Author: Sean Sheridan

Sean Sheridan is a photojournalist and author who for the last 16 years has been shooting and writing stories that elevate people and brands. Sheridan has a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. His first major work project was to help craft the marketing plan surrounding the launch of Bill Gates’ best-selling book, The Road Ahead and produce the CD-ROM version bound into the book. He also contributed to Gates’ second book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, before joining a private production company to shoot film projects around the world. In July 2002, Sheridan started 4:Minute.Media to tell compelling stories through feature writing, photography, film, and publishing. His work has taken him to nearly 60 countries and has been found in SMITHSONIAN magazine and on the cover of The Washington Times, countless development agencies and gallery exhibitions, Testimony Africa—his book about the terrible beauty of AIDS, genocide, and hunger in Africa—and most recently Wahl STORY, his book about renowned graffiti artist Erik Wahl. Sheridan and his family live in Colorado.
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Crown It

Update: Crowns film is done!

I just had a great trip to Rwanda. The first part of the trip was to help Karisimbi Business Partners get some stuff shot and also to hang with the Urquhart family. That was a good time. Along the way I did some shooting for International Justice Mission. That was equally good. I have some cool photographs of those two shoots but will save those for later.

The remainder and bulk of the time was spent with World Vision and a group called Casting Crowns. This was my third shoot in Rwanda and the country looks better and better all the time. One of the highlights was seeing my friend Emmanuel at the Murambi Genocide Memorial outside of Butare. It had been five years since I had seen him (and taken a photograph of him that made its way into Smithsonian Magazine (see “Testimony Africa,” which is now at the printer and will be ready in September. More on that soon.) Here is a slide-show of some of the photographs. The full Casting Crowns movie will be ready in mid July.

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Cover Girl

When I shot and wrote for Compassion after the earthquake in Haiti, I came across a lovely scene in a Compassion project where a woman was holding her hands up to the sky in thanks to God. I knew right then it was a special photograph, and I am glad Compassion saw it that way too and used it for the cover of their new magazine. Here is the non-cropped black and white version:

Be sure to click the link above and see the three stories inside the magazine I shot and wrote as well!

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Ruth Washburn Middle 3s – 2009/2010

What a great year at Ruth Washburn for the Middle 3s!

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The DR

Each year I try to make some of my time available for a project that could either use a little help or afford me the chance to be involved in something larger than my own little world. Although my paid work often does just that, it’s normally a completely different experience for me if there is not a “client” watching me closely. So a few weeks ago I had the chance to go to the Dominican Republic for a week with some friends from my church and help do some construction at a place called Mission Emanuel. We also visited a leper colony, a first for me. It was an outstanding trip! I did take my camera and got a few shots off everywhere I went. Here is a sampling:

At Mission Emanuel’s medical clinic. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010
The mission has a water bottling facility that provides clean water to the community at an affordable price. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010
Flag raising ceremony at the mission’s school. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.

For those of you who want to see more, check out the slideshow below…

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Haiti – The Aftermath

A few final selects from Haiti. Life continues there much the same way it did in the immediate days after the January 12, 2010 earthquake — a deep fear of aftershocks, futures filled with uncertainty, and people everywhere wondering how they are going to make it. There are no easy answer for Haiti right now. Hopefully these images will keep Haiti in your mind a little longer than the average news cycle, which has now largely moved on to the next crisis in the world…

A barber shop stands remains standing despite the collapse of building all around it. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
Members of the 82 Airborne division guard a food distribution at the King’s Gardens Orphanage, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 17, 2010.
A human skull sits on a bed of rubble outside a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The body, along with one partially exposed under the rubble, was burned in an attempt to both kill the smell of the decomposing bodies as well as hide the identities of the deceased as the hotel was a brothel and friends of the man who died wished to hide the fact that he was killed while seeing a prositute. February 2010.
A woman in the Solino Slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 16, 2010.
Families try to figure out how to respond to the mud that fills their tent city after only a single night’s rain. This woman is standing in the mud she and her child, who lost a leg in the January 12, 2010 earthquake, will have to sleep in tonight unless they figure something out. HA355, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 18, 2010.
Car batteries help power a food distribution warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.

Want to see more? Play the file below.