AP Photographers Face Deadline Every Second

Jul 20, 2012   //   by Rachele Kanigel   //   Blog, Perpignan, France, Photography & Photojournalism, Video  //  No Comments

Rachele Kanigel is executive director of ieiMedia and an associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. She directed ieiMedia projects in Perpignan (2010 and 2011) and Urbino (2009) and taught reporting in Cagli in 2007. In 2013 she will direct ieiMedia's international reporting program in Jerusalem.

For an Associated Press photographer documenting a protest, shooting the destruction left by an earthquake or covering the ravages of war, the deadlines never stop. And the adrenaline just keeps pumping. That’s the idea behind a new feature documentary, Deadline Every Second: On Assignment with 12 Associated Press Photojournalists.

The hour-long  video,  shot and produced by my colleague Ken Kobré and co-produced and edited by John Hewitt, takes you behind the scenes of the world’s largest news picture agency as you follow the photographers in eight countries as they document everything from sporting events and the financial crisis to wars and natural disasters.

The film is a must-see for photojournalism students and professional news photographers as well as anyone who has looked at a shocking news photo and said, “Wow.”

Kobré heads the photojournalism program at San Francisco State University  and taught videojournalism in ieiMedia’s Perpignan Project in 2010. His new textbook, Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling, was published this year by Focal Press/Elsevier. 

Hewitt is professor emeritus in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University. He has been producing, editing and shooting documentaries for four decades. His films have been shown on PBS and commercial television and in film festivals throughout the United States.

The film has been screened to enthusiastic audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, UCLA in Los Angeles, and the City Club of San Francisco.  The documentary has also been shown in Bulgaria, Slovenia and France.

Deadline Every Second will air in the San Francisco Bay Area on KQED, Channel 9 on July 24 at 11 p.m. (Pacific Time) after “Frontline,” and on KQED Plus on July 30 at 10 p.m.  Kobré will be interviewed along with several of the photographers featured in the documentary on the Rose Aguilar show “Your Call” Monday, July 23 at 10 a.m. on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz. You can listen online at http://www.yourcallradio.org/KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco and on KUSP 88.9 FM in Santa Cruz Listen online at http://www.yourcallradio.org/

The film is scheduled to air later this year on other PBS stations.

It’s available for purchase on Amazon.com.