look: Love in the first person

December 13, 2007

I’ve had Media Storm in my bookmarks for some time now but I haven’t checked it out for a while. A link on Rob Galbraith’s site prompted me to do so and I can thoroughly recommend that you do the same.

Media Storm presents cross-media, primarily visual, essays. They say they are a multi-media production outfit. But I beg to differ. The term “multi-media” seems too old hat, seems to connote an otherness from what we actually get. In these times we are exposed, accustomed, and pretty damned literate in all the strands of visual and audio delivery. So whilst you are watching it you really have a great sensitivity to how the strands of each media are being used and played against one another. It is not some gumbo stew of multi-anything, served in a plate and licked clean with a lump of bread.

The last time I was at the Media Storm site I looked at Iraqui Kurdistan by Ed Kashi and since then there have been added more recent pieces looking at other aspects of conflict. So this time I thought I’d recommend a different type of essay altogether…. “Love in the first person” is an autobiographic piece by a young photographer and his newly pregnant wife as they find their way into adulthood.

link: Media Storm “Love in the first person”

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