SolarFest!

Just got back from an excursion to SolarFest! Stay tuned for the accompanying article with Vermont Commons!

From Photos to Cartoons: Journalism/Documentary Takes New Form

Looking through a recent issue of Vermont's 7Days weekly newspaper, I was delighted to see one of my communities favorite publications embrace a different form of storytelling and communication. In a decidedly novel approach, the 7Days staff created a "cartoon issue" that utilized visual storytelling to communicate on everything from music reviews, local politics, and human rights. Needless to say, I took notes on how the cartoonists assembled their compositions, panels, and layouts. I took notes on pretty much every impressive thing they did (of which there were many).
Paging through the issue I noticed this story on my friend Danilo Lopez.

Reading through the panels I noticed something familiar. The second panel of the second row, depicts Danilo being loaded into a Border Patrol vehicle during the very incident that I made this image:

More than anything, I want to express my creative delight at seeing one of my images potentially being used as a jumping off point for more impactful and graceful storytelling about issues that hold vital significance to the community. Well done Andy Bromage (who was also present during the incident), Jen Sorensen, and everyone else who contributed to this tremendously successful marriage of journalism and visual storytelling.

Best,

Dylan Kelley


For more work by Dylan Kelley visit his website, Facebook page, column at Vermont Commons, and follow Dylan on Twitter via @LivefromGround.

Tense Community Hearing in Shoreham

Part of an ongoing project about the VT Gas pipeline through Addison County, VT; this series of pictures comes from an especially tense community meeting in the tiny town of Shoreham, Vermont. Wary of the ecological and economic costs of constructing a natural gas pipeline through their community for the sake of a single business, Shoreham residents ask tough questions of community leadership and management of International Paper's Ticonderoga Mill.

For more work by Dylan Kelley visit his website, Vermont Commons blog, Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter via @LiveFromGround.

Outhouse races???

On the same parade grounds that witnessed dragons prowling around (see "Here Be Dragons" entry), I was also fortunate enough to photograph the Vermont Workers' Center compete with their "Healthcare is a Human Right/Put People First" bedecked outhouse. Curious, very curious.

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Here Be Dragons!

While working on a continuing project about the proposed VT Gas pipeline through Addison County, Vermont; I managed to find myself photographing a growling "pipeline dragon" in Bristol, VT's 4th of July parade (click to enlarge).  Fun times!