This spring Maggie Steber and I were lucky to be asked to be “clients” for Prof. Kim Grinfeder’s Interactive Interface Design class at the University of Miami School of Communication.

Click here to see Maggie’s “Audacity of Beauty” site. Click here to go to “Revolution Revisited.”

The (Very) Interactive Class: From top, Qin, Virginia, Patricia, Samantha, Meg, Josh and… Marcos.

Project Manager/Programmer Marcos Alonso and Designer/Programmer Josh Meltzer led an amazing group of grad students whoused HTML5 and JQuery to create cutting-edge interactive Websites.

My thanks go out to Marcos and Josh, and to Samantha Thornton, designer;  Meg Terilli and Qin Chen, programmers; Patricia Borns, lead information architect, and Virginia Ansaldi, information architecture and usability testing. I’d also like to thank Miami faculty advisors Peter Martinez, Joanne Aberilla, and Alex Thacker. I’d like to thank Professor Rich Beckman, Miami’s Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, for suggesting my project to the class.

The project began in 2010 and it is based on archiving and scanning of the original negatives by my former San Jose State students Michelle Gachet and Kirsten Aguilar. Imacon scans of the edit were made by Antonio Morton Butt.

The U.S. exhibition tour of Revolution Revisited opened on May 1 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

The exhibition was brought to the museum by  “Memphis in May” Vice President of Programming Randy Blevins. I’d like to thank Randy as well as National Civil Rights Museum President Beverly Robertson, Exhibition Preparator George Henderson and Marketing Director Connie Dyson for hosting Revolution Revisited. Thank you to MIM PATH volunteers Demetra Lawrence and Carole Cornell for showing me the town and making sure my stay in Memphis was full of surprises and huge meals.

The exhibition features fifty 16X20 and four 30X40 prints from negatives  made from 1984-86 during the final days of the Marcos regime. I returned to the Philippines in 2010 to locate and rephotograph some of the people in the 1980′s images. Fourteen are in this exhibition.

The project would not have been possible  without the permission and support of Jack von Euw, Curator of the Pictorial Collection at the Bancroft Library, U.C. Berkeley, the copyright holder.

The negatives (1,100 rolls) were archived and scanned by Kirsten Aguilar and Michelle Gachet. More then 500 Imacon scans for this exhibition and  the upcoming book and movie were made by Antonio Morton Butt. The exhibition was printed by Larry Angier of Image West Photography.

My name is Kim Komenich. I’m a photojournalist. In 1984 I joined San Francisco Examiner reporter Phil Bronstein as he reported on the final tumultuous years of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. A collection of fourteen of the photos I took during the campaign, election and revolution were awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

It’s been nearly twenty-five years and I’m back in the Philippines interviewing and photographing some of the people in my 1980′s photographs to see how they have gotten on with their lives. The current project will be called “Revolution Revisited,” a movie, a book an exhibition and an iPad app to be released in 2011.

You can see photos from my career at the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle (1982-2009) at kimkom.com.

I now teach multimedia at San Jose State University. This project combines the traditional “silver-based” photographic technology I used in the 1980′s (to shoot and develop more than 800 rolls of film) with today’s cutting-edge digital technologies (DSLR motion pictures, exhibition quality ink-jet printing and iPad interactive design.)

Please check here often for updates. We are about to announce the dates of our Manila exhibition.

Thank you,

Kim Komenich