Center For Invesitgative Reporting - Mark Schapiro
A collaboration joining Mark Schapiro -- Senior Correspondent
from the Center for Investigative Reporting and award-winning
environmental journalist -- and renowned photographer Peter Cunningham, on a two-part California agricultural road trip through Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and the Central Valley regions to explore challenges presented by climate change. Water,
salt and heat are creating a new set of problems for today's farmers.
Their focus on California as a microcosm will amplify global
food security issues. A variety of media will be utilized including internet, educational talks, and a photo exhibition with text, to illuminate
the profound changes already underway in California food growing that
have been triggered by climate changes.
California Agricultural Road Trip - Mark Schapiro, Senior Correspondent, Center for Investigative Reporting and Peter Cunningham, Photographer - In their "Pause", Mark Schapiro and photographer Peter Cunningham took two California road trips to explore various food-growing regions -- including the Central Valley, Sonoma, Napa, and Marin counties -- to explore how water, salt and heat are creating a new set of problems for today's farmers. While forging a new way to collaborate as journalist and photographer, Mark and Peter tell the stories of how climate change is altering conditions on the agricultural lands now, in real time, with innovative approaches taken by farmers. They created a new language combining associative pictures paired together with text as a journalistic backup.
Now, a "Seeding Possibilities" grant will enable them to complete and make into a coherent package their work to date through a variety of media -- including printing a limited number of books; with possibilities for dissemination of project elements on the web, in magazines and other publication; and drafting a proposal to expand the project onto the national and international stages. Additionally, they plan one more photo-journalistic California trip to evoke yet uncovered elements to add to this story.
Mark Schapiro of the Center for Investigative Reporting is feature on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle on the changing climate of California agriculture. View the article here.
Grant Partner and investigative journalist Mark Schapiro of the Center For Investigative Reporting (CIR) and KQED Television have co-produced a documentary on the changing climate of California agriculture. To view the multimedia series, visit the CIR site here.
Being a journalist accustomed to stories in far-off foreign places, I did not expect to have the same sensation in traveling to the food-growing regions of California. But taking a journey into the state's agricultural centers with photographer Peter Cunningham, my ITP collaborator, was indeed like a journey into a foreign land. » Read More