Photo Opportunities
We travel, we see a monument, we take a picture.
National Parks Project
National Parks Project is a collaborative film, music, TV and new media project on Canada’s National Parks. Like never before.
Today
A simple ritual of taking one photo each day and posting it online, along with a short story, beginning the day Jonathan Harris turned 30.
9-eyes
9-eyes curates images found on Google Maps Street View
Holy Mountain
Exploring people’s relationship to the sacred through the city’s landmark, Mount Royal.
Big Stories, Small Towns
An interactive documentary project connecting local stories and communities in South Australia.
Africa To Australia
Africa to Australia is an interactive documentary that follows the stories of Africans who came to Australia.
Am Not Was
Multimedia piece about an amnesiac who is unable to recognize faces.
Dear Photograph
Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.
Soul of Athens 2011
Soul of Athens 2011 – Our Dreams Are Different – is a multimedia project showcasing different stories that examine the changing American Dream.
Goa Hippy Tribe
Goa hippies travel to the Indian beach paradise Anjuna Beach – the place where it all began.
The Zone
A sensory journey into the heart of Tchernobyl’s exclusion zone – the forbidden area around the nuclear power plant.
The Prism: Krisis Greece 2011
Everything that newspapers and TV ignore is dealt with here, in 27 short films by retrained photojournalists, who capture crisis-ridden Greece in a creative, resolute way.
Via PanAm
Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen is traveling from the southern tip of Chile to the very north of Alaska, creating multimedia photo stories along the way.
Shit My Kids Ruined
What’ve your beloved kids ruined? Perhaps your couch? Your TV? Your marriage? Your dreams?
Condition One
Choose your own field of vision in the images of a bloody protest in pre-revolutionary Libya or a chaotic police arrest on the streets of New Orleans.
The Burning House
What would you rescue if your house was on fire?
New York Minute
New York Minute paints an original and interactive portrait of the legendary hometown of hip-hop.
This Land
Interactive snowmobile road trip across 2,000 inhospitable kilometers of Northern Canada by filmmaker Dianne Whelan.
Soul of Athens
Using photographs, text, audio, and film, audio-visual students from the small midwestern American town of Athens spotlight some of the city’s exceptional inhabitants and locations: the tattoo artist, the fashion doll, the banks of the Ohio River.
Les Communes de Paris
A choice-based, digital tour of Paris, brought to you personally by the residents of the city’s rich, diverse and disparate neighbourhoods.
Young Me/Now Me
Placed together, a picture from a scrapbook and a careful reconstruction of it 20, 30 or 40 years later tell an enormous tale.
Awkward Family Photos
A spectacularly popular website where visitors share their awkward family photos with one another and with the rest of the world: clumsy photos of gawky people in embarrassing situations.
Kenk
Filmed footage of bicycle thief and Slovenian immigrant Igor Kenk is transformed into a remarkable interactive, black-and-white comic book over documentary audio footage.
HIGHRISE/Out My Window
Kickoff to the extensive documentary project Highrise, which delves behind the myriad high-rise apartment windows that tower into the urban skylines of the world.
Welcome to Pine Point
A multimedia portrait of the disappeared Canadian mining settlement of Pine Point by one of its former residents.
The Ninth Floor
This photo documentary with audio commentary spends three years in the lives of heroin addicts residing in a Manhattan apartment building.
Driftless: Stories from Iowa
Affectionate but unpitying black-and-white images capture the tough existence of people still living in declining rural areas of Iowa.
Filmmaker in Residence
Pilot project for the National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker in Residence program, in which Katerina Cizek was placed “in residence” at the St. Michael Hospital in Toronto.
Days with My Father
A poignant selection of photographs and text form a diary of the last years in the life of photographer Phillip Toledano’s father.
Mortified
This multimedia project allows visitors to upload embarrassing adolescent treasures such as diary extracts, poems, and photographs.
Flick Radio
A documentary maker gets lost in the world’s most popular photosharing website.
Journey to the End of Coal
An educational webdocumentary that lets viewers investigate the world of Chinese coal miners who risk their lives in state-owned and private coal plants. 300 photographs and many hours of video and sound were used to create a striking immersive environment.
Live Cinema Event: The Soft Atlas with Jan Rothuizen
Live event celebrating the unique work of documentary artist Jan Rothuizen. with performances by Hans Aarsman, Dirk van Weelden and the launch of Rothuizen’s latest book: The Soft Atlas of the Netherlands
Live Cinema Event: Out on the Streets
Digital documentary pioneers turn their interactive documentary into a live cinema event. With Insitu and The Prism: Krisis Greece 2011, both selected for the IDFA DocLab Competition.
Live Cinema Event: Sex, Data & Goa
Live screening of two interactive web documentaries from the DocLab Competition Program: Goa Hippy Tribe and The Sexperience 1000
PhotoStories Conference, 19-21 May, Rotterdam
IDFA DocLab is organising partner of PhotoStories, a new conference about webdocumentary and photography-based multimedia storytelling.
