Multimedia Storytelling and Web-Documentaries - Uwe H. Martin

Date/time: 23 OCT 15-16h

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Educational objective: to introduce new ways to communicate, using different forms of multimedia storytelling

Recent technological innovations have introduced enormous challenges and opportunities in the field of visual communications. Visual journalism is undergoing a deep and radical transformation thanks to the constant growth of the Internet and the spread of portable devices. Photographers  embrace new and compelling ways to portray their subjects and approach their audiences through a whole new spectrum of video channels, websites and apps specifically designed for mobile devices. This conference introduces different forms of Multimedia Storytelling from linear video-slideshows to multi-chapter apps.

About Uwe

Uwe H. Martin is a visual storyteller and multimedia producer at the Bombay Flying Club. He works mainly on long‐term, in‐depth documentary projects that combine photography with documentary film, text and sound. Currently he partners with Frauke Huber on a set of multimedia documentaries about the global commons water, seed and land: White Gold investigates the social and environmental effects of global cotton production; LandRush analyzes the impact of large‐scale agro‐investments on rural economies and land rights. Both series are part of the collaborative art and research project World of Matter. In 2010, Uwe founded Aggreys Dream, a project supporting a slum school in Mombasa, Kenya, which became the blueprint for the establishing of the Freelens Foundation. 
 
Over the years Uwe H. Martin has received numerous recognitions and awards for his work including the German Reporter Award 2011, the Greenpeace Award in 2014 and the Development Media Award 2013. He also serves on the jury of the Lumix Multimedia Award, the CPOY and the Bosch Masterclass "Future of Science Journalism", where he is also part of the faculty. 
 
Uwe studied photojournalism in Hanover, Germany and with the support of a Fulbright grant at the Missouri School of Journalism. Besides his photographic practice Uwe is teaching photography and multimedia storytelling at many different locations around the world among them the Camera Arts program at Lucerne University, Akademie für Publizistik in Hamburg, the Freelens Multimedia Workshops, the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the University for the Arts in Bremen.

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