Eighty funerals a day take place at Manila’s North Cemetery, the burial grounds for Filipino presidents and other celebrities. Today the cemetery is also home to roughly 2,000 of the city’s poorest families. In order to bring the story of the breathing citizens of North Cemetery to life, James Chance, the 2010 recipient of the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) Emerging Vision Incentive, will spend the next year photographing the unique community. POYi is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute (RJI).
Pictures of the Year International is honored to return to the Annenberg Space for Photography for a second consecutive year. The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles will host an extended exhibition of POYi award-winning images beginning June 26, 2010. The Annenberg Space for Photography is the premiere venue for the POYi Awards & Education program. POYi is honored to receive support from the Annenberg Foundation for the 67th annual program that includes a three-month public display of POYi's "Visions of Excellence" gallery showing of both print and digital documentary photography.
The 4th Annual RJI Student Competition kicked off December 8th with Hearst Innovation's Matt McCue unveiling the company's eight projects to be solved before a room of over 50 MU students from across campus including journalism, computer science and business. McCue explained that this year's projects were focused on exploring mobile opportunities around Google's Android operating system.
Feedback from the community guided the conversation last month at Alki Arts Center in Seattle. RJI and Journalism that Matters hosted a discussion with a mix of Pacific Northwest news and information experts. The Pacific Northwest (PNW), in particular the Seattle area, has established a track record of innovative collaboration and experimentation. Many news innovators across the nation are watching and taking notes from these early experiments.
