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GED Class for The Wall Street Journal

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High-School Equivalency Degree Loses Its Dominant Position | More States Pick Alternatives to GED After Revamping Makes It Harder and Costlier for Test Takers

GED class instructor Marcia Leister, below, doesn’t like the updated GED test. From the article: “My students are extremely frustrated by the new test,” she said. “They are losing hope.” Read the article here.

 

Above: GED instructor Marcia Leister, standing in center, directs a class discussion at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Wash., this month.

Video: Prison Pet Partnership | Recent work for The Wall Street Journal

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Some recent video work of mine was recently published in The Wall Street Journal, telling the story of the Prison Pet Partnership at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, Washington. The program allows inmates to learn job and life skills while providing kennel and grooming services to clients from the surrounding community. In addition, unruly dogs from other programs (who might otherwise be put to sleep) are able to have a second chance by entering the prison’s training program.

There is also a great article by Joel Millman and photos by Stuart Isett. Robert Libetti edited the video very well, as usual. See the package here online, or watch the video embedded below.

 

Recent work for The Wall Street Journal: bikini barista coffee

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Wall Street Journal reporter Joel Millman informed the rest of the world about our plethora of “bikini barista” coffee shacks here in the Pacific Northwest and wrote a nice story in the process. Read the story here on the Journal’s website (login required, but hint: Google “WSJ bikini barista” and you can read the story) or just watch the short video below with Joel talking a little bit about the story. Some of my pictures are also below. Thanks for looking.

 

A barista is pictured while serving a customer at Java Juggs in Everett, Washington on January 18, 2014. Stands like Java Juggs, which features scantily clad workers, are common throughout the Pacific Northwest. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Bikini barista espresso stand owner Carmela Panico (left) appears in court via a video stream from the Snohomish County Jail, with her attorney Gil Levy (right), as seen on a screen in a Snohomish County courtroom in Everett, Washington on January 17, 2014. Panico was arrested for witness tampering and intimidation in relation to an ongoing police probe into prostitution connected to her bikini barista espresso businesses. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Bikini barista espresso stand owner Carmela Panico (left) appears in court via a video stream from the Snohomish County Jail, with her attorney Gil Levy (right), as seen on a screen in a Snohomish County courtroom in Everett, Washington on January 17, 2014. Panico was arrested for witness tampering and intimidation in relation to an ongoing police probe into prostitution connected to her bikini barista espresso businesses. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

A barista is pictured while serving a customer at Java Juggs in Everett, Washington on January 18, 2014. Stands like Java Juggs, which features scantily clad workers, are common throughout the Pacific Northwest. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

The exterior of Twin Peaks, a bikini barista espresso stand, is pictured in Kent, Washington on January 17, 2014. Stands like Twin Peaks, which features scantily clad workers, are common throughout the Pacific Northwest. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

A sign for Java Juggs, a bikini barista espresso stand, is pictured in Everett, Washington on January 17, 2014. Stands like Java Juggs, which features scantily clad workers, are common throughout the Pacific Northwest. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

Recent work for The Wall Street Journal: The Lobotomy Files

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A month or two ago, The Wall Street Journal had me illustrate portions a very powerful story by reporter Michael M. Phillips called The Lobotomy Files, which was finally published over this past week in three different chapters. The story received great play both in print and online, with beautiful layout, design, and interactive online features. Michael did an incredible job with the reporting, too. It was an honor to be a part of this project and to help tell this important story. Please take a look at the full project online, and see my contributions below. I did the filming for two short videos in addition to doing portraiture and other relevant still photography. This was my first time on the front page of WSJ, which was great.

Video:

Photos:

Frances Malzahn sits for a portrait in her home in Granger, Washington on October 15, 2013. Malzahn’s uncle, Emil Kauzlarich, was a Coast Guard veteran and was lobotomized in 1951. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Frances Malzahn is pictured in her home in Granger, Washington on October 15, 2013. Malzahn’s uncle, Emil Kauzlarich, was a Coast Guard veteran and was lobotomized in 1951. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Pictured in her Granger, Washington home on October 15, 2013, Frances Malzahn holds a flag used in the 1984 funeral of her uncle, Emil Kauzlarich. Kauzlarich was a Coast Guard veteran and was lobotomized in 1951. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Frances Malzahn holds an undated photograph of a young Emil Kauzlarich, a Coast Guard veteran who was her uncle. Kauzlarich, who passed away in 1984, was lobotomized in 1951. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Photographs of Emil Kauzlarich (left, in both images) in his Coast Guard uniform are seen at the home of Frances Malzahn, who is his niece. Kauzlarich, a Coast Guard veteran who passed away in 1984, was lobotomized in 1951. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Edna Schauer sits for a portrait in her home in Port Orchard, Washington on October 14, 2013. Schauer’s brother, Eugene Kainulainen, was a U.S. Army Air Forces veteran and was lobotomized in 1953. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Edna Schauer sits for a portrait in her home in Port Orchard, Washington on October 14, 2013. Schauer’s brother, Eugene Kainulainen, was a U.S. Army Air Forces veteran and was lobotomized in 1953. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Pictured in her Port Orchard, Washington home on October 14, 2013, Edna Schauer holds two mugs made by her brother, Eugene Kainulainen, after his lobotomy. He dreamt of attending art school, and these mugs are some of the only reminders Schauer still has of her brother. Kainulainen, now deceased, was a U.S. Army Air Forces veteran and was lobotomized in 1953. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

Edna Schauer reads a magazine about flowers and birds in her kitchen in Port Orchard, Washington on October 14, 2013. Schauer’s brother, Eugene Kainulainen, was a U.S. Army Air Forces veteran and was lobotomized in 1953. CREDIT: David Ryder for The Wall Street Journal

 

The front page of The Wall Street Journal weekend edition, Dec. 14/15:

 

Edna Schauer’s interview video as it looked on the WSJ.com home page: