Here is what I thought to be one of the best presentations at Eddie Adams this year. Platon was a hilarious down-to-earth guy with that British wit, you couldn’t help but laugh your way through his talk.
Audio from Vincent Laforet’s blog at http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/
Platons website: http://www.platonphoto.com/
Some days, you just have to go shoot photos for yourself, for the fun of it. 
Man and his dog, Jericho Beach.
A cool multimedia piece done by the New York Times which gives a very good overview of the recent presidential election in the USA.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2008-election-overview/
What didn’t surprise me was seeing Zach Wise’s name in the list of credits, he has moved on to the NYT from the Las Vegas Sun, where he was working when we brought him in as a speaker at Photojournalism 2008 in Vancouver. A really talented guy.
A couple of my fav stills shooting the beautiful ladies down at Beauty Night on the Downtown Eastside tonight. I am shooting video and stills in order to put together a multimedia production for the non-profit organization. To find out more, go here.
I wonder how these kids from the streets of Goma are doing. 5.4 Million people killed in Congo in the last 20 years, and really no immediate end in sight. It’s the average Congolese person who is trying to live their life and has had any chance of doing that taken away by a government awash with corruption and inaction. For a great multimedia production on Congo, I encourage all to watch Congo: Rape of a Nation by Marcus Bleasdale.
Although my eyes are glazing over from spending so much time in front of my laptop screen editing my footage from Rwanda, my short documentary piece is starting to come together and I am smiling and laughing while looking at the footage of the kids. It is really cool to have the footage and be able to be right back there and see the smiles on their faces. When I was there I was too into the moment of teaching and talking and filming to pick up on the minute details of the situation at the time, and the video I shot really makes me appreciate having it, if for no reason other than as a personal memento.
