Art Beyond Borders
May 2008
Print element of multimedia package.
YANGON, MYANMAR – Sunlight streams into an art studio on the first floor of a retail complex in Yangon, Myanmar on a Saturday afternoon. Five artists sit on a blue and yellow bamboo mat, smoking cigarettes, chewing betel nut and drinking beer. The artists laugh and speak in Burmese, surrounded [...]
Human Rights Watch | Burma and Cyclone Nargis
July 2008
Burma: Cyclone Donors Should Ensure Transparency & Accountability
Produced by Elizabeth Shemaria
This audio slideshow was produced as part of my work at Human Rights Watch in New York, NY as a Summer 2008, I.F. Stone, Multimedia Fellow.
Specific skills used:
-Selected images from Reuters, AP and other sources
-Interviewed sources, transcribed and edited audio and produced the slideshow [...]
Art Beyond Borders
May 2008
Art Beyond Borders: How Myanmar Art Travels to Thailand and Beyond
by Elizabeth Shemaria
This project was created during a Spring 2008 travel class, Covering Burma, with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
For this project I:
-Reported from Chiang Mai, Thailand and Yangon, Burma(Myanmar)
-Designed the project using Illustrator and Photoshop
-Shot photos and edited the slideshow using [...]
Northgate News | Bay Area Youth Support Burma
September 2007
Bay Area Burmese Youth Give Voices to People of Myanmar
SAN FRANCISCO – Under a grey sky, standing beside the Chinese consulate, 19-year-old Kyaw Naing held a microphone to his lips as he led 200 protesters in repeated cries of “Free Burma” on a recent Friday afternoon. As he does at all such gatherings, the [...]