E-flections

from the TED 2007 winners page

James Nachtwey’s Wish:

I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.

Watch the Video Talk

Update:

• TEDsters Jon Kamen, David Rockwell and Stefan Sagmeister acted as the creative trust, developing the idea and the design around the idea, including the slideshow created by Sagmeister and the architecture of the displays, created by Rockwell.
• Clinton Foundation and Partners in Health have been responsible for getting James access to Health Ministries in a number of different countries, allowing him to shoot stories that have been intentionally kept in the dark.
• TEDsters Bob and Colleen Benoit from Mode Studios, have acted as lead producers, helping to package the exhibition model to spread out to global partners. Mode Studios is going to produce the NYC event, which will act as the cornerstone of the global display.
• Scharff Weisberg will provide the production equipment.
• Time Magazine is running this story as an 8-page spread to be released the day of this worldwide event.
• PR Newswire has committed to time on the Reuters screen in Times Square, to create press around the event and to display the images on the evening of OCT 3rd