New story in production

Yup ... that's right. While Brent is far and away - teaching in Rwanda - Henrik and I are working on a new web documentary. We have been working on an idea on/off for some time now. And yesterday we came back with some 70GB of fresh, raw 5D video material. We have been visiting another part of our tiny country for the past few days and there we have met some very interesting people!

The thing is.. we cannot tell you much about the story because we need to protect our sources. But it's a story that we will be working on for several months to come and we're very excited about it.

Also we have some pretty cool news to share - very soon. Looks like this is going to be another good BFC year!

BFC featured in February issue of PDN

Brent Foster and Poul Madsen from BFC has been interviewed to an article called "Turning NGO's Into Paying Clients". The article has just been published in the new issue of PDN

Brent Foster arrived in Rwanda a few days ago and he will be teaching journalism and multimedia over the next couple of months. Check out his own blog for soon to come updates..

A little update

Things have been kinda slow since Christmas but don't worry. We're still working! Actually Henrik and I are working on a story in Denmark right now about a controversial political topic and it's all pretty exciting. We don't know yet when the story will be finished... but stay tuned.

Our latest NGO project for a Danish/Ethiopian organisation has been finished for some time (Danish) but the English version is still in the pipe explaining why it hasn't been published on our website. I expect this piece to be ready in a few weeks time. This piece was made entierely for the organisation and for fundraising purposes so it might now have the biggest public appeal. It's 11-minutes and it tells the story about the work carried out by a Christian organisation in Addis Ababa.

Tracy Boyer from Innovative Interactivity just posted a little interview with me today about myself and my thoughts about multimedia. Every Friday she will post and interview with an "innovative individual".

Brent Foster will soon be on his way to Rwanda to teach journalism for two months. This is really exciting for all of us. And while Brent is in Kigali teaching away Henrik and I will conduct an intense 3- day workshop in Hamburg, Germany.

Projections of Reality - Moscow, Russia

An international Multimedia exhibition will be taking place in Moscow March 05 - March 28 2010 showcasing multimedia projects based on documentary photo and video material by internationally acclaimed and emerging photographers.

Our story "The Afghan Diaries" will be screened alongside stories by Christopher Anderson, Tim Hetherington, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Paolo Pellegrin other well known photographers.

The exhibition is organized by Objective Reality Foundation and Danish journalist and new media developer Bjarke Myrthu from Storyplanet will be one of the guestspeakers.

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Jharia re-re-re-revisited

A lot of focus on Jharia this past year! A very recent documentary by France24 just came online

IT'S ACCOMPLISHED

The talks are over, now comes the brawl. Nominees for the Swedish POY have been published.

It was interesting and hard work being part of a jury set to select the photographers worthy of a nomination in Sweden this year. A record number of 320 photographers submitted a record number of 4310 images and 56 multimedia productions. As always this covers a wide variety in terms of quality and imagery, and taste may vary, but I'm confident, we found the right winner(s).

Evenso, when the dust settles and the winners are named, I sincerely hope Sweden is up for a discussion about the use of Photoshop in photojournalism like we had in Denmark last year.

It seems to be needed.

Enroute to slaughter

Well, that's what some call it anyway... I'm on my way to Malmö in Sweden as a member of this years jury in the swedish Picture of the Year contest.

4310 images and 57 multimedia pieces awaits the verdict from me and my follow jury members, Espen Rasmussen (VG, Panos), Jessica Mainardis (Getty Images), Stine Larsen (JyllandsPosten) and Anders Birgersson (Re:Public Sevice).

Some long hours, lot's of discussion and some high browed opinons lie ahead and I'm sooo much looking forward to it.

Sunday it's all over and we'll (hopefully) have a winner.