Tag: Jonah Kessel

Back in Burma, with more light: Jonah Kessel reviews the Westcott Ice Light

Back in Burma, with more light: Jonah Kessel reviews the Westcott Ice Light – Newsshooter

Guest Post by Jonah Kessel: We are working in an era where technology is fueling our passion to create powerful multimedia. However, the market is so saturated with constantly evolving technology that, in my short career, I’ve found that the gear purchase

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Today, I’m six months down the road from a purchase I made this year at NAB, and I’m just as excited about it today as I was then. It’s the Ice Light from Westcott.

October 7, 2013
How should we judge the best multimedia? An open letter to World Press Photo from Jonah Kessel

How should we judge the best multimedia? An open letter to World Press Photo from Jonah Kessel – Newsshooter

By contributor Jonah Kessel and edited by site editor Dan Chung: The World Press Photo multimedia competition is now a few years old. It seeks to recognise photojournalists and multimedia professionals for excellence in this field. The criteria used to ju

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The World Press Photo multimedia competition is now a few years old. It seeks to recognise photojournalists and multimedia professionals for excellence in this field. The criteria used to judge these awards have been controversial and their definition of multimedia for the purposes of this contest has varied. After visiting their headquarters, our contributor Jonah Kessel decided to send them this open letter:

October 7, 2013
Jonah Kessel on Breaking Habits, Pushing Form & Raising Questions

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Reading through Davis’ commandments I thought about the more than 60 videos or multimedia pieces I had made at that time and realized I had largely been a devoted follower of this clumsily named digital religion. Furthermore, in many ways, I agreed with him. And for the last year I’ve been thinking about the consequences of making multimedia productions with this formula and trying to find ways to avoid it.

November 11, 2012
Jonah Kessel captures unusual Chinese protests in Wukan for the NYT – with Canon 60D and 5D mkII

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Using a fat Chinese man, a large backpack, a baseball cap and the hood from my sweatshirt, I attempted to hide myself.

I was sandwiched in between the beefy man and a f-stop Satori backpack jammed with gear on the rear of his motorcycle. He drove me down a dark dirt road in the middle of the night near the uniquely autonomous village of Wukan, Guangdong Province, China.

I was hiding from police and those who might not want attention drawn to the small village of about 13,000 people.

December 28, 2011