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 [...]
October 2008
Making a Marriage: The story of a same-sex wedding
by Elizabeth Shemaria, Lisa Pickoff-White, Marnette Federis and Gaelle Faure
This project was published online with the San Francisco Bay Guardian, just before the November 2008 election that passed Proposition 8 in California.
Specific skills I used:
-Served as Project Manager
-Shot and edited the intro page image in photoshop
-Shot, [...]
November 2008
Dollars and Change: Backing Obama in the Bay Area
by Elizabeth Shemaria, Lisa Pickoff-White and Rhyen Coombs
This project was published with Oakland North during the 2008 Presidential Election.
For this project I:
-Researched, designed and produced the section “Cash Flow” using Flash
-Researched and contacted Obama campaign donors to secure on camera interviews
-Conducted interviews for the section”Why [...]
February 2008
The Black Vote in Oakland
by Elizabeth Shemaria, Brian Aguilar, Shimrit Berman, Laurie Burkitt, Sierra Filucci, Amy Jeffries, Kevin Jones, Danielle McNamara, Julia Olmstead, Lisa Pickoff-White and Eric Zassenhaus.
Created on Super Tuesday, February 2008. This project was published by The Oakland Tribune and Yahoo! News, as a Top Story during prime time.
For this project I:
-Assisted [...]
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 [...]