Kontinent photographer Jacob Zocherman was documenting the Haiti earthquake disaster. See the photo-stories from Haiti by Jacob : Stacey, the miracle child kontinent.se/stories/stacey-the_miracle_child#1 The Batichon family kontinent.se/stories/the_bat…

The world is fascinating. People and cultures inspire us. Sadly, the fast paced lifestyles of our generation result in many not taking the necessary step back to soak in the existing world around us. Our goal with this film is to help viewers further appreciate and take notice of the beauty in life & culture that lies within our world…

…so the next time you notice something that strikes you as interesting, stop for a second, start powering on your camera, think about why it’s unique, and snap the shot before you miss it. Life is extraordinary. Embrace it.

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Production Company: Variable
Creative: Variable
Post Production/Editorial: The Mill

Directors/Cinematographers: Jonathan Bregel & Khalid Mohtaseb @ Variable
Executive Producers: John Rule & Mike Sutton (@MNS1974)
Producer: Tyler Ginter @ Variable
Line Producer: Viraj Velinker
Phantom Tech: Nick Midwig

The Mill: New York City
Post Production Producers: Dee Allen & Alex Maxwell
Editor: Ryan McKenna
Colourist: Sal Malfitano

Original Score/Sound Design: Salomon Ligthelm – ligthelm.tv

Special thanks to the risk takers who helped make this job possible:
Rule Boston Camera – for trusting us with their Phantom Flex – Rule.com
Angenieux – for trusting us with their prototype glass – Angenieux.com

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I’ve been documenting David since he was blinded as a result of a freak bicycling accident 2 years ago. Before the accident robbed him of his sight (David is 100% blind, zero light perception) he was an avid collector of books and an avid reader. His r…

A Lost Revolution? The garment industries factories have been scrutinized for many years and the industry is putting a lot of effort on CSR monitoring the factories. But what happens outside the factory walls? Does this billion dollar industry have any…

On Addu Atoll in the Maldives, Pole and Line fishing is a way of life for fishermen and their families. Catching tuna one by one enables fishermen to drastically reduce bycatch of other marine species and avoid catching young tuna. With this method the…

Made in Brooklyn: The Shoemaker

Frank Catalfumo is a 91 year old shoemaker and repairer in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He first opened the doors to F&C Shoes in 1945 and continues to work five days a week alongside his son Michael. If you’re ever in the area, make sure to stop by the shop and listen to one of Frank’s amazing stories about life in Brooklyn back in the day.

View the photo gallery here: dustincohen.com/STORIES/THE-SHOEMAKER/thumbs/

Directed by Dustin Cohen, Filmed by Dustin Cohen and Michael Hurley, Edited by Bill Kemmler, Color Grading by Simon Biswas.

Cast: Dustin Cohen

Tags: The Shoemaker, Made in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Handmade, Documentary, Frank Catalfumo and Dustin Cohen

Client: Teroforma
Producers: Galen Summer & Caitlin Dourmashkin
Director & Editor: Galen Summer
Director of Photography: Hillary Spera

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Cast: Galen Summer and hillary spera

Tags: Galen Summer, Hillary Spera, Sony EX, Sony, EX-1, EX-3, Letus, documentary and Vermont

Thank You to the Gorman family for opening your lives and allowing us this moment. Its amazing how fragile this life really is. Canon 7D Produced: Lukas Korver Directed/Edited: Eliot Rausch Director of Photography: Lukas Korver, Matt B. Taylor Song: T…

This documentary was one of 5 films nominated for a 2010 Vimeo Award. Directed by Henrik Hansen Director of Photography Adam Richards adamrichardsdp.comCast: Adam RichardsTags: Shinya Kimura, Chabott Engineering, Henrik Hansen, Adam Richards, Do…

A project from bureauofcommongoods.com, Made by Hand is a new short film series celebrating the people who make things by hand—sustainably, locally, and with a love for their craft.

In 1974, Dominican immigrant Don Antonio Martinez started a small shop in New York City selling hand rolled cigars. Thirty-eight years later his son, Jesus, carries on the tradition. The shop combines craftsmanship with community, mixing equal parts work and play.

director-producer KEEF
co-director ELIAS RESSEGATTI
director of photography JOSHUA KRASZEWSKI
editor MATT SHAPIRO
title design MANDY BROWN
composer NATHAN ROSENBERG / DOGHOUSENYC
re-recording mixer NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY
assistant re-recording mixer JOHN GUMAER
sound recordist ROBERT ALBRECHT
additional sound recording JON MOORE

special thanks
JESUS MARTINEZ / MARTINEZ CIGARS
CREW CUTS
MATT DICKEY
ALEX KAHN & MARY WOOD / FRISBIE
DAVID HAYAN / SUPERSONIC CREATIVE

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Cast: Made by Hand

Tags: Documentary, B&W, Black and White, Cigar Shop, Cigars, DIY, Portrait, NYC, Web Film, Jesus Martinez and Cigar Roller

A rogue with an eye for salvage – and the ladies – Ray: A Life Underwater is an affectionate portrait of one man’s deep sea diving career, told through his extraordinary collection of marine artefacts. Like a modern-day pirate, 75-year-old Ray Ives ha…

Follow the year-long story of Five Ten Elite Athlete Dave Graham as he goes after the first ascent of his latest project, Bridge of Ashes. Video by Bearcam Media and the Island.

