View Miles and miles in a larger map After 40 days on the road, it’s time to head home and begin editing content. Between one story based in two towns more than 1,000 miles apart and another about the BP oil spill in the Gulf, I’ve been home a total of nine days since May…
Author: Jessey Dearing
Medicare, Medicaid and Disability
My documentary project on health care has picked up some pace and I am working with three people in the Charlotte and Monroe area currently. They all have very interesting, sad and disturbing stories about their struggle surviving major health injuries. Vernadine has a prosthetic leg and is more than 100,000 dollars in debt. Keith…
Anti-Health Care Protests
I’ve been working more in Charlotte on my project about health care. I’ve been narrowing my focus on the have-nots of health care, meaning those who are either under or uninsured. Most of my focus is on government programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare, and I would like to show where the programs are failing,…
N.C. Mission of Mercy Dental Clinic
I’m working on a project about health care for my documentary course. I’ve been trying to cover a broad range of topics and one is dental. Dental is often not included in health coverage and is very expensive. People go for years neglecting their dental hygiene even though dental pain can be one of the…
F/22 and Snow
We had a project titled F/22 where we had to photograph 22 things based on a list of 22 words. Here are some of the photos I came out with and the word we were to photograph.Blue 4 a.m. Body art The Letter E Fear From the Hip (not looking through viewfinder) Gross Love Self…
Raleigh Rally
Photos shot today, can you believe it? My focus today was light. Don’t steal my pictures. They are copyrighted. For real.
State Fair Project…
LivingGalapagos.org
Below is a youtube version of my Galapagos project, but I encourage you to visit LivingGalapagos.org because the website is pretty awesome. There is a ton of content on this website about the islands and worth visiting multiple times (you will have to, to see all the content).
action vs reaction
This the the coach of the women’s field hockey team at UNC having a roaring match with a fan.
Protest in Pittsburgh
I went to Pittsburgh with two friends Thursday night and Friday to photograph the protests of the G20 Summit. This is just a couple of images from the protest. The night protest were intense scenes. Police in full riot regalia used smoke, tear gas, rubber bullets and physical force to remove the protesters from the…
galapagos livin'
I have nearly 10,000 photos and nearly 20 hours of audio from my travels. Here is only “making of” type images, none are from the actual project I did. I also have hundreds of other photos from my time in Ecuador that are not included in this video. My first two weeks in the Galapagos…
the camry does it again…
I made the drive to Dallas, TX from Wilmington last week. It was an eventful two day journey. The first picture is where I slept, a driveway in Nashville in my camry, or my car. The sun rises early in Nashville because they are just over the border for central time. I think this was…
uncle x 4
Sylvia, my new niece. The Zoolander Sylvia’s older sister, Jade.
work in progress…
Two images from a project in progress. I’m not sure if the final will be in black and white or color, I like both.
at it again…
surrounded by 10,000 people… surrounded by 40,000 people…
can't stop, won't stop
I’ve been shooting a lot lately. Below are some, but not all of what’s been going, and others are out-takes from assignments. Betty Bigombe, a former minister of Uganda and peace negotiator, delivers her keynote speech Thursday discussing her mediations between the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group led by Joseph Kony, and the Ugandan…
big pictures
I’ve finally made the change to big pictures. This may mean slower uploading of the website, but it shouldn’t be a problem if you pay for an internet connection, which I don’t. So now you don’t need to click on all the little pictures, not that you did before. Kate Gilliam, a junior journalism major,…
portraits and the like…
This is some stuff I’ve been working on for a studio class I’m in…for some reason blogspot preview jpgs are the untoned versions of the image…so if you click on the image, you get a better rendition of what I thought I was posting…it is silly and annoying all in one.
the things you did and didn't see…
I did not put this is much of an order other than the two photo essays. This stuff is from as recent as last week to last year and a variety of things I just never made time to get to until today, the fourth day of my spring break.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Chapel Hill
I will add captions to these later.
