Singing the Suffering of Haiti

Singing the Suffering of Haiti is an audio-slide show from the New York Times made by photojournalist Todd Heisler and narrated by journalist Simon Romero. The piece is about Beken, a haitian singer-songwriter born Jean-Prosper Deauphin. It is a touching story about this musician playing again after the Jan. 12 earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010. 

To enter the audio-slide show please click in the photo.

(Photo ©Todd Heisler/New York Times-All Rights Reserved)

This piece was recognized by the Best of Photojournalism 2011 (BOP), a contest organized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

The Jazz Loft Project

Here is an audio-slideshow The Jazz Loft Project by New York Times. From 1957 to 1965 photographer W. Eugene Smith recorded  4,000 hours on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and took 40,000 photographs of major jazz musicians in a loft of Manhattan. This work was archived until Sam Stephenson published a book last year. Jeffrey Henson Scales produced this magnificent work. If you like Jazz you are going to enjoy this. To see the audio-slide show click in the picture.

(Photo ©Eugene Smith/The Jazz Loft Project-All Rights Reserved)

This piece got an award from the Best of Photojournalism 2011 (BOP), a contest organized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in the U.S.

For more information about this amazing project enter this link: www.jazzloftproject.org

Best of Photojournalism 2011-NPPA

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), has announced the winners of the Best Of Photojournalism 2011(BOP) for still photography.

Their Best of Show is a picture by Andrew McConnell taken for Panos pictures. I shared some of his work in this blog past November.

Lately in photojournalism it seems that (with the best of the intentions) the top international photojournalist awards go to images featuring death, pain, cruelty, blood, etc.  It's great to see NPPA has chosen as its top image, one that shows more than one side of life, poverty but also hope, destruction but also creation.

Congratulations to Andrew McConnell and to Panos pictures for this prize.

(Photo ©Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures-All Rights Reserved)

I also want to congratulate to my wife Leslie Mazoch, a photo editor at the Associated Press' Latin America & Caribbean headquarters in Mexico City, who won 2nd place in the Sports Picture Story category with her Escaramuza pictures which I shared in this blog in January. 

(Photo ©Leslie Mazoch/AP-All Rights Reserved)

Leslie created an audio-slide show about this Mexican tradition. Please enter here:
http://www.lesliemazoch.com/escaramuzas

To visit all the winners enter this link: http://bop.nppa.org/2011/still_photography/winners/