“As long as you’re honest and candid about the way that you’re exploring a situation, that can give you a more direct route to your own individual truth of a situation.” Dan Archer by Audra McNamee
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Dan Archer has been working as a graphic journalist for over a decade. He focuses on human rights-related topics in his work, and is accustomed to respecting the sensitivities associated with telling the stories of survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation of minors, domestic violence, mental health, homelessness, incarceration and state-sponsored violence. His work has been supported by the BBC, Vice, the US State Department, Associated Press, the Colombian government, Open Society, and European Journalism Centre; he has a Maynard Institute Award for mental health reporting. In 2015 Archer founded Empathetic Media, a mixed reality production studio, to expand his interactive journalism into the immersive space. Since then EM has produced dozens of virtual, augmented and mixed reality experiences from 360 videos to room-scale pieces for a wide range of clients, including the Washington Post, Pfizer Foundation, Gilead Life Sciences and the NHS. He’s also working on a doctoral thesis at UCL focused on measuring the impact of pro-social behavioral interventions inside immersive experiences using biosignals.
