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