No Place Like Home
A Global Exploration of Violence Between Partners
An Investigative Report By
Lucian Perkins
Lucian Perkins shot all of the still photos and moving images that appear in this project. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in biology, later studying photography with Garry Winogrand and working on the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. In 1979 he received an internship at The Washington Post, after which he worked as a staff photographer for 27 years.
He received the “Newspaper Photographer of the Year” by the National Press Photographers Association in 1994 for a portfolio that included projects in Russia. In 1995 with Post reporter Leon Dash he won a Pulitzer Prize for their four-year study on the effects of poverty on three generations of a Washington, D.C., family through the eyes of the family’s matriarch, Rosa Lee Cunningham. In 1996 he was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year for his photograph of a young boy in war-torn Chechnya. In 2000 Perkins won another Pulitzer Prize along with two colleagues at the Post for their coverage of the Kosovo conflict.
Perkins also co-founded InterFoto, a non-profit that mounted an annual international photography conference in Moscow (1995-2005), and organized exchange programs, exhibitions, workshops and a “Russian Photography of the Year” contest. In 1996 and 1997 Perkins curated an exhibition of Russian photography, “Russia: Chronicles of Change,” that traveled to museums in the United States.
In 2008 he co-founded “Facing Change: Documenting America,” a collective of 10 photographers documenting many of the issues facing the United States.
Currently, Perkins is an independent photographer and filmmaker concentrating on multimedia projects and video documentaries while still pursuing his love for the still image. His latest book, Hard Art, DC, was published by Akashic Books in June 2013.
Susana Seijas
Susana Seijas is a London-based journalist and producer. She was until recently based in Mexico, where she covered breaking news and the drug war. Her stories have appeared on the BBC, CBS News, PBS NewsHour, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Radio New Zealand, Slate and The Times of London, among others. Previously she was the president of the Mexico committee of the Rory Peck Trust and a Knight International Journalism Fellow at Televisa. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate of School of Journalism in New York. Susana holds dual British and Mexican citizenships and is fluent in English, Spanish and Russian.
Pierre Kattar
Pierre Kattar was responsible for editing all the video and audio components of this story. He is an Emmy Award-winning video journalist and documentary filmmaker. He developed his observational style of filmmaking during his 10 years at The Washington Post's website where he reported, shot, edited, wrote and produced news and feature video stories. His clients include The New York Times, Frontline, Al Jazeera, the NewsHour, AARP and National Geographic. His work can be seen here: http://www.pierrekattar.com.
Joanne Levine
Joanne Levine was hired as Managing Editor/Executive Producer to help launch Orb Media’s first story. She helped select the story, drive the editorial vision and fill in any and all gaps — from writing the multimedia story to hiring translators. Joanne has spent her professional life traveling the globe to better understand the world. Her distinguished career includes helping to launch Al Jazeera English in the United States as its founding head of programming for North and South America, where she was responsible for all documentary and current affairs output from those regions. Prior to that, Levine was an award-winning producer for ABC NEWS for its premiere news programs NIGHTLINE with Ted Koppel, and ABC News World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Shortly after 9/11 Levine went to Amman, Jordan on a Knight International fellowship to train Arab female journalists and met her husband along the way. Levine has garnered myriad awards including Emmys for her work in Iraq, and a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her reporting on rape as a weapon of war during the Rwandan genocide. She began her journalism career in Moscow, where she was a founding reporter for the Moscow Times, Russia’s first English language daily newspaper. Levine received her M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.
Heather Krause
Heather’s invaluable contribution included working with the Orb team to gather, prepare and analyze data. Heather is a professionally trained mathematical statistician with years of working on complex research problems for non-profit and NGO organizations. She is the founder and principal consultant at Datassist and has worked on every continent except Antarctica. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways and using cutting edge visualization methods to visualize the results. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication.
Neal Rothleder
Neal works at the confluence of data science, cyber security, and cloud. His technical skills are built on a deep foundation in machine learning and data science.
Credits
Keith Runyon
Keith Runyon was a writer and editor with The Courier-Journal in Louisville for 43 years. He now is a consultant and commentator on public radio. Keith is an advisor to Orb Media and helped with final story reviews and edits.
Natasha Young
Natasha helped to fact-check and offered office support – always with a smile. Before joining Orb Media she worked in the administration of two development projects and enjoyed working and traveling in the developing world. Natasha has a Master's in Public Administration from Rutgers University
Siddhi Camila Lama
Siddhi Camila Lama copyedited this story. Siddhi is a contributing journalist, editor, and researcher at Orb Media. She is a certified nutrition coach who holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the MIT Portugal program at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. She also has a M.Sc. in Organ, Tissue, and Cellular Transplantation and B.Sc. in Human Development.
Eli Solomon Bass
Eli Solomon Bass is Orb Media’s first intern and offers a youth perspective. He assisted the story process by researching, copy editing, data archiving, advising on social media and disseminating surveys for collecting feedback on our first story. He will graduate in the class of 2016 from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in English Literature, concentration in Cultural Studies. He also studies Arabic and is interested in Global Development. A fun fact about Eli is that he can say nearly any word in the English language backward upon request.