(This is a guest post from Babita Patel, a humanitarian photographer and founder of the View Finder Workshop, which empowers children in developing countries to tell their stories through photography. The next workshop will be in Kenya this September. All photos © Babita Patel.) I was walking through Cité Soleil, a slum on the...
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Are these cocoa pods in Africa or Asia? Does it matter? (Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World) There’s a controversy brewing in the photojournalism world that I think is relevant to NGO work: misrepresentation in photography. More about the controversy in a moment. First an explanation of misrepresentation. It includes using a...
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A couple weeks ago I ran a storytelling training session for an NGO client. One question that came up a few times was, how can I better photograph meetings? Here’s my advice after shooting dozens of meetings, seminars and conferences: Photograph at either the beginning or end of a meeting so as not to...
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Eric Maierson of MediaStorm recently wrote an encouraging blog post about finishing what you start. (If you don’t know MediaStorm, it’s a multimedia agency that produces video stories for a lot of NGOs. This moving story for the International Center for Research Women is a good one to watch.) Eric writes: …the last few...
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Rarely do organizations share their stories of projects gone wrong. So I was intrigued by this New York Times blog post‘s mention of Admitting Failure, a website the collects stories about development failures (hat tip to my friend Ellen Lee for telling me about the NYT post). There are only a handful of stories...
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Good luck with your applications! Director of Emergency Media and Communications at Save the Children in Washington, D.C., or Westport, CT The Director will plan and execute successful communications and marketing strategies primarily in support of our Priority Result 1 programs (Emergencies and Child Protection), working closely with the Disaster and Humanitarian Response (DHR)...
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(This is a guest post from Isaiah Brookshire, a writer, photographer, and globally-focused multimedia storyteller specializing in cultural and humanitarian storytelling. You can learn more about him on his website: www.isaiahbrookshire.com) When an NGO hires a freelance photographer, usually the photographer will present the NGO with a contract detailing things like licenses, copyright, usage,...
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Here are 10 job opportunities for everyone from editors to storytellers to people with web skills. I’m noticing that more job descriptions request applicants with photo and video skills. I take that as a good sign that organizations recognize the need for strong visuals. Good luck job hunting! ———- Online Content Coordinator at Pathfinder...
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You’re sent to the field to take pictures and get quotes from project participants. The story runs on your organization’s blog and then you never again see those assets — the photographs, quotes, soundbites and video you produced. All that work, just for one blog post? No. I’m a big believer in ensuring story...
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