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Through a series of documentary films, video interviews and recorded talks, Exposing the Invisible captures different techniques, tools and most importantly the mindset and motivation of those working at the new frontiers of investigation.

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Conflict and Power Mapping Satellite Imagery Video

The Killings They Tweeted: Screening and Q&A with Airwars and Tactical Tech

How can publicly available military footage be used to uncover the human cost of conflict? In...
Investigating Visual Media Access to information

Jürgen Geuter: Looking At What Is

Contemporary discourse around socio-technical systems is often reduced to conversations about...

Anatomy of ‘The Pylos Shipwreck’ Investigation

Journalists from the Greek media outlet Solomon share their award winning investigation of the...
Access to information

What’s Your Story?

You may be a good investigator but the visibility of your findings will depend on how well you’ve...
Investigating Visual Media Satellite Imagery Mapping

More Than Just a Map

How can we think critically about maps when conducting research and investigations?
Money and Politics

Investigating Companies: Where to start

Companies are responsible for most products, activities and money transactions around us. Find...
Access to information Data

Finding and Retrieving Lost Websites

Learn more about how to retrieve old online content and deleted webpages so you can still...
Safety

Safer Together

How can you help avoid any negative impact of your actions and behaviors on the safety of...
Access to information

The Quest for Evidence

Find out what makes evidence, and which questions to ask when collecting and analyzing evidence.
airwars investigation visuals
Conflict and Power Mapping Satellite Imagery Video

The Killings They Tweeted: Screening and Q&A with Airwars and Tactical Tech

How can publicly available military footage be used to uncover the human cost of conflict? In...

Troubled Waters: Investigating How Intensive Agriculture Pollutes our Waters

Follow an investigation into the pollution of European water sources - both freshwater and...

Anatomy of ‘The Pylos Shipwreck’ Investigation

Journalists from the Greek media outlet Solomon share their award winning investigation of the...

How to Track and Investigate Online Disinformation Networks

Behind the chaos of disinformation there are rules, methods, drivers and clearly established...
Money and Politics Access to information

Mercy Abang – "The media is biased"

Exposing the Invisible talks to journalist Mercy Abang about collaboration as the key to...
Conflict and Power Investigating Visual Media Mapping Research

Luca Mazzali - “It's not just cartography"

Exposing the Invisible talks to Italian cartographer and researcher Luca Mazzali about the...
Access to information Money and Politics Propaganda Verification

Inga Springe - “I can really change things”

Exposing the Invisible talks to investigative journalist Inga Springe about the urge and power to...
Safety Access to information

Collaborative Investigation

Collaboration can save your life, or uncover a great deal

Framing Citizen Investigations

How does one start to become an investigator? Where is the borderline between being interested...

Crowdsourcing and Collaboration

Sometimes it takes a crowd to get to the core of issues.

Investigation is Perseverance

Investigations require lots of new ways to approach questions, information, people...
Research

Networking

The importance of networking across borders, topics and views
Access to information Data journalism

Data in Investigations

Data can tell stories, if we learn to “listen”
Safety

Safety

Risk is inherited

Organisations and Initiatives

Organisations and institutions that conduct and support investigations

Films

From My Point of View

The second episode in the series, 'From My Point of View', rather thanlooking at professional...

Our Currency is Information

Our currency is Information is the first episode of the documentary film series Exposing the...

Unseen War

Exploring the physical, moral and political invisibility of US drone warfare in Pakistan.

Sketches

!Mediengruppe Bitnik, Losing Control

Carmen Weisskopf​ and Domagoj Smoljo are contemporary artists that make up !Mediengruppe Bitnik,...

M.C. McGrath: Hiding in the open

M.C. McGrath is a hacker and an activist based in Berlin, Germany and is the creator of...

Ingrid Burrington: Tactical cartography

Ingrid Burrington talks here about growth of Occupy movement, why she got involved, how we look...

Jesus Robles Maloof: The power of conviction

Jesus Robles Maloof is a human rights defender in Mexico. He talks to us about the conviction...

Niccolo: Retro-engineering conflict

Niccolo Figa-Talamanca is the Secretary General of No Peace Without Justice, and works...

Smari McCarthy: Making data speak

Smari has many hats. His default one is as Director of the International Modern Media Institute,...

Rahul Bhargava - How Stories Move

As well as being a research specialist at the MIT Center for Civic Media, Rahul does a lot of...

Lydia Medland: From freedom of information to genuine accountability

Lydia has worked with Spain-based Access Info for several years, working to promote a stronger...

Brett Scott: Economic explorer

Brett explored the inner workings of the financial sector from the trading room floor, before...

The Syrian Archive

The Syrian Archive is a Syrian initiative that strives to promote sustainable peace and respect...

Mari Bastashevski: Facing secrecy

Mari Bastashevski's work deliberately blurs the line between art, research, writing and...

James Bridle: Plane talking

Interviewing writer, artist and technologist, James Bridle about his work.