First of all, I’d like to thank you all for your support with the death of my grandfather. Your words are a big support for my family.

I’ve always been a big supporter for real documentary photo journalism. Too bad that the traditional media keep cutting in time, budget en exposure for in depth photo stories. Luckily there are people like Brian Storm who offers through mediastorm an alternative channel for storytellers. These stories are sometimes stunningly beautiful but more often they are confronting and hard to digest and that’s the reason why there’s only a small percentage of the people are interested in them.
Through the mix of different media and by using the internet as a distribution platform, you can create a global platform in which a small percentage of the public can still reach the critical mass to make this kind of journalism possible.

Today, I stumble upon the site of the Bombay Flying group, a group of photographers and journalists who have put online one fascinating and two extremely haunting digital stories. It’s amazing yet confronting and a necessary counterweight to the often shallow mainstream media.

My respect for these (photo) journalists is endless. Personally, I tend to hide myself behind the excuse of having not enough time and it’s mostly due to the fact that I feel too responsible for my own family to chase after stories in the world’s danger zones. But I’m sure that in our own area there are enough stories that need to be told. I promised myself I’d try to make my own modest contribution in the future. Maybe you know a story that has to be told too?