Changement

novembre 11, 2011 by · 1 Comment 

Repenser une pratique, regrouper les competences, les centres d’interet, ce n’est jamais simple. Il faut faire en sorte de marier differentes variables pour produire un ensemble coherent et eviter la cacophonie. C’est comme reorganiser l’ensemble du cablage d’un ordinateur. Ca prends du temps et de l’energie, mais au bout du compte, ca vaut la peine de s’y pencher. Ces derniers mois, j’ai du faire converger un certain nombre de choses dans ma vie pro. J’ai du additioner des activitees assez differentes et repenser completement la facon dont je les pratiquais.

Mon amour pour la photo est encore fort, et mon dernier passage a New York m’a rappelle qu’au fond je serai toujours photojournaliste. Je suis alle a New York pour business, pour rencontrer des partenaires potentiels qui seraient interesses par mon project de documentaire transmedia. J’y suis alle egalement pour voir et revoir les professionels de la communaute transmedia avec laquelle je suis en contact depuis maintenant pres de deux ans, avoir quelques retours qualitatifs, quelques analyses de ce projet. J’ai fini par couvrir le mouvement #occupywallstreet qui en etait encore a ses debuts, avec mon ami et partenaire  Jean Nicholas Guillo. Je dois avouer que me retrouver a NY, c’etait un peu comme etre dans un magasin de jouets. Le news est vraiment quelque chose de captivant, d’exitant, et une fois qu’on en a le virus, il est impossible de s’en defaire.

Les autres activitees dans lesquelles j’ai decide de m’investir sont la narration transmedia et le documentaire interactif  (i-docs). C’etait un veritable challenge il y a deux ans de se pencher sur ces nouvelles formes narratives et racrocher les wagons. En plongeant dans toutes les publications trouvables sur le net traitant du sujet – des livres aux blogs en passant par les heures et les heures de video – j’ai decouvert un nouvel univers aux possibilitees illimitees, ou  mon experience de journaliste va, je pense, trouver une place de choix.

It was also a revelation to me. I always felt like a patchwork. As a child and later, as a teenager, I was creating games, inventing stuffs, designing shoes or making short films. As a student, I was more interested in art than in law, working in a local radio time to time, writing novels and taking photos. I’ve never been interested in one field or in one medium and was really tempted to pursue all this different careers at the same time. I was told it was humanly impossible of course.

Il apparait donc que la narration transmedia et le documentaire interactif repondent parfaitement a mon probleme de choix que j’evoquais ici. Du coup j’ai du reorganiser pas mal de choses.
Bulb deviens le blog convergent de mes deux activitees que sont la Photographie (photojournalisme et photo corporate) et les nouvelles formes de narration (transmedia et documentaires interactifs) . Ces deux poles se retrouvent respectivement sur ces deux plateformes (www.gholubowicz.com & www.o2creation.org) mais partagent la meme identitee.

J’ai egalement lance un nouveau site – qui doit etre encore largement complete – qui sera la presence online de « Chewbahat, storytelling lab » une structure que nous avons cree  Jean Nicholas et moi. J’en parlerai plus amplement dans un autre post, mais cette aventure tourne grosso modo autour de valeurs funs, de l’envie de creer et de raconter des histoires.

Comme vous pouvez le voir, le changement prends du temps et beuacoup d’energie. Cette reflexion a pris certainement plus de temps que je n’aurai pense, plus d’energie pour accepter de changer tant de choses, mais je pense etre pret maintenant a aller de nouveau plein pot en avant.

Cheers

Inside the Haiti Earthquake – Insidedisaster.com

novembre 3, 2010 by · 5 Comments 

I went through a very interesting experience this morning when I visited « Insidedisaster.com« , a website where you can actually experience the way Haitians, humanitarians and journalists are dealing with the aftermath of the last earthquake. Produced by PTV Productions‘ Executive producers Andrea Nemtin and Ian Dunbar and by Internet Director Katie McKenna, InsideDisaster.com is neither a news multimedia production, nor a complete corporate assignment but a mix of both enhanced by a simulation game.

The platform is divided into two different part. The first one looks like a traditional website where you can find informations about the earthquake, the response of the humanitarian teams, the recovery process, but also informations humanitarian work and a quiz to evaluate your profile. (here)

The second one is a flash based website, built like a simulation/game, to provide a more immersive experience of what is the life in « Port au Prince » nowadays. As stated on the about page, Insidedisaster.com is

an interactive educational website about the Haiti earthquake and humanitarian work. The website is a companion to the three-part documentary series Inside Disaster, which follows the Red Cross humanitarian response to the January 2010 Haiti earthquake.

InsideDisaster.com combines content and themes from the documentary series with original material shot, photographed, and researched by our web team. The goal of the site is to help users explore the complexities of humanitarian work in the 21st century, as well as the specific challenges and experiences that arose from the aftermath of the Haiti quake.

InsideDisaster.com comes alive before a full documentary which will be aired on tvo in 2011. Here’s the pitch:

Inside Disaster follows international Red Cross disaster relief teams as they mount the largest single-country response in the organization’s history. Six hundred trained humanitarians from over 30 countries are on the ground in Haiti. Embedded in the Red Cross base camp, our camera had unprecedented access to the gripping stories, compelling characters and intense drama that unfolded after Haiti’s horrific quake on January 12 2010. This intense and compelling documentary takes us behind the headlines of a large-scale disaster to document the emergency relief operation from first response to recovery.

The interesting part is not the content itself – although it’s a very deep and well crafted one with a ton of detailed informations – but the sum of these different experiences which, to me, seem to be the first example of a full Transmedia storytelling strategy in the editorial world. We’ll have to wait until the documentary is aired on TVO next year to see if its content is redundant with the online production or not. But if it’s not, the whole experience could be the first of its kind and a strong model for photojournalist considering Transmedia storytelling and Multimedia.

A real Transmedia experience is rare enough to be noticed, and even though « Inside Disaster » would fail to match the Transmedia storytelling criteria, the project would remain nevertheless a significant breakthrough in terms of narrative experience. Sure, some will object that the lack of total objectivity and the blurry frontier between game/information/corporate worlds could be an ethical problem for the journalist and a misguiding information for the public, but I’m not really concerned by that if a clear mention is apposed to the different sections of the website and throughout the narrative line. Judge by yourself and let me know what your reactions are…

Mercedes Fashion Week 2010 – Tracy Reese

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A model walks down the runway during the Tracey Reese fashion show, part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, New York on February 15, 2010 in New York, New York.

Mercedes Fashion Week Fall 2010 – Catherine Malandrino

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Catherine Malandrino by Gerald Holubowicz photographer New YorkFrench Designer Catherine Malandrino at the Malandrino Fall 2010 Fashion Show in Chelsea during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2010 on February 14, 2010 in New York City.

New York Fashion Week Fall 2010 – Atmosphere day 2

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Fashion week by Gerald Holubowicz photographer New YorkMercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2010 day 2 – Atmosphere at the Tent in Bryant Park.

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