From May to August 2010 I worked at the Blue Ocean Network, a small privately-owned TV channel in Beijing, which aims to provide coverage of China in English (see here and here). Here is a small selection of the packages I produced.
Published audio slideshows
Audio slideshow from the Thai town of Mae Sot and the Burmese town of Myawaddy, separated by the River Moei. Photos from September 2009. This slideshow was published on The National’s website [update: the link no longer works because The National has relaunched its website].
Audio slideshow with photographs from a trip to Yangon, Mandalay and environs, Bagan and Inle Lake in August 2009. Slideshow was published on The National’s website, in the travel section [update: the link no longer works because The National has relaunched its website].
Audio slideshow looking at Beijing as it readied itself for the 2008 Olympic Games, demolishing poor hutong areas and sending migrant workers back to their hometowns. Published on The National’s website.
Audio slideshow looking at Israel’s West Bank Barrier, which cuts deep into the West Bank as defined by the 1967 borders. This slideshow was published on the Electronic Intifada website – their first slideshow. Photos taken in 2006 and 2007, music: Sodade, by Cesaria Evoria.
Unpublished slideshows – Asia
Slideshow of German and German-inspired architecture in the Chinese port city of Qingdao, in Shandong province. Photos taken Dec 2009. Music: Chiang Wei Ku Ku Cai, by Gong Chio Xia.
Photos from Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Laos taken August – October 2009. Music: Supersense, by Paul Hardcastle.
Bangkok’s Khlong Toey district at dawn, as I was blearily walking back from a nightclub. Music: Trapezium, by T-Power
Unpublished slideshows – Middle East
The 2008 Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Muscat, Oman, was thrown into confusion by Israel beginning its war on the Gaza Strip. Music: Awal, by Transglobal Underground.
A rare demonstration sanctioned by the Abu Dhabi authorities protesting Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in january 2009. Additional photos from Gaza and Jerusalem. Music: Meen Irhabi, by DAM.
Photos from all over Abu Dhabi, mostly taken with a small compact camera. Downtown Abu Dhabi is really quite unusual and even a bit alienating at times and I hope this comes across. Music: White Shadows, by Coldplay.
A bus ride from Sharjah through Dubai to Abu Dhabi. Not sure who the music is by.
The Bedouin village of Umm Nasser in the norther Gaza Strip was destroyed in a deadly flood of raw sewage in March 2007. A resident describes life after the catastrophe, dubbed “Nakba 2007“.
On their evening off, Filipinos in Tel Aviv gather at the city’s huge bus station to socialise. Music: Pal Norte, by Calle 13 ft. Orishas.
Trip to Cairo, Alexandria and Dahab in June 2007. Music: Denya, by Souad Massi; Khuttar, by Ilham al Madfai; Noir et Blanc, by Souad Massi and Ismael Lo.
Trip up the half-completed Burj Khalifa – then still know as the Burj Dubai – in Feb 2007. Don’t know who the music is by.
Unpublished slideshows – Europe
Photos from a trip to Transylvania and Bucharest in Romania, including some by James Reinl. Music: Manele, by Catalin Arabu & Minodora
Umbrellas on a rainy day in London, from the Tate Modern to Whitechapel. Music: Raindrops keep falling on my head, by Burt Bacharach.
Good work man…