Brett Myers is an award winning producer for Youth Radio. His radio work airs regularly on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, as well as APM's Marketplace. Before coming to Youth Radio in July of 2006, Brett contributed to a rare organizational Peabody Award at StoryCorps, and worked with Sound Portraits Productions and The Kitchen Sisters. He studied photography and imaging at NYU, and was named one of the top 25 photographers under the age of 25 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He loves his wife Rachel Orkand and his mutt Sophie.
Since the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida, racial profiling has been the topic of conversations from the floor of Congress to dinner tables across the county, particularly in regards to safety of young black men.
Back in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to life without parole for any crimes besides murder is cruel and unusual punishment.This week the high court took another look at life in prison, except this time for juveniles under the age of 14 convicted of homicide.
Long stigmatized as a “ghetto beach,” Orchard Beach is a mile long sliver of constructed landscape in The Bronx. Wayne Lawrence has spent the last four years photographing there. Built in the 1930, He says the “The Bronx Riviera” has served as a workingman’s oasis for generations of families living in an environment defined by struggle.
Conflict photographer Benjamin Lowy is in Libya on assignment for GQ. Draped in heavy digital cameras and surrounded by chaos, Lowy occasionally pulls out his iPhone, using it almost as a palate cleanser. “It has allowed me to rediscover the excitement of seeing imperfections and happy accidents.” He says it allows him to update his Tumblr immediately from the field, “creating a modern and efficient workflow for the most inefficient of pursuits – self expression.”
Kay Wang was a strong-willed grandmother who was reluctantly taken to a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. Though Kay resisted, she still had stories to tell—from disobeying her mother and rebuffing suitors while growing up in China to late-life adventures as a detective for Bloomingdale’s department store.
“Chicky boom boom. My name’s Zach.” That’s how Freaker inventor Zach Crain starts the freaking amazing promotional video used to raise of $60K on Kickstarter. Freaker is better looking, better performing beer koozie. In fact, the knitted insulation sock fits over everything from beer cans and bottles to huge jugs of juice. The product is cool. The video marketing is amazing.
Those of us in North America can’t see it in the sky, because it’s daytime, but we can watch the full lunar eclipse live online, thanks to SLOOH Space Camera and Google.
Great slideshow of Portuguese fishermen from photographer Paul Alegria.
It’s been 30 years since HIV/AIDS was first discovered. Turnstyle’s Asha Richardson reports on how college-age young people feel about a disease they’ve grown up knowing about their whole lives.
When Jonathan Harris turned 30, he began taking one photo per day and posting them online. Harris calls the project “Today,” and he maintained the effort for 440 days. The resulting images read like a diary of his life. In a beautiful new video made by Scott Thrift, Harris describes his thinking behind the work.
