Thank you to the Michigan Press Photographer's Association for recognizing my work documenting Detroit with the Barry Edmonds Michigan Understanding Award.
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Living With Murder receives an Edward R. Murrow Award.
The Documentary "Living With Murder" gets recognized with a National Edward R. Murrow Award in the online video documentary category of the Radio Television Digital News Association. The award, named after longtime broadcast journalist Edward. R. Murrow, has honored outstanding achievement in electronic journalism – radio, television, and digital media -- since 1971.
The documentary was also recently selected as a finalist in the multimedia category of the New York Photo Awards.
Living With Murder gets recognized
The documentary Living With Murder was recently recognised with the following honors:
Best of Photojournalism: Best use of the web, 3rd place.
National Association of Black Journalists: 2012 Salute to Excelence Digital Media award.
2012 New York Photo Festival: Invitational Multimedia Winner.
We also were nominated for an Emmy by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
2012 National Headliner Awards.
Romain Blanquart, Kathy Kieliszewski and Suzette Hackney took first place in the Online Videography category and Best in Show for Online with their documentary "Living with Murder."
LaTonya Brooks lives with murder. As a homicide detective in the overburdened Detroit police department, she feels the pressure: the weight of too many cases, the frustration of not catching all the killers and the outrage over the random nature of the violence that plagues Detroit's streets.
LaTonya also knows that no one is immune -- her own father was murdered last year in a firebombing.
As a co-worker searches for her father’s killer, LaTonya investigates the murder of DeMonte Thomas, a young father gunned down at he sat in a chair at a neighborhood barbershop.
The same bullet that killed DeMonte also pierced the hearts of his mother, sister, fiancée, brother, daughter and friends.
The year following DeMonte’s death is one of frustration and sorrow for his family. His young daughter wonders if her daddy will ever come home, and his mother wonders how she can go on living without her son.
The sorrow of LaTonya and of DeMonte’s family mirrors that of a city that has lost over 3,300 people to homicide since 2003 -- more than have died among U.S. forces in 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan.
The enormity of Detroit's struggle with homicides can overwhelm people who want to fight back to protect their neighborhoods. Solutions seem to be beyond any one person's ability to make a difference. The frustration and violence leave one of America’s great cities “Living with Murder.”
Credits:
Executive Producers
Romain Blanquart
Kathy Kieliszewski
Producers
Romain Blanquart
Suzette Hackney
Kathy Kieliszewski
Lead reporter
Suzette Hackney
Reporter
Romain Blanquart
Lead videographer
Romain Blanquart
Photographer
Romain Blanquart
Video editor
Romain Blanquart
Script writers
Romain Blanquart
Suzette Hackney
Kathy Kieliszewski
Narrator
Joe Palmer
All songs composed, programmed,
arranged and produced by
Nick Speed for Nix Productions
one more distraction
if you have a little free time have a look at one more distraction.
Photographic observations from the places I pass through.
Living with Murder
Watch the new video documentary i have been working on for the past year, Living with Murder about the impact of homicides in Detroit.
www.freep.com/livingwithmurder
Danny Brown For Fader.
Danny Brown photographed for the May 2011 issue of Fader.
See more photographs of Danny Brown here.
Special thank you to Fader editor and photographer john francis peters ,
and photographer Ross Mantle.
Bob Seger
A photograph I took a few years ago of Bob Seger at a Detroit show is being used as his main promo image for his last tour.
Can't Forget The Motor City
Can't Forget The Motor City featured on WNYC's Studio 360.
Listen!
In Transit. Detroit 2010.
Photographs from In Transit, Detroit 2010.
Click on links below.
Enjoy!
Holland- Dozier- Holland on making the hit "You Keep Me Hangin' On" with The Supremes
See more videos at: www.freep.com/motown
“Capri: il paradiso può attendere...”
Group show
collettiva dei fotografi della galleria
Luciano Bobba, Romain Blanquart, Ludovica Gusti, Marco Querin
dal 24 Luglio al 20 Agosto 2010
Studiò di Giovanna Simonetta
Capri - via San Nicola, 4 - Anacapri -Tel 3336099565
PX3 - 2010 Prix de la Photographie Paris
James
The series Obamanation was awarded first place in the photojournalism other forms category at the 2010 PX3 - Prix de la Photographie Paris. Obamanation was also recognized with a second place in the overall photojournalism category.