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JOB: Videographer/Editor

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Via Sangita Chandra

Videographer/Editor

WCVB Creative Services has an immediate opening for a videographer/editor. Applicants should have several years experience shooting and editing promotion spots or commercials. AVID editing or other non-linear experience a must. We're looking for a highly-motivated, self-starting individual who can work with our producers to create everything from high-end campaigns to quick-turnaround topicals.

Videography experience requires a solid background in location production, especially lighting. We put creativity first, but applicant should be able to technically execute ideas and have plenty of their own.

We are an equal opportunity employer, m/f/d/v. Minorities and females are encouraged to apply. All interested candidates should send a resume to: WCVB-TV, 5 TV Place, Needham, MA 02494-2303,
Attention: Patrick Baldwin, Director of Promotion or e-mail Refer to Job Code VE0204. No phone calls please.

Thresh

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Via Sanjay Cherubala

Preeti Vasudevan‘s new dance company Thresh is on its way to India for four weeks.

Thresh is an international group that creates projects revealing crossovers and exchanges at cultural boundaries. Its unique group consists of independent artists, designers and choreographers each recognized for their contributions in the field of performing arts. Thresh's form of dance-theatre expresses a dialogue with the present, yet remains in constant conversation with traditions of the past. Thresh strives to create discussion between artists from different parts of the world and to keep the path of constant exchange alive.

Salgado’s Transition

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Sebastião Salgado's WORKERS: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age was a gargantuan body of work that fueled my desire to become a documentary photographer. Now comes MIGRATIONS: Humanity In Transition.

For six years and in more than forty countries, he focused his lens on the plight of the dispossessed, both on the road and in the refugee camps and urban slums where they lived.

An exhibition of more than three hundred photographs, will be on display at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 1 through March 28, 2004.

Read more about Salgado's exhibit here.

Bug Off!

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Concerned about your privacy? Not entirely keen on giving up personal information while registering with the likes of The New York Times or The Washington Post? Been the recipient of SPAM and lots of it? You aren't alone and I really do feel your pain.

For a solution, check out BugMeNot. BugMeNot “was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of websites that require compulsory registration and / or the collection of personal / demographic information.”

So, if you are feeling particularly squeamish about plugging in your name, adress, telephone number, email id or any other bit of information, this is your way out. Yes, this will tilt their statistics and the cyber-cops may question your ethics, but I suspect not everybody is going to do this. Life will be in balance, again. Phew!

Mr. Banerjee’s Wilderness

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I remember mentioning Subhankar Banerjee‘s name once before. This may have been in the days before Tiffinbox was in existence, when I slipped an occasional email through the SAJA Yahoo! Groups photojournalists forum.

Banerjee's name popped up again in my inbox, thanks to Blue Earth Alliance's most recent newsletter. BEA is a wonderful group which I urge all you documentary photographers to check out. For several years now they have played an important role, as an umbrella organization, to collect funds for freelance documentary work. It's the brainchild of Natalie Fobes and Phil Borges, two very compassionate photographers I have had the pleasure meeting when I lived in Seattle.

But back to Banerjee. Leave aside for a moment the fact that his images are absolutely beautiful. It's the activist in him that piques my interest. His work (you will read of more of this when you click the link below) convinced law makers in Congress to stall oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness. His work apparently threatened those whose interests lie in plundering the wilderness. His work was censored by the Smithsonian and the resulting media attention only jolted his name and work into the limelight.

“For his relentless pursuit to protect the Arctic Refuge ecosystem and its native cultures he was awarded the first Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in November 2003. Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowships were established to help individuals who have demonstrated leadership on behalf of world cultural freedom, by promoting cultural diversity and strengthening cultural traditions and ties. The purpose of the Fellowship for Cultural Freedom is to encourage and support leaders in American and foreign communities to contemplate, reflect, write, and study. This $100,000 fellowship is given to Banerjee to continue his work in the Arctic Refuge and study other topics on social and environmental impacts of globalization. In addition the foundation gave a $400,000 grant to support his continuing educational outreach through additional exhibits and lectures around the country.”

His first book, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land was finally published in April 2003.

“Before Banerjee started this project he had not published a single photograph anywhere.” Inspired?

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