Recommended reading

“Without an idea of the future that’s genuinely shared by large numbers of people—a real and lasting solution to the conditions described in these books—an arrest on Wall Street becomes one more story from an age of individuals”

- “The New Depression Journalism” George Packer’s observations in the New Yorker on the differences in attitudes during Great Depression and Great Recession. It investigates the process of covering these times and society defaulting to individualism after the losing belief in institutions and collective ideologies.

 

North Atlantic Right Whales

Anna Hamilton , who is of the audio documentary persuasion, invited me along to take photos while she interviewed Katie Jackson of Florida Fish and Wildlife. The interview took place in a house full of scientists monitoring the annual North Atlantic Right Whale migration. Anna wrote an article for Drift and Staugustine.com and recently created the audio slideshow below.

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