livebooks success stories

Hailing originally from Buenos Aires, Edite worked as an art director before devoting her energy towards photography. When I ask her how she chooses a project, she tells me stories of how her projects more often choose her. The themes of each portfolio are compelling. Her most recent work entitled “It’s a girl” has drawn praise and critique as a provocative concept piece around the subjects of youth, maternity, and infertility. She is now embarking on the second phase of this project, an ambitious documentary work that will take her to places around the globe in search of women struggling with infertility.

You can be sure that there is a story in every frame Edite captures. Her documentary work in “Where is my Babushka?” will take you into a different world. In her “Environmental Portraits” portfolio, Edite uses light to contrast each subjects’ prominent facial features; and, more acutely to express each subject’s personal narrative. In this regard, I’d encourage you to view her work as both a collection of photos and as a portfolio of human experience. Let yourself do more than see Edite’s work, feel the emotion that personifies an Edite Haberman photograph.

Bruce Farnsworth is an editorial photographer focusing on place-based understandings of wilderness and sustainability initiatives in critical tropical rainforest reserves. Profound intercultural experiences and degrees in zoology, education and art influence his intimate and richly textured images. Bruce’s work showcases the raw beauty of rainforest environments and raises attention to the importance of rainforest preservation. Bruce’s clients include National Geographic, Smithsonian, Nature Conservancy, CondeNast and Discovery magazines as well as Fodor’s Travel Guides, Harcourt Brace and Taylor & Francis publishers, among others. Bruce is currently soliciting project partners and sponsors for his documentary project with the Blue Earth Alliance, entitled “Amazon Headwaters: Locals Working Toward the Global”. The Blue Earth provides fiscal sponsorship, facilitating tax-deductible donations as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization.

Through storytelling and photography the Rural Roots campaign celebrates rural Oregonians making great environmental contributions to their communities. This website is unique in that each portfolio has narration accompanying the images to tell individual stories.

Be surprised when you visit this site! It’s a liveBooks site for sure, but the main “portfolios” here are not still images. Instead, poignant videos are used to create a strong emotional connection between the viewers and the subjects who need your support. Once the connection is made, the “Get Involved” page suggests different ways that you can contribute to the cause, making it easy for anyone to take immediate action. Also note how it integrates the use of social media in the “share” page.

Ok, so we missed getting this site up in time for the forth of July. I’m sure you are still feeling patriotic…right? This is just one of Carol Highsmith’s liveBooks websites (she has several). By the way, Carol has sold more than 1.5 million books worldwide and been a featured photographer in more than 50 others. She also had an image on a postal stamp with more than 100,000,000 printings.

What Matters is a new book created by David Elliot Cohen, co-creator of the renowned Day the the Life and America 24/7 series of photojournalism best sellers. What Matters contains 18 searing, socially conscious photo-essays by the great photojournalists of our generation including Sebastiao Salgado and James Nachtwey.

This is a website to promote a book of photos by world-renowned photojournalist Ed Kashi, with text by UC Berkeley professor MIchael Watts, which takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta traces the 50-year history of Nigeria’s interests and the resulting environmental degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region.