I swear I work. I just rarely call it that.
January 28, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized
Sometimes I think people back home have no idea what I do. (I am a multimedia journalist, also known as a Media Ninja, thanks to Kari Barber and Nico Colombant, who recently informed me that ‘multimedia’ is a little passé).
Anyways, I freelance from Dakar. I work for bunches o’ people: Voice of America, (THE VOICE if you will.. and we do), VJ Movement, UNICEF, Arise magazine. Last year my photos were published in Marie Claire and NY Times (I was pretty pumped about this, obviously J.)
I gather stories in a variety of ways—photo, video, radio, etc—and then tell them. Most of my work goes up on the World Wide Web.
I’ve decided to update the ole’ photoblog more about what kind of daily work I’m doing, because that way at least I can share a little about West Africa news in the mean time. Plus if I’m feeling lazy, I’ll just repost the story I did for the day. Whoop.
I also think that if another freelancer, or hopeful freelancer, stumbles on this here blog, they will hopefully get a better idea of how the freelance world works. I know I had basically no clue when I started (I now have a few clues… just a few).
This week I did a radio story, video editing for VJ Movement for a story that was due TODAY (ftp’ing as I type), and I visited a UNICEF site to photograph and report for a human interest story they want.. along with a few other random digging for upcoming stories.
But back to the radio story. It’s a topic I’ve been filing on a lot for the past few months. It’s Guinea. Guinea is a country in West Africa south of Senegal. It’s had a rough post-colonial go of it (in terms of democracy), and in December 2008 a coup led by Captain Dadis Camara meant another chapter was beginning. LOTS of stuff happened during 2009 in the country, including a stadium massacre of civilians by the army that left more than 150 dead. Then Camara’s right-hand man shot him in the head in an attempted assassination. Camara lived, but no one heard from him for weeks while he was being treated in a Moroccan hospital. Now there’s a new interim leader, and it looks like things MIGHT be on the upswing. But on verra.. as they say.
Here’s the radio story I did on the latest Guinea news this week..
And for your viewing pleasure.. a goat head I photographed at the Baye Fall all-night singing fest a few weeks back..
poor lil’ guy
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That goat head is no way to start the morning. There should be a viewer’s warning on this post!
I agree, that came out of nowhere.
But goat carcasses aside, wonderful to hear that work still isn’t work for you!!!