Devin Altobello Brings His Talents to SC
Throughout the years we’ve had amazing people, staff and students alike, join Sail Caribbean. One of those people is Devin Altobello. As a teenager, Devin attended Sail Caribbean for three consecutive summers (2004-2006). As a college student currently focusing on multi-media photojournalism, he contacted us with a great project idea.
Devin told us that he understands the impact SC staff and programs have on a young person’s development. Prospective participants and their parents form impressions based largely on the SC website and brochure. Devin felt he could help to represent the SC experience by creating distinctive video portraits of our staff. This project would also allow him to continue developing skills in visual story telling. We were excited about Devin’s proposal and welcomed him as staff for summer 2011 to focus on this project.
Devin’s craftsmanship has made this endeavor a huge success! We are grateful that he joined us again to share his talents and pursue his professional goals. Devin’s work is impressive and we are enormously proud of him. We invite you to take a look and Meet our Staff.
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| Hannah Korus | Kyle Pierson | Sarah Morgan Lee | Daniel Klein | Kieran Sullivan |
Devin’s thoughts, current projects, personal goals, future plans, and links to his work follow:
“Images are a powerful universal language that can bestow a voice to the powerless, carry the words of the powerful or simply convey a story. It is in this nature that I strive to inspire understanding of the world through multi-media photojournalism.
Returning to Sail Caribbean as staff was a fruitful experience…I learned a lot and am grateful for this opportunity.
I am currently involved in a documentary production course in which I am working collaboratively with my classmates to highlight the stories of four contemporary Maine artists. This production is scheduled to appear on Maine Public Broadcasting Network.
At the end of November I will attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Durban, South Africa, with a delegation of students from College of the Atlantic. My contribution at this conference will be rooted in observation; it is my objective to document the process of negotiating climate politics at a global scale through photography. I hope to represent what happens on the ground in Durban and translate what I interpret into a more palatable language for a broad audience to consider.
A long-term goal of mine is to use the growing repertoire of skills that I have developed to effect change and promote the conservation and protection of wilderness areas, local fisheries, and limited resources as an environmental photographer. I also hope my work will engage viewers and help to preserve cultures, traditional ways of living, and identities across the globe.”
Links my work:
http://vimeo.com/19462103
http://vimeo.com/24336640
http://vimeo.com/22591669