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I had the pleasure of going to the Founders School in Essex the other day to shoot a mock Ellis Island scenario that the teachers and parents had created for the fifth grade class. I bumped into one of my good friends from high school since she is the class teacher - so that was cool. I do love how much I run into old faces and acquaintances around here - that was certainly something I never experienced when I was shooting in Boston. Some of my old subjects even remember me and will come up and say hi, thank me for the story or just ask "what's new?" I ran into the subject of my identity theft story that ran several weeks ago and she was very happy with the coverage and with my web project as well as it allowed her to communicate with people out in California which is certainly out of the Free Press circulation. :)

But back to immigration. These kids went all out for this project! The costumes, the passports, the accents and even some back stories as well - they never stepped out of character and that goes for the parent volunteers, too. I was busy shooting photos for this of course but also keeping an ear open for good audio. The multimedia work we do certainly makes the average shoot more hectic and you really have to juggle it all but I really love it. The most mundane, run-of-the-mill story can take on so much life with a great audio selection. Luckily, for this assignment, the photos were strong enough on their own so the audio was just the cherry on the sundae.

Click the link below to watch the multimedia project and as always....enjoy!
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/legacy/slideshows/041608immigration/index.html