A hell of a deal!
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J.R. Hudson
Spirit Animal
But the dudes portfolio rules.
Paul Hudson
Vacuum Tube Member
Pookie,
I say we sign up and find a way to drop this bum of in a Hatian slum with all the cash.
I say we sign up and find a way to drop this bum of in a Hatian slum with all the cash.
mikkowilson
Steadi-Guru
Richard J. Johnson
Joystick Member
crazy
ryan brown
lOwEr CaSe Member
I'd trade all the talent in the world for a little respect and character.
ryan brown
lOwEr CaSe Member
Was this just taken down? I've been checking his site intermittently just because the comments where hilarious. I figured he'd be pretty much forced to take it down... was losing a lot of respect from fellow photog's.
Pookie
Veteran
Apparently, there was only one "taker".
"This ten day intensive workshop brought photography student Anais Dodson to Haiti. The workshop was designed to fit Anais' needs with a focus on photographing people, documentary photography, editing and the marketing and business side of photojournalism.
The workshop began in Port au Prince where the first day was spent as if setting up for an editorial assignment: making local contacts, researching possible stories, setting up a local mobile phone and working on the logistics involved in shooting an assignment abroad. The second day was spent narrowing down story ideas and getting Anais comfortable with approaching and photographing perfect strangers.
The workshop then moved into the process of visual storytelling and how to begin shooting a photographic story. Zoriah and Anais had several story ideas at this point and went to a local prison to try to begin shooting a story on the large number of homeless, juvenile detainees in an overcrowded prison system. They later decided that day that the bureaucracy of acquiring government permission to shoot in the prisons would be too difficult to deal with and decided to pursue another story idea they had come up with.
Since Anais was not only interested in capturing good images and good stories but also making a living from doing so, they decided that capturing a multidimensional story in Haiti would be the most interesting and also the most marketable.
Zoriah and Anais decided to focus the workshop around a story on the social and environmental impact of charcoal use in Haiti. Only two percent of Haiti's trees remain, after years of cutting to supply the nation with charcoal. The solution is not easy as Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and much of its population lives in dire poverty without resources to cook with anything other than charcoal. to make matters worse, the deforested areas give way to soil erosion and disasters such as massive mudslides which plunge the country and its population into an even deeper state of poverty.
To examine this story in-depth, Zoriah and Anais photographed business such as restaurants and dry cleaners which rely on coal for energy. They also visited City Soleil, the largest slum in Haiti where residents rely on coal to cook their food. They photographed the docks where coal is unloaded from boats by laborers as well as a rural area where they photographed the process of charcoal being made. The final four days of the workshop were spent trekking into an extremely remote area to visit the last remaining forested area in Haiti, which is quickly being torn down to produce more charcoal. They photographed both those who rely on cutting down trees to survive and those who try to prevent them and spread awareness about the environmental impact of destroying the forest.
All of these elements came together to make a wonderful feature story that both Zoriah and Anais were proud of."
"This ten day intensive workshop brought photography student Anais Dodson to Haiti. The workshop was designed to fit Anais' needs with a focus on photographing people, documentary photography, editing and the marketing and business side of photojournalism.
The workshop began in Port au Prince where the first day was spent as if setting up for an editorial assignment: making local contacts, researching possible stories, setting up a local mobile phone and working on the logistics involved in shooting an assignment abroad. The second day was spent narrowing down story ideas and getting Anais comfortable with approaching and photographing perfect strangers.
The workshop then moved into the process of visual storytelling and how to begin shooting a photographic story. Zoriah and Anais had several story ideas at this point and went to a local prison to try to begin shooting a story on the large number of homeless, juvenile detainees in an overcrowded prison system. They later decided that day that the bureaucracy of acquiring government permission to shoot in the prisons would be too difficult to deal with and decided to pursue another story idea they had come up with.
Since Anais was not only interested in capturing good images and good stories but also making a living from doing so, they decided that capturing a multidimensional story in Haiti would be the most interesting and also the most marketable.
Zoriah and Anais decided to focus the workshop around a story on the social and environmental impact of charcoal use in Haiti. Only two percent of Haiti's trees remain, after years of cutting to supply the nation with charcoal. The solution is not easy as Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and much of its population lives in dire poverty without resources to cook with anything other than charcoal. to make matters worse, the deforested areas give way to soil erosion and disasters such as massive mudslides which plunge the country and its population into an even deeper state of poverty.
To examine this story in-depth, Zoriah and Anais photographed business such as restaurants and dry cleaners which rely on coal for energy. They also visited City Soleil, the largest slum in Haiti where residents rely on coal to cook their food. They photographed the docks where coal is unloaded from boats by laborers as well as a rural area where they photographed the process of charcoal being made. The final four days of the workshop were spent trekking into an extremely remote area to visit the last remaining forested area in Haiti, which is quickly being torn down to produce more charcoal. They photographed both those who rely on cutting down trees to survive and those who try to prevent them and spread awareness about the environmental impact of destroying the forest.
All of these elements came together to make a wonderful feature story that both Zoriah and Anais were proud of."