Cats and Dags and Ducks
Apparently, I’ve been taking pictures of animals. I was discussing with myself the other day how I didn’t care too much for images with no point of focus, and now I’m posting three out of focus images because I like them. I am not sure what to think of that. Meet bandit, or softie. My…
northmas
I went to the bay in Maryland over the break and here are some images. The ones of me in front of the lighthouse were photographed by Ashley. The selftrait (the first image) was done in Dallas as I have found myself with an abundance of time and limited options for activities lately. So I…
Robots
I know I haven’t posted in a while, so this will be very anti-climatic. “Zaven Paré is a French new media artist who lives in Rio. He has won international acclaim for his electronic puppetry, stage design, video projections, and robotic art. He has collaborated with dancers and playwrights as well as with other digital…
You've been zapped!
Taser training at the Jacksonville, AR police department. “We want our officers to have an appreciation for the taser.”
Tillers with 750 cc motorcycle engines, a fire and wildart!
The tiller race is a unique event in a town three hours away from Little Rock with a population of 359 according to the sign seen upon entering Emerson city limits. The tillers have motorcycle engines and race across a dirt field 200-feet in length at an average speed of 18 to 24 mph depending…
Internship in Little Rock!
I have been sick the past two weeks and at some point I received pneumonia. I am getting better though. Here are some images from when I have actually been able to work, I will give them brief captions. The first four images are from Riverfest, a big festival that happened a couple of weeks…
Been driving
Memphis looks fun. Tennessee is a nice drive. Alabama is flat. Texas is flatter.
Community Interaction!
I always see a big group of people playing basketball/volleyball/soccer at this park near my house and I went there to shoot this for a backup of another assignment. I think I might go back a few more times in these last couple of weeks I have left in Asheboro. I have other shots, but…
Potterait!
This is the second potter, Fred Johnston, I photographed for our photojournalism class. I really liked the building which he built himself. He is a very nice and interesting/inspiring person, I will post a soundslide with more images and audio later this week. I used two strobes. One SB-24 hidden in wood pile on left…
Motion!
A frame from a project I am working on in my own time. I will post it when it is finished.
A&T Marching Band!
Some images from a photography/audio/video project Octavio are in the process of editing. You will probably see it soon. D200 17-35 #1: ISO: 800 F/2.8 @ 1/40th#2: ISO: 200 F/2.8 @ 1/80th
Dallas!
Took my spring break in Dallas, this is a view from the rooftop on one of the many beautiful days this past week.
Suds & Duds!
This is an assignment for the multimedia class to document a place using only natural sound, images, and royalty free music. Other requirements were 15-20 images and 60 seconds in length. Some images were by me, most were done by Ashley Ross. The final shot is the cue ball smacking my lens. Fortunately, it was…
Farming in Liberty!
Portrait of Earl York (from right) and son Robbie York at their farm in Liberty, NC. D200 ISO: 100 1/500 @ F/8
Selftrait!
It was pouring rain yesterday and I’ve not worked in the studio much lately so I decided to play for a while. I had other ideas but ended with this. D200 ISO: 200 F/11 @ 1/160th Strobe: Broncolor w/ Softbox
Pottery Project – Anita!
This was the first potter I photographed yesterday. The music is a little too loud in the final, it didn’t seem so loud while I was editing. Click here for the full resolution version and please excuse the purple text/link at the bottom. D200 ISO: 200 1/250 @ F/4 (Most Shots). Two off camera flashes…
Sketchy Warehouse!
These were taken at an abandon warehouse. It was sketchy. D200 1/1600 @ F/2.8 ISO: 320 D200 1/50th @ F/2.8 ISO: 320
Dallas Panoramics!
©2008 Jessey Dearing These are two panoramics from Dallas. I let CS3 do the hard work. I don’t remember how many images were in each. I think approximately seven in the sky image and at least 15 in the skyline image. Image 1: Nikon D200 ISO: 400 F/4 @ 1/160th 80-200mmImage 2: Nikon D200 ISO:…
High School Basketball!
Two images from a few of the basketball games I’ve been photographing. Lit with two alien beez positioned in the corners of one of the short sides of the court. ©2008 Jessey Dearing Nikon D1H 1/500th @ F/4 ISO: 400 80mm FL
Hip-Hop for Palestine!
Full res version is here. It was a fun show, the sound quality isn’t great, a little low.