So it was the Fall of 2011…

Cast: Five Ten and Bearcam Media

Tags: Five Ten, Brand of the Brave, Be Brave, Dave Graham, Las Vegas, climbing, bouldering and rock

This slideshow from the current touring exhibition is comprised of images taken from several stories that form the documentary series ‘Small Town Inertia’.

I’ve followed the lives of several people within a 3 mile radius of the Market Town that I live in Dereham, East Anglia for the past 3 years.

Over the course of working on these stories many situations have arisen and been documented, isolation, poverty, drug abuse, homelessness, self harm, mental illness, juvenile crime, epilepsy though for myself the over riding experience has been one of endurance in spite of the impossible walls life often presents to us. Wall’s that box us in, wall’s that separate us, wall’s to climb to be set free.

This selection of images is a brief look within these documented lives. Lives lived in the U.K. Lives lived in the now. Lives lived within times of much change. As the cultural, political and economic landscape changes these stories depict the final destination for the results of many of those high up and far away decisions and influences. These images depict the full stop of the Welfare State cuts, Housing Benefit cuts, Health cuts, loopholes and failures of systems and what happens when the heart of a community is slowly eroded. These images also depict the lives of those hanging on, bowed yet not broken, of lives where a fight to survive is very real. Fighting apathy, addiction, fighting loneliness, illness all the while clinging to self respect, adrift in the community, in life, but not yet lost.

Your community is exactly that, yours. Everyone has their story. I hope you’ll make time to visit the ‘Small Town Inertia’ site and read the interviews and testimony of the people that have given so much to appear in these images, their stories are all that count.

My great and continual debt is to all those pictured and involved within ‘Small Town Inertia’, I owe you everything.

My great and continual thanks to everyone that has supported this ongoing project, without you it quite simply would not exist.

My great and continual thanks to Hahnemühle and especially the fantastic team at Hahnemühle UK for without your support, again this show could not have taken place.

J.A Mortram October 2012

This series of images is printed upon A3 FineArt Baryta 325 gsm · 100% α-Cellulose · bright white · high-gloss paper.

Small Town Inertia : jamortram.posterous.com

Cast: J A Mortram

Tags: J A Mortram, Documentary, Photography, UK, Exhibition and Small Town Inertia

Hi, I will continue to post here, but my new work has a home at keithloutit.com with updates at:

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Hulk Hogan & Rick Flair duke it out at the Hulkamania tour in Melbourne, Australia this Saturday. This is an early edit released during the tour dates – to become a short film in the near future.

Thanks to Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair and all involved for allowing me to shoot this event.

Shot on Nikon D3 and D3s bodies.

“HIP SQUARE DANCE”
Composed by J Clinton/C Doyle/D Tetau
Performed by The Wolverines
© Orient Pacific Music. Licensed courtesy of Albert Music.
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Cast: Keith Loutit

Tags: tiltshift, Hulk Hogan, Rick Flair, Wrestling, Keith Loutit, Timelapse, HD, Nikon D3 and Nikon D3s

Meet people from northern sweden who’ve found their passion in challenging nature.

There have been some amazing people involved in this project.
Climbers Pär and Stephen.
All the Umeå surfers, Vidar Laestadius and Adam Falklind.
The king of northern FMX Victor Marcusson.

Thank you all!

Cast: Erik Åhman

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We live in Los Angeles and love riding bikes here. These are my friends. Special thanks to Samson Hatae, Max Leonov, Geobbe Orteza, Ace Carretero, Beaver Beavs, Omar Ogues, Simon Lee and Colby Sue. Shot on the Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 50mm f/1….

Husokkupanter i Torggata på Youngstorget i Oslo.

Cast: Kyrre Lien

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Fifteen-year-old Destaye and her husband divide their time between working in the fields and taking care of their 6-month-old baby. At the time of their marriage, when Destaye was age 11, she was still in school and her husband expressed interest in le…

Into the Thicket chronicles the journey of a few skateboarders’ treck into the forests of Vancouver Island to skate a ramp constructed using the surrounding environment and few other materials. Featuring: Chris Haslam Todd Myers Mat Howell sitka.ca F…

A homage to all craftspeople who spend their winters tucked inside their workshops waiting for better weather. Brought to you by: Cast & Salvage /// castandsalvage.com Directed by: Andrew David Watson /// andrewdavidwatson.com Music by: Huma-Huma /…

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Lugi hämtar kraft på Hotell Skansen i Båstad.Cast: Lars DarebergTags: Lugi and Handboll

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Masks pulled over their faces, police-badges out of sight and old rifles hanging over their shoulders. After years of murder and kidnappings, extortion and rape, the farmers in the area of Guerrero, Mexico, are finally striking back against terror. “…

Cast: dougie wallaceTags: Stags Hens & Bunnies and Blackpool 2012 dougie wallace gl

In 2005, Readen’s life was tragically altered while on patrol. At the explosion of a roadside bomb, the humvee he was traveling in rolled over onto his head inflicting a severe TBI. Today, he copes with permanent physical handicaps that include a not…

Andrew Cunningham is a typical 13 year-old. He complains about studying, and spends hours playing on Xbox Live with friends. The only difference is he is in a powered wheelchair. Born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, Andrew relies on his father …