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This
project began as a collaborative thesis project between journalists
Susan Latham and Nigel de Juan Hatton while they were attending
the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley in 2003. Susan
Latham took the photographs, recorded the audio interviews
and designed the web site. Mr. Hatton researched
and interviewed
many subjects before writing the text story.
We
both came to the project with a background in newspapers. We'd covered
violent crime only as a breaking news story where you meet victims
briefly but often don't see them again. Neither one of us particularly
liked covering crime this way, and we talked about how to do it
differently. In the case of Oakland's homicide rate, we wanted to
go beyond the facts of who, when, where and why. We wanted to follow
the lives of mothers and family members who are directly impacted
by the homicides.
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I was raised on a family farm in Groveland, MA. My father,
two brothers and younger sister continue to live
on the farm with their families. My mother lives
in Sailsbury, MA.
My mothers
family is Scottish heritage from Nova Scotia and
father's family
is
English from
Vermont.
Since
graduating in June, 2003, I moved to the The Navajo
Nation with my husband who teaches
5th grade at Lukachukai Community School. I
am working as a freelance photographer and run an after-school
Literacy and Photography program for the residential
program at the school.
My
work has been published in The
San Jose Mercury News, The Navajo Times and The
Bangor Daily News. I can be reached at: sblath@aol.com
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Mr.
Hatton was raised in Oakland, California....
I
am currently working as an I.F. Stone fellow
in the communications division at Human Rights Watch
in New York City. and a third-year graduate
student in
the MA/MJ concurrent degree program in journalism
and Latin American Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. A former staff writer with The
Sacramento Bee, he has also written for The
Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Portland
Oregonian, The
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch,
and The (Newport News, Va.) Daily Press.
He writes and dreams in hope and pursuit of a
world free
of murder,
rape and torture. He can be reached at nigelhatton@earthlink.net
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