Storytelling

A picture of icebreaker Polarstern in the Arctic.

Arctic Documentary

Polarstern has arrived in the Arctic ice. Credits: Ufa Documentary Earning a Grierson Award, “Expedition Arktis – Arctic Drift” is one of the most successful science documentations. It followed the German icebreaker Polarstern to the northern-most expedition of mankind, MOSAIC. On the year-long field campaign, the world’s most renown scientists spent one year in the arctic ice, capturing a vanishing ecosystem. In preparation for the succeeding documentation, “ArcWatch&#…

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Article on bias in automated systems for DIE ZEIT

(…) Bei dem Algorithmus von Cognitec wird die Datenbank seit 1995 kontinuierlich mit Bildern gefüllt, mittlerweile sind es Millionen. »Wir haben inzwischen einen guten Querschnitt. Am Anfang, als wir losgelegt haben, war das nicht der Fall«, sagt Pampus. Eine geringe Fehlerrate bleibe, die im Übrigen kleiner sei als bei der Verarbeitung durch den Menschen. Im internationalen Vergleich schneide sein Algorithmus hervorragend ab, sagt Pampus. Es könne immer mal wieder zu Abweichung…

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A gif of a young girl sailing on the ocean, a skyline of gaza behind her

Documentary filming at DER SPIEGEL

Between 2013-2017 I was part of the multimedia desk of DER SPIEGEL. We experimented with multimedia storytelling to accompany the print magazine for screens. My responsibilities were the supervision and production of visual stories – video and photo essays and short documentaries that would be featured in DER SPIEGEL Weitwinkel. I wrote concepts, conducted the filming and editing of video documentaries and oversaw post-production, both alone and in larger teams. Part of my assignment w…

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