Seattle photojournalist Karen Ducey | news and documentary photographer

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  • Promo for the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience for their exhibit Community Spread: How We Faced a Pandemic. Director, Cinematographer, Video Editor
  • Promo for the Social Innovation Fast Pitch Seattle presented by the Social Venture Partners. Director, Photographer, Video Editor
  • Please support EMPACT Northwest and Port Au Prince Medic One! Many thanks to the volunteers and students whose pictures, songs, and faces grace the frames in this video. Director, Photographer, Video Editor© Karen Ducey 2011 Haiti
  • In the wake of Hurricane Katrina thousands of animals were abandoned in New Orleans by owners fleeing floodwaters caused by a break in the city’s levee. Compelled to help, a small group of people from Pasado’s Animal Rescue, based out of Sultan, WA. went to New Orleans determined to rescue as many animals as possible. They broke into houses, carried pets to safety through contaminated waters, and treated the injured. They cleaned cages and sheltered animals turned away by the LASPCA. More than a thousand animals facing certain death were saved through their efforts. Director, Photographer, Video Editor
  • When the Lights Go Out, 2011, a documentary short directed by Karen Ducey and screened at Seattle International Film Festival. Director
  • Photographed over six months, reporter, photographer and video producer Karen Ducey took a deep look into backyard dogs perpetually chained or penned. A new law was being proposed in 2011 to prohibit pet owners from continuously confining dogs. The story ran in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer several weeks before the paper shut down in March 2009. Director, Photographer, Video Editor
  • ONE FATAL SHOTThis project originally appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in September 2008 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It is no longer active on the Seattle P-I website but can be viewed by scrolling down and watching each of the six-part series. When 16-year-old Jordan Jantoc brought a handgun into his house, he had no idea of the consequences it would have. He thought only one thing: This “is cool.” On a late September evening in 2006, while showing it off to his siblings, Jordan accidentally shot and killed his brother and best friend, Michael. The tragedy sent Jordan’s close-knit family on an unusual journey of grieving; mourning the death of one son, while facing the possible loss of another to state prison for up to 8 years..In 2008 Ducey’s project “One Fatal Shot” was selected as a finalist in ASNE’s community service photojournalism award , finalist for a DART award for excellence in Coverage of Trauma, runner -up for a Casey Medal in the multimedia category, placed in the NPPA Best of Photojournalism domestic picture story category and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Director, Photographer, Video Editor
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  • King County Deputy Stephen Beets, the Evergreen High School resource officer, in White Center, Seattle, Washington, addresses the issue of teens with guns as part of the six-part multimedia series {quote}One Fatal Shot{quote} photographed, recorded and produced by Karen Ducey 2008, published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on September 12, 2008. The story followed the Miller-Jantoc family for one year after two of the teenage brothers, Michael and Jordan, were playing with a gun in the family home. Tragically the gun went off and one brother was left dead and the other faced going to jail. This story follows the family as they deal with the loss of one son and brother while trying to forgive the other.
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