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Zines and Labyrinths: Slow Media for Fast Times

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By Ben Brody
| The GroundTruth Project
Less than a mile from where I grew up north of Boston, Connors Farm hosts a popular 7-acre corn maze in the fall. Normally this is of interest only to locals, but in 2011, the farm made national news after a family called 911 when they couldn’t find their way out in a timely manner. They were found by police 25 feet from the parking lot.
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How Black Voice News’ Aryana Noroozi Captures the Humanity of Unhoused People Through Empathetic Photojournalism

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By Ben Brody
| The GroundTruth Project
When you look at a photograph, you are essentially looking through the eyes of the photographer as they point something out. Their sense of artistry and structure should be clear to see, but also their biases, and their power dynamic with their subjects. In southern California’s Riverside, Report for America corps member and CatchLight fellow Aryana Noroozi has been reporting on the city’s unhoused population for Black Voice News.
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The personal and community allure of “the third place”

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By Ben Brody
| The GroundTruth Project
Photojournalists often will move kinetically through a scene. Like a postmodern dancer interpreting society’s hunger for visual stimuli, they’ll get close to their subjects, then quickly move far away, take a vertical for the magazine cover, then back to horizontals, leap down to get a low shot, climb to a high shot, a detail, a portrait, a left-facing action shot, then right. To make a picture essay have rhythm and flow, it needs variety.
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