All in a day's work
This was a busy summer for me. I produced two stories, “Forest of Ecstasy” airing October 28 and "Cocaine Mafia" airing December 9. I traveled to Cambodia with Adam Yamaguchi where we traipsed around a leech infested forest in search of secret factories where rare trees are harvested to make “ecstasy oil”.
Here's a sneak peek from the show:
I barely had time to unpack and repack when I was off to Italy where I met up with Christof Putzel to investigate one of Europe’s largest hubs for cocaine trafficking, a town just outside of Naples, Italy, called Castel Volturno. I spend most of my time on shoots looking through the viewfinder and filming. I love making images and hate being the center of attention so this is the perfect gig for me. But recently, I looked for some photos of myself in professional action—perhaps a shot of me hacking my way through the rainforest with some armed Cambodian forest rangers and realized I never got them. I’m usually so busy trying to make sure I capture the story unfolding in front of me, that I rarely stop to ask someone to take a keepsake photo of me. So going through my digital camera, I didn’t have much luck in finding the quintessential “badass” producer shot. Instead what I found was this classic snapshot of me, hanging out in a sun-drenched piazza with some old Italian gents. It was one of our last days of filming in Italy and we were trying to get some visuals that encapsulate the picture perfect Italian small town life. Except we knew the town was a mafia stronghold and journalists were probably not super-welcome. I felt like a lot of suspicious eyes were on us outsiders. So I played up, pretending to be a tourist and even asked someone to take my picture with some of the locals. And there you have it, visual proof of me on the job, as a Vanguard producer.
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Here's a sneak peek from the show:
Sneak Peek Vanguard Season 3: Leeches
I barely had time to unpack and repack when I was off to Italy where I met up with Christof Putzel to investigate one of Europe’s largest hubs for cocaine trafficking, a town just outside of Naples, Italy, called Castel Volturno. I spend most of my time on shoots looking through the viewfinder and filming. I love making images and hate being the center of attention so this is the perfect gig for me. But recently, I looked for some photos of myself in professional action—perhaps a shot of me hacking my way through the rainforest with some armed Cambodian forest rangers and realized I never got them. I’m usually so busy trying to make sure I capture the story unfolding in front of me, that I rarely stop to ask someone to take a keepsake photo of me. So going through my digital camera, I didn’t have much luck in finding the quintessential “badass” producer shot. Instead what I found was this classic snapshot of me, hanging out in a sun-drenched piazza with some old Italian gents. It was one of our last days of filming in Italy and we were trying to get some visuals that encapsulate the picture perfect Italian small town life. Except we knew the town was a mafia stronghold and journalists were probably not super-welcome. I felt like a lot of suspicious eyes were on us outsiders. So I played up, pretending to be a tourist and even asked someone to take my picture with some of the locals. And there you have it, visual proof of me on the job, as a Vanguard producer.
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