Jews United for Justice
Client: Jews United for Justice
Role: Director of Photography, Editor
Project: Promotional video for JUFJ’s annual fundraiser, highlighting the successful community mobilization efforts of this DC-based organization.
Benefits of Urban Forests
Client: American Forests
Production Team: Digital Development Communications
Role: Photographer, Assistant Producer (Milwaukee & Baltimore)
Project: 5-minute advocacy video profiling urban arborists and the importance of sustaining green spaces in cities across the USA.
Microfinance in the Caribbean
Client: The Inter-American Development Bank
Production Team: All Rise Films
Role: Field Producer (Suriname & Belize)
Project: Short documentary about award-winning Caribbean microfinance institutions and how they have benefited from the IADB’s Carib-CAP program.
Tyler Prize for Environment Achievement
Client: The University of Southern California (Tyler Prize)
Production Team: Burness Communications
Role: Field Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Project: Two profiles of environmental scientists on their groundbreaking work studying indoor and outdoor air pollution. Featured at the annual Tyler Prize awards, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for environmental science.
Faith in Action DC
Working in close collaboration with the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington (IFC), over the coming year I will be photographing the work of diverse religious institutions, groups, and individuals who are serving the DC area. The goal of this project, Faith in Action DC, is to celebrate the service efforts of local people of faith, garner increased attention for our communities’ achievements, and promote the Washington D.C. area as a national and international model of interfaith cooperation for the common good.
GloboMaestro NYC
Client: GloboMaestro
Role: Director of Photography, Editor
Project: A set of videos for the travel website Globo Maestro profiling must-see destinations around New York City, including chef Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster soul food restaurant in Harlem and The Frick Museum, amongst others.
Race Amity: America’s Other Tradition
Client: The National Center for Race Amity at Wheelock College
Role: Director of Photography (Boston, Philadelphia, DC)
Project: Short documentary on the history of inter-racial cooperative efforts in the United States, which premiered at the 2011 Race Amity Conference in Boston.
What’s Your Calling: Ruth Forman
For the PBS documentary entitled The Calling, which follows a group of youth from different religious backgrounds striving to lead lives of service in line with their chosen spiritual paths, the doc’s producers have created a terrific website that profiles a diverse collection of people who share their opinions about what it means to follow their calling.
Poet & children’s book author Ruth Forman was recently invited to be featured.
GEMAP Liberia
Client: IBI International / USAID
Production Team: Digital Development Communications
Role: Producer
Project: Program wrap-up video about the USAID-funded Government and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) in Liberia. The video highlights improvements made to several government institutions and state-owned enterprises since the end of the civil war in this West African republic, such as the Ministry of Finance, the National Port Authority, and Roberts International Airport.
Interview with Mitsugi Saotome Sensei of Aikido Shobukan
Saotome Sensei is the founder of Aikido Shobukan Dojo in Washington D.C. He is a consummate artist, skilled not only in the martial arts, but as a textile designer, sculptor, author, and painter as well.
IntraHealth Kenya
Client: IntraHealth Production Team: Digital Development Communications. Role: Director of Photography Project: A short advocacy video documenting improvements made torural health facilities in Western Kenya, specifically in the Kisumu and Eldoret regions. Here is an assembly of images from that project. Kenya Assembly from DDC International on Vimeo.
Eric Harper – Cura
Eric Harper performs a live version of ‘Cura’ from his 2008 album ‘Romper a Madrugada’. Eric Harper – Cura from Jack On the Road on Vimeo.
‘Abdúl-Bahá DC Tour 2009
This segment documents a tour of sites visited by ‘Abdu’l-Baha, son of Baha’u’llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha’i Faith, during his historic visit to Washington D.C. in 1912. The tour ends with the annual Color of Worship celebration at Howard University. Produced in April 2009 for Noveen TV ‘Abdu’l-Baha DC Tour from Jack On the [...]
Blue Scholars
Interview with Seattle hip hop duo Blue Scholars for Baha’i International TV & Radio Service, July 2008. Blue Scholars from Jack On the Road on Vimeo.