Faces of the uninsured – Evan Vucci, you have inspired duckrabbit
Written by duckrabbit
“Our original mission was to provide airborn medical relief in the developing world but since 1992 we’ve been heavily involved in providing care here in the United States.”
Stan Brock, founder Remote Area Medical
Please do check out AP photographer Evan Vucci’s stunning multimedia feature about a charity providing medical care in the USA. This is one one of the best, most coherent pieces of visual journalism I’ve ever seen. There is NOTHING detracting from the story.
No crappy voiceover.
No dodgy graphics.
No arty photography.
No reams of text.
No unnecessary music.
And damn doesn’t it make you stop and think.
Now if we could only export Evan’s approach to the way we communicate about people in the developing world then visual journalism might start actually helping to achieve some of the changes needed to make the world a fairer place.
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (3 Comments)
what an amazing programme and what an interesting man. Read this piece about Stan Brock http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/ariel_leve/article6015125.ece
Great find – it’s interesting to contrast Evan’s piece with a similar multimedia piece on exactly the same RAM programme 12 months before: Alexandra Garcia’s “The Healing Fields” for the Washington Post won the Concentra VJ award in 2008 and was pretty damn good. It has minimal voice over, strong narrative, and excellent characters.
http://vimeo.com/3335210
But which one’s best…? I feel a debate coming on…
That’s a great little video you flagged up there.
As for which one’s best? Someone else can dig that hole …