
Watertight
Created with 3D printing, 12 miniature portraits of New Yorkers who live alone offer a cross-section of the single occupant household, currently the dominant mode of living in Manhattan.

Making Home: Tai Hang
Explore the experiential and analytical routes in investigating Hong Kong home cultures.

Narrated Reality
A camera, a compass, and a clock narrate images based on location and time using machine intelligence.

Recognized / Not Recognized
A movement study exploring the characteristics of successful news photos.

Charlotte
Players explore the world of the 19th century short story, The Yellow Wall-paper and its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was an important suffragist.

What I Saw in Syria
A journalist gives readers a visceral, intimate sense of what it’s like to report on the Syrian war.

The Island of the Colorblind
Catch a glimpse of a world where flames light a up in black and white, trees have turned pink and a rainbow holds a thousand shades of grey.

100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time
A multimedia project on the hundred photos that have shaped our world. Short films, essays and stories from those who have made the news explain why.

Everyday Everywhere
By uploading photos of everyday life, “ordinary people” from all over the world show the place they live from a different perspective.

Future Cities
Future Cities is a transmedia documentary about five emerging cities. Cities behind the obvious; because we all know Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai are booming.

Selfies
Selfies is a collection of over 9000 portraits taken from Instagram, which featured first in the Dutch national newspaper de Volkskrant.

The Parade
The Parade is an authentic fable. It tells the tales of Cloclo number 18, a cheerleader, of Jonathan, a tuning fan, of Freddy, who breeds fighting cocks and of Gros Bleu, a carrier pigeon.

4Stars Hotel
4Stelle Hotel is a web documentary that recounts a day in the life of the multiethnic community that occupied the abandoned luxury hotel on Via Prenestina in Rome and transformed it into their own home.

Imperial Courts
A serene photo and video portrait of the predominantly African American residents of a housing project in South Los Angeles.

Oh My Gosh, Zilla
Zilla van den Born fabricated the evidence of a five-week trip around Southeast Asia that she never took.

Cucalu: Rediscover Reality
This interactive iPhone game gets its players to take a fresh look at the world around them by having them photograph circles, squares and triangles in their hometown.

I Know Where Your Cat Lives
Uploading photos isn’t as harmless as you might think, as demonstrated by this amusing but unsettling online data project.

Refugee Republic
You think refugees are passive victims? Then spend some time in Domiz in northern Iraq and find out what everyday life in a camp is really like.

Never Alone
This game, inspired by Alaska Native culture, brings the world of Iñupiaq stories alive.

The Sochi Project
This multimedia slow journalism project tells the shadow narrative to the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, which is surrounded by conflict zones. It brings together long reads, photo series and TV reports.

Hidden Wounds Interactive
An interactive version of a subdued video about the lives of war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

A Short History of the Highrise
This latest episode in a multi-annual documentary project highlights the history of the vertical living, from the Tower of Babel to the skyscrapers in New York.

Fort McMoney
A groundbreaking fusion of documentary and video game in which visitors play the detective, unraveling the interests that lurk behind the Canadian oil industry

The Last Hunt
This interactive photo book tells the story of Antonio “Pit” Allard, who retreats for the very last time into the Canadian wilderness to hunt.

Burn Out
This shocking web documentary captures the recent wave of suicides in France, which is on the verge of a collective burnout.

Firestorm
Firestorm is an immersive, media-rich experience about a small Tasmanian town that was devastated by a catastrophic bushfire on January 4, 2013.

Garedunord.net
Gare du nord is the biggest of Europe.500.000 persons cross it every day, coming from Paris, Lille, London, Amsterdam.

Passing Stanger – The East Village Poetry Walk
Passing Stranger – The East Village Poetry Walk is an audio tour of poetry related sites in New York City’s East Village.

Moments of Innovation
When Documentary and Technology Converge

Pointer Pointer
A simple but effective online timewaster: stop your cursor somewhere on the screen and a picture is loaded in which someone points right back at it.

Gol! Ukraine
In 12 short films, hosts Oleg and Katya take us on a tour of Ukraine, which hosted the European Soccer Cup last summer.

MAFI.tv – Filmic Map of a Country
A new generation of Chilean filmmakers joins forces on this online platform with snapshots of everyday goings-on in Chile.

Cowbird
“The most beautiful place in the world to tell stories”: a platform where users can share their life stories in pictures, text and audio

Bear 71
Wildlife in Banff National Park from the perspective of a grizzly bear and that of the park rangers watching her 24 hours a day.

Alma, a Tale of Violence
This interactive tablet documentary allows you to swipe back and forth between a no-frills presentation of the violent confessions of former gang member Alma and an alternate image stream that puts it all in context.

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.

We Choose the Moon
An interactive recreation of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.

Filmmaker in Residence
Katerina Cizek collaborates with doctors and patients to capture the stories of a Toronto hospital in the National Film Board of Canada’s pioneering Filmmaker in Residence initiative.

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.

One in 8 Million
A series of miniature portraits in sound and photographs; each introduces just one of the more than eight million inhabitants of New York City.

Mortified
This multimedia project allows visitors to upload embarrassing adolescent treasures such as diary extracts, poems, and photographs.

The Whale Hunt
Photographs are presented as a framework to tell the moment-to-moment story of a whale hunt in Northern Alaska.

Flick Radio
A documentary maker gets lost in the world’s most popular photosharing website.

Exactitudes
A huge photographic collection of meticuously documented human identities and the similarities between them.

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.

One Photo a Day Projects
A collection of videos and websites by people documenting themselves, making one photo a day for many years in a row.

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.