Photographic observations from the places I pass through.
Best of Photojournalism: Best use of the web, 3rd place.
National Association of Black Journalists: 2012 Salute to Excelence Digital Media finalist.
2012 New York Photo Festival: Invitational Multimedia Winner.
We also were nominated for an Emmy by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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LaTonya Brooks lives with murder. As a homicide detective in the overburdened Detroit police department, she feels the pressure: the weight of too many cases, the frustration of not catching all the killers and the outrage over the random nature of the violence that plagues Detroit's streets.
LaTonya also knows that no one is immune -- her own father was murdered last year in a firebombing.
As a co-worker searches for her father’s killer, LaTonya investigates the murder of DeMonte Thomas, a young father gunned down at he sat in a chair at a neighborhood barbershop.
The same bullet that killed DeMonte also pierced the hearts of his mother, sister, fiancée, brother, daughter and friends.
The year following DeMonte’s death is one of frustration and sorrow for his family. His young daughter wonders if her daddy will ever come home, and his mother wonders how she can go on living without her son.
The sorrow of LaTonya and of DeMonte’s family mirrors that of a city that has lost over 3,300 people to homicide since 2003 -- more than have died among U.S. forces in 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan.
The enormity of Detroit's struggle with homicides can overwhelm people who want to fight back to protect their neighborhoods. Solutions seem to be beyond any one person's ability to make a difference. The frustration and violence leave one of America’s great cities “Living with Murder.”
Credits:
Executive Producers
Romain Blanquart
Kathy Kieliszewski
Producers
Romain Blanquart
Suzette Hackney
Kathy Kieliszewski
Lead reporter
Suzette Hackney
Reporter
Romain Blanquart
Lead videographer
Romain Blanquart
Photographer
Romain Blanquart
Video editor
Romain Blanquart
Script writers
Romain Blanquart
Suzette Hackney
Kathy Kieliszewski
Narrator
Joe Palmer
All songs composed, programmed,
arranged and produced by
Nick Speed for Nix Productions
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Photographic observations from the places I pass through.
www.freep.com/livingwithmurder
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See more photographs of Danny Brown here.
Special thank you to Fader editor and photographer john francis peters ,
and photographer Ross Mantle.
Can't Forget The Motor City featured on WNYC's Studio 360.
Listen!
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Photographs from In Transit, Detroit 2010.
Click on links below.
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See more videos at: www.freep.com/motown
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“Capri: il paradiso può attendere...”
Group show
collettiva dei fotografi della galleria
Luciano Bobba, Romain Blanquart, Ludovica Gusti, Marco Querin
dal 24 Luglio al 20 Agosto 2010
Studiò di Giovanna Simonetta
Capri - via San Nicola, 4 - Anacapri -Tel 3336099565