Stephen McGee is a professional photo/video journalist who has traveled the world focusing on topics that relate to environment and human interest, from exposing human rights violations and humanitarian crises, to globalization and clean energy. His multimedia work has been shown on/in sites/magazines including nytimes.com, viiphoto.com, washingtonpost.com, freep.com, usatoday.com, npr.org, People Mag, Der Spiegel. Throughout the 26 countries he has traveled, has lived the lives of his subjects to make certain that the stories he told were the truest to their reality. For two years he worked at the Detroit Free Press making short films on deadline where he was the photographer, producer and editor. He would shoot both stills and video for the multimedia pieces. Building upon the 174-year history of the Detroit Free Press, he gained a new fresh approach to visual journalism. McGee focused on localizing and vocalizing stories and scenarios representing life from the smallest daily aspect to the moments that live in our memories forever because of their stature and importance. In the two years after McGee helped start the multimedia department led by Nancy Andrews, the Detroit Free Press won 3 National Emmy Awards (in catorgies including, NY Times, Newsweek, National Geographic, Washington Post, LA Times, Frontline) and 5 Regional Emmys. McGee felt called to leave the Free Press pursue God’s will in his life. McGee utilizes his visual skills to service those who are the forefront of positive global change, the front lines of local humanitarian endeavors, those that make a difference because that is what they were called to do. McGee documents with intention to distribute the voices of the fallen, the broken, the hopeful, the helped, the beneficiaries, to make certain that the citizens of developed nations will not go on in ignorance to the actuality that exists beyond the news, beyond the black type print or LCD that lays just past their cappuccino. Those are the voices hs wants to amplify to the masses through the craftsmanship he practices. He has worked with various non-profits in Ghana, El Salvador, Honduras (2008) Uganda (2005), Rwanda (2005), and in Vietnam (2005, 2006, 2008) and Angola (2004). In 2004 he worked with Health Care for the Homeless where a documentary he co-produced, River Haven, raised $30,000 for a local group of California homeless trying to break out of the street life in Ventura, CA. My documentary in Uganda on an orphanage that harbors child soldiers raised $50,000 for the orphanage at the opening showing in Paris, France. His most recent project focusing on an organization’s 20-year impact in Vietnam will be premiered in Ho Chi Mihn City October 16, 2008 and will be used in fund raising attempts by Petra Nemcova, Bruce Willys and Wyclef Jean. McGee lives a life dedicated to his Christian faith in Detroit, Michigan.