An extensive interactive multimedia storytelling project focusing on the challenges and possibilities of our forest industry.
Consists of 12 articles and a full length feature film.
Cinematography by the award winning documentarist Petteri Saario / DocArt.
Elements used in the articles: text, stills, video, 360° imagery, virtual objects, interactive graphics and original web design.
Good example of the powerful storytelling capabilities of the 360° can be found in “Princess Sophie Diaries”.
Over 30 years of experience in stills photography – including photojournalistic work, press photography, corporate and high profile sports. Multiple awards and assignments ranging from crisis areas, music- and corporate photography to seven Olympic Games, Volvo Ocean Race sailing and Roland Garros/Wimbledon tennis.
Different visual approaches have their uses in modern visual storytelling, but video has become de facto way of visual storytelling in many environments.
Video is extremely powerful especially when conveying feelings, leading to a certain mood, or showing “how to” ‑material. Also very powerful in corporate use, showing the more humane aspect of the business.
Most of the visual storytelling is in the web and most of that content seen on a touch device. DocImages focuses presently very strongly on developing innovative and dynamic web narration and touch native visual storytelling.
It can be template based – such as this page – or it can be totally custom made HTML5/CSS/JS and hand coded, like many of the projects in the portfolio samples.
A great visual asset are interactive graphics, which can be user manipulated on touch screens.
Workshops ranging from one day to three weeks, typically focusing on photography workflows, sports photography, video editing, multimedia- and visual storytelling as well as the future of the media and the challenge of developing the essential skillset for the future.
Lots of the R&D is behind the scenes – and the projects are often under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreements). As an example of R&D work which can be publicly seen, the background image displays the main screen (18x3 meters) of the Haltia Nature centre in Nuuksio, Finland, where DocImages was pivotal in developing the camera rigging used for shooting material for the extreme HighDef and superwide exhibition display.
DocImages is an experimental multimedia- and visual storytelling company founded in 2010. The founder, Kari Kuukka, was teaching in the University of Tampere visual journalism curriculum and the aspiring young talent was lacking an outlet for their work. Initiative from the students led to the creation of DocImages.
Kari went on to teach in Aalto University and Lahti University of Applied Sciences (former Institute of Design) along with pursuing his own career in high profile sports photography – including e.g. seven Olympic Games, Volvo Ocean Race, Wimbledon, Roland Garros and world/european championships in alpine skiing, athletics, ice hockey, figure skating, etc. to name a few.
At the same time he was building his own expertise on multimedia- and visual storytelling, attending workshops around the world (including two with Media Storm).
2016–17 he took almost a two years leave of absence from photography and proceeded to develop a teaching curriculum for all the skills and verticals necessary for the modern visual journalist.
Over the years DocImages has evolved into a visual storytelling studio centered very much on Kari’s work, but due to his long teaching career and extensive professional network, he has ample connections and contacts to work with. Former students he has worked with have gone to intern and work for National Geographic, International Red Cross, and other international NGO’s — not to mention the national press.
Lately DocImages has had an increasing collaboration with some of the best documentary film makers in the country.
