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Welcome to Digital Vision Network Consulting
Since 2000, we have been one of the foremost information resources on the Web for 21st century
visual journalists and storytellers.
The primary member of Digital Vision Network is
The Digital Journalist Web
magazine, which was launched by Dirck Halstead in September 1997. It was
followed two years later by Roger Richards’ site
The Digital Filmmaker in autumn
1999. Both Web sites came together to form the
Digital Vision Network in May 2000, and
have since been joined by several other top sites in the field of visual
journalism.
One of the main objectives of Digital Vision Network is providing information
and education on visual multimedia storytelling. Foremost in this effort are the
Platypus Workshops, which since March 1999 have trained some of the world’s
foremost visual journalists and filmmakers of the 21st century. They include
Pulitzer Prize winners David Leeson, Olga Shalygin, Eugene Louie and Kim
Komenich. After the first Platypus class of 1999 David Turnley, also a Pulitzer
winner and his twin brother, the award-winning photographer Peter Turnley, Don
Doll, S.J., and William Campbell all went on to produce feature stories for ABC
News’ Nightline shortly after attending the Platypus. Other Platypus graduates
of note include 2006 Academy Award nominee (documentary filmmaking) Kimberly
Acquaro, and comedian/TV producer/photographer Drew Carey.
Digital Vision Network staff provide training at the two annual Platypus
Workshops, held in spring at Brooks Institute of Photography in Ventura,
California, and in summer at the Maine Photographic Workshops. Due to increasing
demand for training in this field,
Digital Vision Network
consultants now offer weekend and one day seminars to introduce individuals and
newspaper and magazine staffers to the world of New Media production. We also
now provide personal and targeted consultations to
publications and individuals to empower them to quickly and efficiently begin
producing powerful visual multimedia stories.
Digital Vision Network consultants are:
Roger M. Richards is the Editor and Publisher of
Digital Vision Network and
The Digital Filmmaker. He is also
the Multimedia Editor/Producer at the
Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. Richards main focus now is producing
visual essays combining still images and video and digital short films for the
Web. His began his photojournalism career in 1979, focusing on political and
social themes in the Caribbean, the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua and
then joining the Gamma Liaison photo agency in 1988. Based in Miami and then
Europe, his work with the agency included the US invasion of Panama, political
upheaval in Haiti, civil war in Croatia and the siege of Sarajevo. He is a
former Associated Press photo bureau chief in Bogota, Colombia, and a staff
photographer at the Washington Times in Washington, DC, from 1997-2000. He is
the recipient of numerous awards from the National Press Photographers'
Association, the White House News Photographers' Association, the Society of
Professional Journalists and the Virginia News Photographers Association. He
became a digital filmmaker in 1998, focusing on projects about war in the
Balkans. He was awarded the first White House News Photographers' Association
sabbatical grant for videojournalism in 2000 and was one of the first graduates
of the famous Platypus Workshop that trains photojournalists how to become
digital filmmakers and videojournalists. He is now a member of the workshop
faculty.
Contact Information:
Roger Richards (757)348-9591
rmr@dvnetwork.net
Dirck Halstead is the Editor and Publisher of
The Digital Journalist. Dirck
started in photojournalism when he was in High School. At the age of 17, he
became LIFE Magazine's youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan
Civil War. (LIFE had no idea how old he was). After attending Haverford College,
he went on to work for UPI for more than 15 years, covering stories around the
world. In 1972 he accepted a contract for Time Magazine, and for the next 29
years covered the White House for them. In 1992 he played an instrumental part
in the formation of Video News International (VNI), which started what is now
the Platypus movement, allowing still photojournalists to cross the barrier
between print and television. He has won the NPPA Picture of the Year award
twice, the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon, and
two Eisies.
Contact Information:
Dirck Halstead (512)475-4675
dhalstead@mac.com
PF Bentley is a photojournalist/digital filmmaker who
specializes in covering domestic and international politics. Bentley is known
and respected throughout the print and broadcast community for earning
unprecedented access to presidential candidates, Heads of State, and Capitol
Hill. He was the first photojournalist to shoot on the House floor while in
session. Bentley was behind the scenes with President Bill Clinton for his last
week in office, Inauguration Day, January 20, 2001, and his last trip on Air
Force One to his new life as “Citizen Clinton”.
Bentley returned to Washington after September 11, 2001 for NEWSWEEK Magazine to
be with U.S. lawmakers behind the scenes on Capitol Hill in the wake of the
terrorist attacks and Anthrax crisis. Included in this coverage was his widely
acclaimed photograph of President Bush in prayer before speaking to a Joint
Session of Congress on September 20. In August 2001 he produced and filmed an
ABC-TV "Nightline" about Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. This was his third
"Nightline" broadcast.
He has covered every U.S. presidential campaign and photographed every serious
presidential contender since 1980 including Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bob
Dole, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Geraldine Ferraro, Jesse Jackson, John
Glenn, Al Gore, Dick Gephardt, Pat Buchanan, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton.
Bentley grew up in Hawaii and graduated from the University of Hawaii in
Honolulu with a B.Ed. degree in 1975. He is also a member of the faculty of the
Platypus Workshop. When not traveling he resides in New York and on the Big
Island of Hawaii with his wife, publicist, Cathy Saypol.
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