My friend and talented photographer Nick Cobbing photographed a winter sea ice expedition for the January 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine. He also brought back some beautiful video from the journey. This is the video I produced with Nick’s amazing footage.
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Exposure: Vultures
The Exposure series is a project I started with Spencer Millsap about a year ago. It revolves around an interview with the photographer and photo editor and photos/video from the assignment–sort of giving a behind the scenes look at what it’s like to be on assignment for National Geographic.
Here’s the latest from the Exposure series, featuring photographer Charlie Hamilton James and his vultures story from the January 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
The Biggest Storm
I started a project for National Geographic at the end of July about storm chaser Tim Samaras and the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado. Tim, his son Paul Samaras, and teammate Carl Young were killed in the 2.6-mile wide tornado last May. Tim had worked closely with National Geographic on many projects through the years and my story was to be both tribute to the three men and a closer look at the record-breaking tornado.
This was probably the most difficult story I’ve ever worked on for a few reasons. The time we had to work on this story was much, much less than we typically take to produce a story of this size. More importantly, I felt a responsibility to tell the most honest story of Tim, Paul and Carl that I possibly could. I traveled to Germany and across the United States with one of my teammates collecting interviews about the men and learning more about what happened during the El Reno tornado. Here are the final products–a huge group effort from the talented people I work with. You can see the rest of the story in the November issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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National Geographic Photo Seminar
What an amazing week! National Geographic has a photo seminar each year–a gathering of photographers and artists and a time to share projects and works in progress. I had such a great time! We are working on a project that revolves around photographer interviews and we shot many of them this week while everyone was in town. What an amazing group of people with GREAT stories to tell!
There were also some wonderful presentations at seminar. The wonderful Sebastiao Salgado came to present his beautiful project, Genesis, artist JR shared a projection of his work and Aaron Huey told the touching story of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
An incredibly inspiring week! Can’t wait to see what happens next.
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