Collaborations for Cause

Posted 15 April 2012 by Benj in Announcements, Multimedia, Photography

Collaborations for Cause: A retreat for nonprofits, change-makers and visual storytellers.

This May 4th and 5th, Blue Earth is bringing together photographers, NGOs and communications professionals to explore best practices, synergy and the collaborative future of storytelling. Whether you work with an organization that’s trying to reach new audiences, or are a photographer interested in cause-driven projects, you’ll leave the retreat with new ideas, strategies and connections.

We helped put together the program and if you’ve been interested in taking a workshop with us, this will be even better. We’ll present the backstory to a few of our recent projects during an event packed with folks from Braided River, The Gates Foundation, FusionSpark, Pandau,The University of Washington, Blue Earth and more.

The retreat will be hosted by the Langley Center for New Media on Whidbey Island, just an hour north of Seattle. Enjoy an early bird registration discount through April 25.

Full details at blueearth.org.

Oyster Country

Posted 15 April 2012 by Benj in Facing Climate Change, Field Notes

Over the last month we’ve made three trips to the wet and windy Washington Coast for Facing Climate Change. Our focus is ocean acidification and how that is changing the operations of small, family farmers on Willapa Bay. (You can learn more about recent research in Craig Welch’s article in last week’s Seattle Times.) This story will be released as part of our new series on climate change in the Pacific Northwest.

A huge thanks to the folks at Goose Point, Harrolds Fish & Oyster Co, and Taylor Shellfish for all their help!

UPDATE: Here’s a fantastic article from Crosscut that explains the issue in more detail.

Impossible Bird

Posted 10 April 2012 by Benj in Announcements, Photography

My brother and our musical collaborator, Nick Drummond, is about to release a new CD! The self-titled EP, Impossible Bird, is a new project with Tyler Carson. I contributed all the album photography and design. Read The Seattle Weekly’s review, listen to a sample track below and then join them for the Seattle CD release party on April 28, 2012.

 
Impossible Bird: Here I Am

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Back to Swinomish

Posted 9 February 2012 by Benj in Facing Climate Change, Field Notes

Last week we were back in the field for Facing Climate Change. We’ve been chipping away on a climate change and coasts story with the Swinomish for the last year. On this trip we sat down with Larry Campbell, Brian Cladoosby and Ed Knight for closing interviews. We also spent time exploring the tribe’s economic development zone that’s perched just a few feet above sea level. We’ll release this story, along with seven others, this coming May. Thanks to our good friends Libby and Rusty for providing a perfect Skagit home base.

Recent Press

Posted 9 February 2012 by Benj in Press

In the past few weeks, our work has been profiled in two different publications. Most recently, The Wall Street Journal Photo Journal posted a small gallery of our work featuring TEAM’s global camera trap study. A big thanks to photo editor Rebecca Horne for working with us on this post. (Learn more about our work in Tanzania here.)

And our local paper, the Methow Valley News, did a very nice profile of us the last week of January. They only kept the article online for a week, but you can read the text of Ann McCreary’s article after the jump.

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