Chile Earthquake 4 – what the ocean took
This is the video that breaks my heart. This was the most destruction I saw of all the earthquake. The earthquake left much standing. The ocean was merciless. And these people, in this secluded town, did not receive any governmental help until Thursday – a load of clothing and food. [...]
Reporting in disaster zones – Part 2
When communications fail it’s really hard to deliver your material to your contractors. Yes, digital media helps in capturing and editing material far faster than traditional media, but also consumes an enormous amount of power (laptop and camera batteries) and requires a steady data connection in order to transmit, which was non-existent at the time.
Power, [...]
The Chilean Earthquake, 1 – Challenges of a Disaster Zone
Last Saturday, at 3.37am, Chile was struck by a terrible earthquake. At the epicenter, the quake registered 8.8 on the Richter Scale, one of the 5 strongest earthquakes at least since 1922. By noon, Nacho and I had been flooded with requests for photos and or video. I was hired by the AP to shoot [...]
Chased by light
My primary focus has been documentary storytelling.
I LOVE spending time with people I don’t know anything about and telling their stories.
It’s a great satisfaction to be able to get immersed in an unknown world and be accepted as one more in their lives while taking photos and video of their daily activities.
But sometimes, I find [...]
Canon 5D MarkII Shooting: Advice
A friend of mine is interested in getting into the video world. He’s going to enter the YouTube Project Report Contest. He asked me whether he should use his friend’s Canon that shoots video or rent a video camera. This was my response, detailing some of the things that are helpful to [...]
Laying Multimedia Plans
Santiago’s Metro is expanding. The government opened three new stations (conveniently, days before a tight presidential election) and announced about a week and a half ago that they would begin building an entirely new line, which will connect a heavily working class area of the city with a heavily middle and upper class section.
I was [...]
Gone out shooting
Man it feels nice. Today I went with Eileen while she was on assignment for La Tercera, where she’s shooting some of the topics that the presidential candidates are focusing on.
This time it was “minusválidos” (disabled) and for that she’s following Francisca Mardones (36) who’s 17th in the world tennis ranking for handicapped people. [...]
Fighting against the tides
Man, it’s been only 3 months, but really long ones.
On one side, I’m really happy to see my family and friends in regular basis but on the other it’s been so hard to make people realize the importance of multimedia usage.
There’s definitely a need for multimedia producers and they (the media industry)know they want multimedia [...]
Stretching our photographic muscles
A few days after we arrived in Santiago, a friend asked us to take just a few stills of a small carnival that was going on in Santiago.
“Why not make a small multimedia piece about it?” we said, so this is the result. Just a couple of hours shooting, having fun and trying to work [...]
Blogging together and the Mapuche protest
Nacho and I decided to start a blog together. More accurately, I decided we should start a blog together, and he didn’t object.
Why together?
1. We work together constantly. I do what I can to help him, he perfects my work. To put up work on separate blogs would really muddle the contributions of each. We’re [...]