolio of the Year. Too Young to Wed by Stephanie Sinclair places second for Issue Reporting Multimedia Story. Too Young to Wed by Stephanie Sinclair
Digital Ellies: National Magazine Awards 2012
Honored to be included in Wired Magazine’s win for Design: National Magazine Award for Digital Media 2012, for its Underworld Issue, February 2011 on the iPad. Presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Original music and sound design for the iPad video cover of the magazine.
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 ...
School of Visual Arts: Multimedia for Photographers
Adjunct Instructor, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 for the School of Visual Arts’ MPS Digital Photography Program Introduction to Multimedia.
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 ...
International Center of Photography
Instructor for Full-time Programs, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. From the course description: This course integrates visual communication skills with sound, voice, and narrative storytelling and presentation. Students expand their visual vocabulary, learn the core principles of audio storytelling, integrate their vision and style with multimedia tools, and combine their photography with sound to create a ...
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.
FotoWeek DC: International Awards Competition
Served as a juror for FotoweekDC 2010 International Awards Competition, Multimedia Division.
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 ...
Maine Media Workshops
Instructor for Multimedia Production at the Maine Workshops. From the course description: Storytelling is at the heart of multimedia. Developing compelling narratives increases the odds that viewers engage documentary content and remember it. For this workshop, students bring previously shot multimedia pieces and work directly with industry professionals to shape and craft their stories. Students ...
Cilantro Hating in the Blogosphere
My aggressive opinion of cilantro makes a guest appearance in food writer Regina Schrambling’s Epicurious blog. Read it here.
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 ...
Newhouse Network: 25 to Watch
Featured in Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications’ Newhouse Network magazine’s “25 to Watch”, Spring 2010.
Photo District News: Anatomy of a Grant
Interviewed by Photo District News for article: Anatomy of a Winning Grant Proposal: Louie Palu’s Kandahar Project. See the proposal here.
Nominated: Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade
Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik, produced by Chad Stevens/MediaStorm was nominated for New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade. Role: original music
POYi 67: Editing & Multimedia
For Pictures of the Year International, served on the Multimedia & Editing Division judging panel with Heidi deLaubenfels, Sonya Doctorian, and Jim Lo Scalzo. Humbled with gratitude for the work of so many visions. About Pictures of the Year International (POYi): Since its founding in 1944, POYi has become the oldest and ...
The 2009 Alexia Foundation Grant
Served as a juror for the professional and student grant awards The Alexia Foundation for World Peace with Tom Kennedy and Patty Reksten. About: The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to respect history lest we forget it and to understand cultural difference as our strength — not our ...
WHNPA: Eyes of History 2010
At the White House News Photographers Association Eyes of History 2010 contest, served as a New Media judge with Meredith Birkett, MSNBC.com and Bruce Strong, Syracuse University. Amazing work to see, and congrats to all… Role: judge, New Media category
2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
MediaStorm’s Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik and produced by Chad A. Stevens receives the first duPont Award for a Web-based production. Congrats to all! role: original music
National Public Radio
Worked with National Public Radio newsroom producers and reporters in workshops on conceptualizing and producing visual stories as part of the two-year long Knights in Training multimedia training program.
“Launch” Exhibition
Co-curated with Susanne Miklas/Newsweek and Melanie McWhorter/Photo-Eye the Women Photojournalists of Washington’s “Launch” exhibition at Honfleur Gallery during Fotoweek DC 2009 Festival, opening November 7, 2009. Thanks to all, photographers! PHOTOGRAPHERS: Astrid Riecken, Allison Shelley, Abby Greenawalt, Ashley Twiggs, Algerina Perna, Amanda Lucidon, Andrea Bruce, Carol Guzy, Gabriela Bulisova, Jamie Rose, Katie Falkenberg, Laura Elizabeth ...
30th National Emmy Awards
Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik and MediaStorm (produced by Chad A. Stevens) was nominated in the 30th Annual Emmy Awards for New Approaches to News and Documentary: Documentaries! Role:original music.
Look3: Greenroofs
Slideshow featurette on the Green Roofs story in May 2009 National Geographic Energy Issue debuts at Look3 Photography Festival in Charlottesville, VA. Photography and narration by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel. Production by Blair Madigan. Role: original music
NPPA Multimedia Immersion Seminar
National Press Photographer’s Association, Seth Gitner and Will Sullivan host a massive weeklong adventure of people and knowledge and gear in Las Vegas. Role: coach, speaker
Partnering with NGOs to Produce Meaningful Work
Guest speaker at Jonathan Torgovnik’s workshop, “Partnering with NGOs to Produce Meaningful Work” on collaborating with NGOs and Non-for-Profit organizations to communicate issues of contemporary social significance at the International Center of Photography.
