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PDN Video Picks: Jim Lo Scalzo’s Award-Winning Look at Salton Sea

Photographer Jim Lo Scalzo’s funny/sad video “America’s Dead Sea” won third place in the World Press Photo Multimedia contest, announced this morning. Lo Scalzo manages to find a fresh perspective on the much photographed Salton Sea in the southern California desert. Intercutting his still photos and video footage with archival promotional films, Lo Scalzo’s three-and-a-half minute video traces the area’s decline from a major tourist attraction to a lifeless toxic dump, contaminated by salinity and farm chemical runoff. The video is touching, and there’s ukelele music on the soundtrack.

You can see “America’s Dead Sea” and Lo Scalzo’s other videos on Vimeo.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 15th, 2012 at 10:47 am ET by and is filed under - PDN Video Picks -, awards, Contests, Multimedia.

3 Responses to “PDN Video Picks: Jim Lo Scalzo’s Award-Winning Look at Salton Sea”

  1. The Salton Sea | Doobybrain.com Says:
    March 15th, 2012 at 11:32 pm

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  2. digital cameras Says:
    March 16th, 2012 at 6:00 am

    Does it even turn on? Try recharging the battery.

  3. entrpreneur Says:
    March 27th, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    Awesome learned something newnow now I’m good for today. Cheers!