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10.Q Interviews: Spencer Stoner – Humanitarian Filmmaker & Photographer

Welcome to 10.Q Interviews.This section usually features interviews to Humanitarian, Cultural & Travel Photographers, their work and photography. This week in 10.Q Interviews, Spencer Stoner: “Spencer Stoner is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in Austin, Texas. He specializes in providing distinct and personal approaches to visual storytelling and awareness-raising for non-profit and private-sector clients [...]

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Approaching Storytelling in your Photography. (3 Tips!)

These photographs are from my third day at Remedy Mission, which was Friday. It was a long day, being that I woke up at 6:30 a.m. and I got back home at 11:30 p.m. During my third day I had to change my strategy towards getting the photographs for Preemptive Love. Why? Because it was [...]

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Working on Remedy Mission – Day 2 – Photographs

I’m leaving home in a few minutes, because today I will be in surgery for the first time. Yesterday I documented another procedure with one of the surgeons, but today is something totally different and far more complicated. The other thing that’s special about today’s surgery is that I’m following the story behind this patient. [...]

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Working on Remedy Mission – Photographs

It’s my first day of shooting for the Remedy Mission by Preemptive Love in Iraq, and I’m so exhausted! If you haven’t heard about this Remedy, please check mylast post here, or better yet, go to Preemptive Love’s website. My first conclusion is this: You’ve got to be strong to work among these children, especially [...]

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Pursuing and Creating Light! (resources)

If you have been following my Tweets, then you may remember me talking about on-location lighting setups. For a long time, I’ve been thinking about making a lighting setup for environmental portraits and editorial types of shots. Photographers such as Mitchell Kanashkevich, have helped in this quest. He has a great e-book on using flash, [...]

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Working for the Family Center in Rapareen – Iraq

Beside being a photographer, I am also a humanitarian aid worker. I’m currently working on a wide variety of developmental programs. The last couple weeks I’ve been photographing our work through a Family Center, located in northern Iraq. In that Center we provide different social programs to the local community. As you probably have read [...]

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Assignment Length? Allowing yourself to be impacted by people stories

Before I start I want to make a couple of things really clear. First off, I’m not trying to change your mind about the length of your assignments, but I want to give you another perspective/approach towards the time spent on your stories. This is not a post to tell you, “You are wrong and [...]

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Prosperity Candle and the story of Waffa…

You don’t believe in social media? Don’t value having a Flickr account, per se? No, today I’m NOT going to talk about the power of networking on the Internet, but I AM going to tell you the story behind my last assignment. How is that related to social media? Well, the way I met the [...]

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Let’s talk about Contracts

As Matt Brandon well describes in his blog post called “Don’t be an ass get a contract“, we should all have a written contract at the time of starting an assignment. Contracts are not a thing to be afraid of, so why have we stopped talking about them? You should have a contract even when [...]

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How NGOs can use the images that Photographers produce! (5 ideas)

[May 20, 2010] Have you visited any NGOs websites lately? What about other non-profit organizations? Have you found anything interesting? Aesthetically pleasing? How about their photographs? Do you think the non-profits are really putting their voice/cause out there in a way that causes you to engage only with visiting their website? Do you think that’s [...]

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The Advantages of Working Pro-bono

[May 10, 2010] If you thought that I was totally sold out on the idea of never doing pro-bono work, you are wrong. After posting “Why we should not do pro-bono work,” and as the second part of this trilogy, today I’m going to promote pro-bono work, so I will highlight the advantages of doing [...]

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Why We should not do Pro-bono work

[May 4, 2010] Since I started to play with the idea of becoming a photographer, the question of doing pro-bono work has been an issue that I haven’t been able to address. For long time I didn’t have a concrete opinion, or let’s say, I didn’t pick a side. Now, through the Internet, I’ve found [...]

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Dignity to our Subject

[March 31, 2010] This week has been a little bit crazy with work. We are in the middle of a busy time dealing with several NGO projects concerning our Team. The good thing about this is that each of these projects will provide help, and assist development to the people that we love and care [...]

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Photography and the Family

[March 17th, 2010] In 1999, as a part of a trip throughout Peru, I had the opportunity to visit Machu Picchu (if you have never been there, you should go!) It was an incredible time for me, because that was the year when I decided that I should leave Chile and look for another place [...]