For your trip to East Harlem, please take a look at Field Guide_Prof_Gardner.
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Portraits of Place
Portraits of Place sees that it’s easy to pass judgment on a place. Run-down houses probably mean mass-foreclosure. A bustling shopping street probably means financial wealth. A community garden probably signifies an engaged neighborhood. Someone who spends the day on a corner is probably homeless. For this project, CoLab is seeking story series that take a closer look than probably.
http://colabradio.mit.edu/portraits-of-place/
Please see this video for a good example of what can be done with still photos and a voiceover: http://colabradio.mit.edu/whos-on-broad-felix-at-f-f-botanical/
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Here is an interesting piece in the Times that uses four streams of video footage to show change over time in New Orlean’s Ninth Ward:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/08/27/us/lower9th-5year-anniversary.html?ref=us
Also, Jim Lo Scalzo has a nice piece in the Times about the Salton Sea that uses historical and contemporary photographs to show change over time. It’s worth looking at, but what I wanted to point you to is his piece on New Orleans that is mentioned in the Times article. This reminded me of our discussion of how the ordinary sounds of a neighborhood could factor into a photo essay: http://vimeo.com/5945963
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This semester we will use this website as a model for our final project:
