Tag Archives: multimedia

Great photos, shame about the audio? Part 2 – World Press Photo Multimedia winners

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

I blogged just yesterday about some of the challenges of producing audio-slideshows, combining still photography, audio and video. I didn’t realise that, by coincidence, the World Press Photo awards would today be announcing the winners of the 2012 ‘multimedia’ category, … Continue reading →

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Great photos, shame about the audio: What makes a good audio-slideshow?

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

I came across two ‘audio slideshows’ yesterday, on the BBC News and Guardian websites, and just felt I wanted to write a little about them. They both struck me as good examples of slideshows that put photographs and audio together, but … Continue reading →

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24 posts later: a year of blogging on Developing Pictures

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

I just noticed that it’s almost exactly a year ago that I first set up Developing Pictures and posted to this blog. So, to mark this momentous anniversary, I thought I’d just share a list of the 24 posts that … Continue reading →

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From Transit to transitions: do we need multimedia to tell a story?

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

About a week ago I went to the Frontline Club, to see a talk and presentation of Transit, a photo-essay project by award-winning Norwegian photojournalist and picture editor Espen Rasmussen. Espen has spent much of the last seven years photographing … Continue reading →

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Conversations in photography: 25 years of Panos Pictures

Posted on June 21, 2011 by

The photo agency Panos Pictures is 25 years old this year, and to mark this milestone, they’ve produced a great short film, ‘Conversations in photography‘, embedded above. Featuring Panos director, Adrian Evans, in conversation with curator Harry Hardie, and a … Continue reading →

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A serious game? Inside the Haiti Earthquake

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

As an unexpected follow-up to my post from yesterday, on multimedia reporting of the one-year-on point from the Haiti earthquake, I’ve spent this evening exploring an extraordinary multimedia interactive, Inside the Haiti Earthquake, which I came across via a colleague and the … Continue reading →

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Haiti, one year on – in pictures, around the web

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

In my previous post I talked about how numerous photographers and organisations have attempted to document some of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake – which happened almost exactly a year ago today – increasingly using multimedia storytelling techniques. But … Continue reading →

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#06: From real people to virtual villages: Katine to Kroo Bay

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Recently, I’ve been working on editing photo-stories on the food crisis in Chad and flooding in Benin, in conjunction with the NGOs Action Against Hunger (ACF) and Care International. ACF and Care are just two of the many brilliant charities … Continue reading →

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#01: File under development?

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

Developing Pictures is, as the name hopefully suggests, a blog about ‘development’ and about photography. It is a blog that is certainly under development; this is my first post to it. I hope it becomes a space for me to … Continue reading →

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