Upsides to “I”
When Stephanie Hanes set out to write her first, forthcoming book, about an environmental project in Mozambique funded by a rich Westerner, editors and…
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A Photographer Documents His Wife’s Losing Battle With Cancer
Two years ago this week, Angelo Merendino’s wife Jennifer died, at age 40, of breast cancer. Merendino, a photographer, documented her journey with the…
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Refugee Hotel
The Bronx Documentary Center is showing the exhibit through December 21 The mood cast by the photographs on the walls of the Bronx Documentary…
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Hearing (new) voices
An innovative financing model may change the face of public radi. Sue Schardt wants to mess with your mind. Specifically, she wants to mess…
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Beyond the Soldier Cliches
After 10 years in Iraq, photojournalists seek new vocabularies of war About halfway through America’s decade-long intervention in Iraq, Ashley Gilbertson sensed war fatigue….
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The Square Resist the Usual Characters
A new documentary on the Egyptian revolution makes the uprising, rather than the uprising’s participants, its centerpiece Over the years, I’ve had occasion to…
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The Human Face of Healthcare Debates
A documentary chronicles “24 hours. 241 patients. 1 stretched ER” A middle-aged man who lays carpet can’t sleep at night from bone-spur pain. He…
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Watch Where You’re Going — Race, Power, Police and Storytelling
In “Where I Am Going,” an advocacy group enlists the power of visual storytelling to tackle stop-and-frisk The power of short documentary video to…
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After the Uproar
A photographer’s continued work on domestic violence Earlier this year, photographer Sara Lewkowicz caught a moment of domestic violence on camera. Lewkowicz had been…
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The Media’s Favorite Disaster Scare Story
Looting. Almost immediately, the word creeps into the conversation. It’s a word we need to be careful with. Less than 24 hours after the…
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