Weeping Widow

Weeping widow refugee

The Burmese Army killed her husband without arrest or trial because they suspected him to be a rebel fighter

Profile at the Video Journalism Movement

Profile at the Video Journalism Movement 

I will now be submitting show video journalism pieces to the VJ Movement based in Holland. 

Link to the video

"The VJ Movement Foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to support local journalists, empower quality journalism across the world and enhance international reporting. The foundation provides support and training to journalists in regions where freedom of the press is under pressure. It also strives to increase awareness of the importance of the role of journalism in society."  - from the VJM website

Speaking at George Washington University

On Nov. 2 i will be speaking at George Washington University in a talk titled

"Views from the Frontlines: First-hand Accounts from Burma's Conflict Zones" 

The talk is co-sponsored by the US campaign for Burma

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

5:00 - 6:15 PM Lindner Commons 1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor The Elliott School of International Affairs

Please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/BurmaNov2 by Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Howard Chapnick grant

I won the 2011 Howard Chapnick grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund.  I will use the grant to build up Documentary Arts Asia. My NGO dedicated to Advancing visual literacy & Supporting documentary artists in Asia.    you can see the award ceremony below.  My part starts around 13:45-18:00

Fun with my GO-PRO

Different cameras have different personallities and invoke different kind of images to be made.

This week I spent my 33rd birthday cycling around Penang Island in Malaysia with a go-pro and had lots of fun and shot a lot of stills and video i would never have shot with my DSLR workhorse. 

It was really refreshing to feel like I was playing, rather than working, with a camera again.
Can see more video from this trip in my Penang Vimeo album

TED Talk Online

Thanks again for everyone who made this talk possible.

Just finished the Higashikawa Photo festival.

There were 8 major exhibitions for the Higashikawa award winners,
 plus about 40 street exhibitions, many portfolio reviews, speakers and panels, and a few contests.

I showed my images from Daisetsuzan National Park at one of the street exhibition, got a few free portfolio reviews and Nikon made a display and explanation of my body of work on the Kachin that won an award from Nikon last year.
There were many great photographers from all levels and genres.
A few of the many interesting photographers i met were Masako Imaoko, Kazuyoshi Nomachi, Kenji Usuda, Dodo Arata
I learned and enjoyed a lot.   Thanks to everyone who made the festival possible.