Chris Jordan and Jan Vozenilek share their experiences on Midway with students at Penticton Secondary School in British Columbia – Canada, and announce that Emily Chartrand, a grade 11 student, will be joining the expedition on their next journey to Midway Atoll in March 2011. Working with Emily, the Midway Team is expanding its education [...]
John Klavitter, the acting manager of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife refuge has spent almost 9 years on Midway Island. In this short film, he not only takes a closer look inside one of the dead chicks, but also shares his personal views and connection to the Albatross. Camera and editing: Jan Vozenilek Sound: Joe [...]
Young albatrosses making their first foray out to sea can become waterlogged and exhausted, drifting back to the beach to rest and dry out. This disturbing video shows the plight of those unlucky enough to become trapped by the high metal retaining walls in Midway’s harbor. The doomed birds drown in an entanglement of dead [...]
Young Laysan Albatrosses look wizened and world-weary in their grizzled down, but they have only just begun to test their wings on the wind and water, and the success of their journey remains uncertain. Jan Vozenilek captures the presence and vulnerability of the fledgling birds of Midway in this next installment of his Brushstrokes vignettes. [...]
Vancouver, British Columbia-based cinematographer Joe Schweers joins us for this leg of Midway Journey. In this short video, he turns his lyrical eye toward the fledgling albatrosses’ struggle to keep themselves cool under the intense sub-tropical sun. Filmed and edited by: Joe Schweers Narrated by: Chris Jordan Music by: Christen Lien
Brace yourself for this short video of the horrifying contents of the stomach of a dead baby albatross on Midway Atoll. The island will soon be covered with tens of thousands of carcasses like this, as the plastic-filled birds die from starvation, dehydration, and choking. Video by: Jan Vozenilek Music by: Christen Lien
Seabird photography calls for telephoto lenses, camouflage clothing, and stealth movements, right? Well, not on Midway Atoll. On their second day on the island, Chris Jordan, Jan Vozenilek and the rest of the Midway Journey team are adopted as brothers and sisters by the charismatic albatrosses of Midway. These magnificent creatures inhabit the vast and [...]
A walk on the shores of the remote and wild Canadian island of Cortes illustrates that plastic is polluting even the most remote and beautiful corners of our planet. Midway Journey members Chris Jordan, Manuel Maqueda, Jan Vozenilek and Bill Weaver reunited in May 2010 to attend the Media that Matters conference in Hollyhock, Cortes [...]
Midway is a place suspended in time and in space. On this tiny island, the visitor is gently transported into a state of wonder which becomes a portal for instrospection. Cinematographer Jan Vozenilek has used his camera to sketch the subtle timelessness of Midway in a short video that we want to share with all [...]
Chris and Manuel find comic relief as they rummage through a pile of plastic garbage collected on the beaches of Midway Island. Video by Jan Vozenilek
