Kashing In On Multimedia? Let's Hope So...

Ed Kashi's striking flipbook-style multimedia presentation 'Kurdistan' on MSNBC.com is causing a bit of a stir, but as its review in PDN suggests, the presentation is very arresting, but not as revolutionary as some would perhaps suggest...I wrote about similar presentations a while back, and of course the technique was first used by one of photography's pioneers, Eadweard Muybridge.

What is revolutionary however, was that MSNBC.com acquired the piece in an online auction organised by MediaStorm, the multimedia website and production studio headed by Brian Storm, who co-edited and constructed the piece.

It's proved there is an embryonic market developing for quality in-depth multimedia stories, which offers up a potential new income stream, not to mention a new audience for documentary photojournalism, as the audience and income withers in the printed sphere.

It also shows photographers are beginning to explore aspects of the Web which print - or video for that matter - doesn't have...

Comments

[Patrick Yen]

What I love about the piece is its human element. It manages to communicate so much culture and so much humanity with more of a visual emphasis that effectively transcends linguistic barriers. I believe approaches like this are essential for reforming journalism for a global era.