Posts Tagged ‘island’
Anchored in Faith
Ko Panyee is a true island village, built on stilts above the bay in southern Thailand. The humble community seems happy in its poor fishing heritage and Islamic faith but is also buoyed by a steady lunch crowd of tourists from nearby Phuket.
Photographer, videographer, editor.
Featured in Endeavors, the magazine of research and creative activity at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2009.
Andaman Rising
When the Asian tsunami hit southern Thailand in 2004, the sea that had sustained the region for generations—the Andaman—rose up, destroying families and killing thousands. Three-and-a-half years later, a team of journalists set out for the seaside province of Phang-nga to document the lives and culture of people living by the Andaman. They found a people marked—but not defined—by disaster, a people who have taken on challenges and risen above them.
Videographer, photographer, editor, team video support and equipment logistics.
Awards:
2009 Online Journalism Award for Student Journalism (team award).
2009 Society for News Design Best of Multimedia Design Silver Award (team award).
2009 Horizon Interactive Award, Gold, College & University (team award).
NPPA Multimedia Contest, Sept. 2008, 1st Place, Multimedia Project (team award).
South of Here
South of Here is a documentary multimedia project produced by students from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Facultad de Comunicación at the Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. It explores the history, people and communities of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina and Chile, the surrounding waterways and their critical relationship to the environment.
Stories are told in both English and Spanish.
I visited Puerto Toro on Navarino Island in southern Chile, the southern-most settlement in the world, to contribute the video “Population 36.”
Videographer, editor.
Awards: 2008 Online Journalism Award for Student Journalism, Online News Association (team award).