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The Associated Press
A glimpse of my work for the Associated Press’ Global Investigations.
This Associated Press investigation uncovers the global expansion of state-of-the-art mass surveillance tools—from their origins in Silicon Valley to their advancement in China and eventual return to the U.S.
Based on tens of thousands of pages of classified and internal documents collected over three years of reporting, this report reveals how American tech companies designed, marketed, and profited from systems that built China’s digital surveillance apparatus. Now, those same technologies are making their way back home, deployed in secret new applications by U.S. Border Patrol.
Documenting Police Use of Force
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate deaths that occurred after police used tactics like prone restraint and other “less-lethal force.” The documentary and accompanying reporting draw on police records, autopsy reports and body cam footage, and the most expansive tally of such deaths nationwide.
Explore additional reporting connected to ‘Documenting Police Use of Force, including the ‘Lethal Restraint’ interactive and database.
Ukrainian medic is captured after documenting war
Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paievska, better known as Taira, mounted a camera on her helmet when the war broke out, to show the world the unfolding horror in Mariupol. After an Associated Press team got her footage safely out, Russian forces took her captive.
How Russia is Smuggling Ukrainian Grain to Pay for Putin's War | FRONTLINE + Associated Press
An investigation by Associated Press and FRONTLINE has documented a sophisticated Russian-run smuggling operation that has used falsified manifests and seaborne subterfuge to steal Ukrainian grain worth at least $530 million. Part of the award-winning interactive project War Crimes Watch.
The unofficial PHOTOGRAPHY trilogy
Three stories, two shorts, one feature-length, about the craft of capturing time.
‘Exposing Muybridge’ (Dir. Marc Shaffer) tells the story of trailblazing 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who changed the world with his camera. Muybridge set the course for the development of cinema when he became the first photographer to capture something moving faster than the human eye can see--Leland Stanford's galloping horses.
Role: Producer
Premiered at DOCNYC 2021.
**Winner of the 2022 Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay**
**Nominee Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film**
Photographing Jim Crow-Era 'Green Book' Locations
When African-American travelers wanted to drive across the U.S. in the Jim Crow era, they consulted a guidebook specially made and marketed to the growing black middle class. 'The Negro Motorist Green Book', published between 1936 and 1966, told them where it was safe to stop for gas, where to eat and where to sleep, where they wouldn't be refused service because of racial discrimination.
**Nominated for a 2020 Emmy® Award**
Director + Dir. of Photography
The open-air lab testing the world's deadliest poisons
Dugway Proving Ground is one of the most secretive of American military zones, hidden away in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. Dugway’s primary mission has been to develop and test chemical and biological weaponry and defense programs.
In Proving Ground, David Maisel was granted rare access to photograph the terrain, testing facilities, and other aspects of this deliberately obscured area.
Director + Dir. of Photography + Editor
The Maze
The MacArthur Maze is one of the most important freeway interchanges in the state of California. As the gateway to one of the nation's busiest bridges, the Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco with the East Bay, it allows 300,000 vehicles each day to travel to all four corners of the Bay Area and beyond. But the Maze also cuts through four distinct landscapes that each tell a story of separation and connection. | 24:12 min
Broadcast by KQED | PBS
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