I attended the artist lecture of Paula Lerner put on by the Central Virginia Chapter of the ASMP last Thursday and just found out today it would be an appropriate blog post. I will not be posting any of Paula's images as she has a very strict copyright over her images and educational use is not allowed, actually when you go to her portfolio as I hope you will, you agree to a Terms of Use in which all Fair Use and Educational Use are expressly forbidden. I've embedded her URL above, so please do go look at her work, it is all incredible. The lecture I attended was about multimedia in photography, essentially combining sound with your still images. The images are not videos, they may pan across the screen, zoom in or out, but they don't actually function like videos, or stop motion. They were so visually powerful and striking in conjunction with audio, whether ambient noise or recorded monologues, I remember these as video. I actually had to go back to her website to investigate my memory's faults. She has travelled to Afghanistan 3 times to document activities of BPEACE, the Buisness Council for Peace. Much of her work revolves around women's issues. Her piece the Women of Kabul was published on the Washington Post website in 2006 and received a Webby award. She spoke on the techniques she employs to capture sound, the importance of ambient sounds such as feet pattering, sewing machines humming, livestock clucking and mooing, to couch intensely rich imagery.
This is a new medium beginning to show itself commercially as well as in photojournalistic realms, the Washington Post sponsors www.MediaStorm.com which also has many examples of this type of work.
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