Chernobyl Legacy
By Paul Fusco

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"Chernobyl Legacy" won the prestigious Jury Award from the Mountain Film Festival in Telluride. The film will be traveling to forty venues around the United States, and has also been selected for many other film festivals including Tribeca, Environmental Film Festival, and the Wild & Scenic Environemntal Film Festival.

Bedouin Society Transition
By Ahikam Seri

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In Bedouin Society Transition, Ahikam Seri brings to center stage an Israeli tribal culture that has been perpetually marginalized, displaced, and banished within their own country for much of this century. Bedouin societies of southern Israel's Negev Desert have endured, and continue to endure, hardships brought on by a long history of military rule by the Turkish, British, and now Israeli.

Playing Cards with Nana: Intimate Stories from the Middle East
By Jihan Ammar

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During her years as a professional photographer, Jihan Ammar observed that the portraits of the Middle East that were popularized in the mainstream news media always favored the extreme. That which was 'news-worthy' was the underpriviledged and the uneducated, the fanatic and the religious zealot, and more often than not, the male. Playing Cards with Grandma is Ammar's attempt to re-present life in the Middle East.

Dirty Oil Business
By Sophia Evans

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Western public relations campaigns portray the presense of oil industries in the Third World as one of redeeming and positive effect. Through her photographs, Evans strives to debunk this myth and advocate the autonomy and safety of Nigerian citizens.

Iraq: A Depleted Generation
By JB Russell

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Depleted Uranium (DU) is the by-product of the enrichment process which also produces uranium that is used in nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs. It is very dense, 1.7 times denser than lead. This makes it attractive to the Military as an armor-piercing weapon.

Planet Propaganda, an award-winning design and advertising firm, donated their services and designed this ad for FiftyCrows. The ad appears on the back cover of the current issue of Eight magazine. This same issue of Eight features Mark Leong (one of the 2002 Winners of FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography) and Ahikam Seri (one of the 2003 Winners of FiftyCrows International Fund for Documentary Photography).

FiftyCrows Television and New Media are crucial components to our goal of reaching broader audiences with documentary photography. We’ve completed four short digital films of about four minutes each. We are in production on a fifth with Magnum photographer Paul Fusco and his essay Chernobyl Legacy, and additional twelve of past winners of the Photo Fund. Each short contains a photographer’s essay with narrative from the photographer and a call-to-action at the end.

The internet, television and film are THE most important distribution methods to reach large, new audiences with the important stories photographers bring to us. We’ve secured significant distribution partners with major and minor networks in both the cable and satellite television markets as well as film festivals. These pioneering efforts position FiftyCrows as the leader in a new paradigm of documentary photography distribution reaching millions of people around the world every month.

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