Visual Journalism

In filming ‘Secrecy,’ the challenge wasn’t access, but finding the best ways to make what is usually hidden from view visible, personal and approachable.

Clothes drying in a window in the Darat al Rashid area, where many Iraqi refugees live. Amman, Jordan. April 2007. Photo by © 2008 Lori Grinker The living-sleeping room, in…

Filmmakers decide that, to illuminate the complexities and subtleties of Lebanon's politico-religious tapestry, they had to claim the audience's attention through engaging characters and fast-paced visual units.

‘It seemed to me solid news reporting could no longer do its job.’

All photos by Peter van Agtmael.For the past two and a half years, I have covered war and its consequences in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the United States. As an…

‘Journalists could never be sure they would be alive to cover the next assignment.’

In Liberia, a photojournalist finds death, despair and destruction.

‘…you can feel the energy and the horror and a sense of history washing over you at once.’

‘[O]nline graphics add other dimensions to the stories we report….’

A controversial program for Afghan ‘journalists’ produced a treasured collection of video, audio and photography.