Look who is coming with us to Vietnam in January 2010:
Janat Horn- Brooklyn, NY
Janat Horn is originally from Washington DC and now lives and works in New York. After completing a Master’s degree in painting and briefly becoming “one of the world’s worst yet most sincere waitresses, the euphemistic term is ‘she elected’ to pursue another line of work.”
Janat is a documentary street photographer who believes that the decisive moment to capture is not the instant of high drama. From her point of view, the value is in holding to the small sequences that pinpoint where we are now.
When asked about her motivation to travel with Salaam Garage to Vietnam, Janat remarked, “It is important to speak. I want to see and tell what I see. I don’t know what to expect. There is a lot that needs to be said and photography is one of the best tools. For America, the Vietnam War has been over for a long time. The War’s aftermath is brought up, but in a general way. People want do the right thing, and they act on it if that action is for people whose story they know.”
She is currently a member of Soho Photo, a cooperative gallery located in Tribeca.
Janat on Flickr: flickr.com/jhorn1
Janat’s Website: JHornNotes.com
Facebook: Janat Horn
————————————————————————————– Daysha Eaton- Los Angeles, California
Journalist and graduate of Annenberg School of Journalism
Daysha Eaton is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles. She began her career writing for the Port Townsend Leader in Washington State. After adventures in the United States, which include working on a paddlewheel steamboat on the Mississippi River and backpacking trips through South Asia and Europe, she worked for NorthWest Cable News and KING5 TV in Seattle as a news writer. She also worked in Public Radio, interning at both KUOW and KPLU in Seattle. She just graduated from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism in Los Angeles where she earned a degree in Specialized Journalism with a focus on immigration reporting. She is also the founder of Superstringer.com, and online community for freelance journalists. She has freelanced for KPLU, PRI’s The World and KQED’s, ‘The California Report.’
Daysha says; “I am coming with SalaamGarage to Vietnam to take my storytelling skills to a new level and to shed light on an under covered story. My goal has always been to become a foreign correspondent, but I am hitting the peak of my career at a time when the legacy media industry is imploding due to the failure of the advertising-based business model. Jobs in foreign correspondence are disappearing. But I see this time of crisis in journalism as an opportunity. I hope that by teaming up with SalaamGarage in Vietnam we can be a part of a media revolution, returning to the ideals that make American journalism great, and at the same time expanding what we do to include new narratives for new media platforms as well as finding new ways to engage citizens in our stories through social media.” Wow!
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Niamh Molloy- New York, NY
Niamh Molloy (pronounced /ˈnɛv/) is from a town near Waterford, Ireland. A real renaissance woman of the arts, her talent spreads to sculpture, jewelry, fused and cast glass, photography, she practices it all.
Vietnam 2010: Participants
Look who is coming with us to Vietnam in January 2010:
Janat Horn- Brooklyn, NY
Janat Horn is originally from Washington DC and now lives and works in New York. After completing a Master’s degree in painting and briefly becoming “one of the world’s worst yet most sincere waitresses, the euphemistic term is ‘she elected’ to pursue another line of work.”
Janat is a documentary street photographer who believes that the decisive moment to capture is not the instant of high drama. From her point of view, the value is in holding to the small sequences that pinpoint where we are now.
When asked about her motivation to travel with Salaam Garage to Vietnam, Janat remarked, “It is important to speak. I want to see and tell what I see. I don’t know what to expect. There is a lot that needs to be said and photography is one of the best tools. For America, the Vietnam War has been over for a long time. The War’s aftermath is brought up, but in a general way. People want do the right thing, and they act on it if that action is for people whose story they know.”
She is currently a member of Soho Photo, a cooperative gallery located in Tribeca.
Janat on Flickr: flickr.com/jhorn1
Janat’s Website: JHornNotes.com
Facebook: Janat Horn
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Daysha Eaton- Los Angeles, California
Journalist and graduate of Annenberg School of Journalism
Daysha Eaton is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles. She began her career writing for the Port Townsend Leader in Washington State. After adventures in the United States, which include working on a paddlewheel steamboat on the Mississippi River and backpacking trips through South Asia and Europe, she worked for NorthWest Cable News and KING5 TV in Seattle as a news writer. She also worked in Public Radio, interning at both KUOW and KPLU in Seattle. She just graduated from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism in Los Angeles where she earned a degree in Specialized Journalism with a focus on immigration reporting. She is also the founder of Superstringer.com, and online community for freelance journalists. She has freelanced for KPLU, PRI’s The World and KQED’s, ‘The California Report.’
Daysha says; “I am coming with SalaamGarage to Vietnam to take my storytelling skills to a new level and to shed light on an under covered story. My goal has always been to become a foreign correspondent, but I am hitting the peak of my career at a time when the legacy media industry is imploding due to the failure of the advertising-based business model. Jobs in foreign correspondence are disappearing. But I see this time of crisis in journalism as an opportunity. I hope that by teaming up with SalaamGarage in Vietnam we can be a part of a media revolution, returning to the ideals that make American journalism great, and at the same time expanding what we do to include new narratives for new media platforms as well as finding new ways to engage citizens in our stories through social media.” Wow!
Daysha’s Blog and Website: www.superstringer.com
Twitter: @dayshaea and @superstringer
Daysha’s Linkedin profile
check out her blog entry “Making Peace with Dad’s War” about her inspiration, her father, for coming to Vietnam on the SalaamGarage blog.
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Niamh Molloy- New York, NY
Niamh Molloy (pronounced /ˈnɛv/) is from a town near Waterford, Ireland. A real renaissance woman of the arts, her talent spreads to sculpture, jewelry, fused and cast glass, photography, she practices it all.