“This is not a slideshow, we want to do something more,” says photographer Alex Majoli.
The grandmaster’s of photojournalism did not hold back on using the new possibilities of flash and multimedia to get their stories told. First they started their multimedia department Magnum in Motion (read some behind the scenes information here), now they have a couple of stories online that use flash, combining multimedia, written words and their classic compelling pictures. For sure some of the future of photojournalism will be done by telling stories in this way. And it’s quite interesting to see what they can produce with their power of having some of the greatest photojournalists in their rack together with some use of modern media possibilities. And i like to see that they take the needed step further to combine audioslideshow storytelling with some video to make the story even stronger. Something i guess what takes the best out of every medium to tell the story. And hey, with the new DSLRs it even gets kind of the same look what makes it easier to combine.
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The first big project ‘Access to life’ was made for the Global Fund and sent eight Magnum photographers on a journey in different countries to tell the stories of thirty people before and four month after they started taking their antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Check it out by clicking on the picture below.
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The second project ‘A georgian spring’ again sent ten Magnum photographers on a journey to Georgia to cover the country as they saw it, as individuals, travellers, free from ideas how they should see it or what they should look for.
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The third project ‘The places we live’ in a little bit a exception in this row as it was done only by Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen. He travelled to four cities around the world to cover how people live in the slums of the megacities, visiting places like Kibera, the largest slum in Africa as it is called, taking panorama pictures of the huts the people live in, combined with their stories told by them.