2009 Webby Awards
Congrats to all–MediaStorm’s Intended Consequences wins 2009 Webby Award for Documentary: Individual Episode. Role: original music.
Special Olympics World Winter Games
Coaching a small army of students to film, edit and post video footage of every athlete in every heat of every event at the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Boise, ID.
Beyond Bootcamp Workshops
Spoke on multimedia strategies for the Open Society Institute and original music composition for storytelling at the inaugural Beyond Bootcamp Workshops at the University of Miami.
INAFU6059: The Wired World
Had the pleasure of serving as a reoccurring guest speaker on video advocacy strategies and production at Columbia University’s School for International Affairs (SIPA) in The Wired World, taught by professors Tom Glaisyer, Jed Miller and Anya Schiffrin. From the course description: Students will learn the practical skills of new media, including blogging, audio and ...
The Book of Peoples
From the Book Description: As cultures and languages disappear from the Earth at a shocking rate, it becomes all the more urgent for us to know and value the world’s many ethnic identities. At once a comprehensive reference, an appreciation of diversity, and a thoughtful look at our instinct to belong, National Geographic’s Book of ...
The Town of Clay
The Fall Workshop 2008 for Syracuse University photojournalism and military students descended on Clay this weekend. A tradition continues.
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 ...
29th National Emmy Awards
Congrats to all! Crisis Guide: Darfur by MediaStorm and the Council on Foreign Relations wins the 2008 Emmy for New Approaches to News and Documentary: News Coverage. Role: producer
NPPA Multimedia Immersion Seminar
A massive weeklong movement of people and knowledge and gear in Low-ah-vill, KY. Role: faculty, speaker
2008 Webby Awards
Congrats to all! The Open Society Institute’s Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster produced by MediaStorm wins the 2008 Webby Award for Charitable Organizations Non-Profit Website. Role: web producer MediaStorm was nominated for the 2008 Webby Award in the Broadband Website category. Role: multimedia producer Finding the Way Home by Brenda Ann Kenneally and produced by MediaStorm ...
NGOs and Documentary Photography
Guest speaker at Jonathan Torgovnik’s workshop, “Partnering with NGOs to Produce Meaningful Work” at the International Center of Photography.
65th Pictures of the Year International
Congrats to all! Multimedia Awards in the 65th Pictures of the Year International: MediaStorm places first for Best Use Multimedia – Small Markets. Role: multimedia producer Gorilla Massacre by Brent Stirton and Michael Nichols, produced by MediaStorm for National Geographic places second for Best Multimedia Feature Story. Role: producer
Workshop: Photography as Advocacy
Guest speaker at Lori Grinker’s workshop on documentary photography as a tool for advocacy at the International Center of Photography.
Get this Dumpling Party Started
Our Brooklyn dumpling gathering featured in the LA Times, written by guest and illustrious foodie Regina Schrambling. Picture courtesy of Tim Klimowicz.
Magazine Publishers of America Digital Awards
2007 Magazine Publishers of America Digital Awards Gorilla Massacre produced by MediaStorm for National Geographic Magazine places second for Best Online Video Standalone in the 2007 Magazine Publishers of America Digital Awards. Role: producer
The Alexia Seminars
Guest speaker at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as part of a series of seminars for the Alexia Foundation. Congrats to 2008 grant winners Stephanie Sinclair and Matt Eich!
28th National Emmy Awards
Kristen Ashburn BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family by Kristen Ashburn and produced by MediaStorm was nominated for the 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary/Nonfiction Programming! Role: producer
Special Olympics World Summer Games
Coaching 200+ Chinese students to film, edit and post video footage of every athlete in every heat of every event for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
2007 Knight-Batten Awards
CFR.org’s Crisis Guides, produced by MediaStorm for the Council on Foreign Relations was awarded first place in the 2007 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Role: producer
2007 Webby Awards
MediaStorm wins the 2007 Webby Award for the Magazine category! Role: multimedia producer
64th Pictures of the Year International: Multimedia
64th Pictures of the Year International Multimedia Awards Multimedia publications recognized: MediaStorm places first for Best Use Interactive Publication/Small Media. Role: multimedia producer BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family by Kristen Ashburn places second for Best Multimedia News Story or Essay. Role: producer Congrats to all!
64th Pictures of the Year International: Photography
Pamela Chen An image from an essay I made on a migrant family in Shanghai placed second for Feature Picture, Magazine Division in the 64th Pictures of the Year International competition.
Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism
Blighted Homeland by Gail Fisher and produced by MediaStorm for the Los Angeles Times earned honorable mention in the 2007 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism by the Journalism Center on Children and Families. Role: producer