Five Years On…

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Mike

Doesn’t time fly when you’re bringing freedom to the world?

My friend Christian recently travelled to Jordan with his camera to cover a story that I haven’t seen much about elsewhere. Certainly not in the mainstream press. Christian makes his living from photography, but he’s also embraced Social Media.

In fact it’s much more than an embrace - while the rest of us were still stammering at the front door, he’s climbed up into the bedroom and fucked the living shit out of Social Media. He’s been truly innovative on just about every platform I know and it’s a pleasure to see him go back to his roots and then use these new platforms to distribute his work.

If you’re old media and worried about keeping up you should be paying Documentally for his advice.

Here’s his photo-video (edited by Bill Cammack, another one of the good guys):

I love what he does here with conventional photography - it works in a way that conveys a sense of immediacy that a ‘talking heads’ style approach would never have captured.

The truly sad thing is that as much as I love watching Christian do the wacky stuff he’s become known for, I feel there’s always going to be a need for him to jump on a plane to report on these horrific problems that we keep causing.

Comments

  • Benny on March 17th, 2008

    Sneaked a look at his past photography on ourmanindside.com today at work truly beautiful stuff. Just shows that there are so many sides to the story. I was out in abu dhabi a couple of years ago and they reported on iraq so much differently. seemingly less biased.

  • Bill Cammack on March 18th, 2008

    Hey Mike. :)
    Glad you enjoyed the video. Christian’s photos, by the nature of where he went to get them and how he took them in his own style and the richness and depth of each image (you really *have* to watch this in HD) plus his heartfelt narration really set the mood for me to “live in” that environment and inspired my understanding and especially ‘feeling’, which is what catalyzes excellent editing.

    Cheers for the mention! :D

  • Mike on March 18th, 2008

    Benny - Christian is what you call multi-faceted. If he was double jointed too he’d probably be dangerous. But yeah, remember when this ‘war’ was all about shock & awe… fucking idiots.

    Bill - Wonderful work, really. I watched this on a big screen last night and it was even better. I hope you guys get to work together again sometime soon.

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