Todd Heisler’s essay on the “Gold Coats”, a group of inmates at the California Men’s Colony, help aging inmates who are suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s. Many of the Gold Coats are serving life sentences.
See the essay on the NYT Lens Blog (Behind Bars and Beginning to Forget).
BURN Magazine is featuring a project by Spanish photojournalist Sebastian Liste about an abandoned chocolate factory in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where sixty families live in poverty. Previously these families lived in the dangerous streets of the city until they decided to come together and occupy the factory. You can…
Documenting what Americans throws out. by Jenna Isaacson Pfueller All Thrifty States aims to document in stills, audio and video the people, scenes and items found in thrift stores nationwide. The project hopes to provide a window into the regional selections of used goods, the current economic climate in America, the bread…
The newly re-launched American-Journal.org has a new look at photojournalist Melissa Lyttle’s “Girl in the Window” story. Three years after the story ran in the St. Petersburg Times, Lyttle and writer Lane DeGregory revisited the family to find out what’s changed, and perhaps, more importantly, what hasn…
In 2008, Josh Meltzer, staff photographer and multimedia journalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to work and teach in Mexico. There he created a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico. A selection of his work from his Fulbright year won the …
American-Journal.org has an essay by Pete Marovich and a story by Jenny Jones about the Bill Pickett Rodeo and the Legacy of the Black Cowboy. See the essay at www.american-journal.org.…
