MSNBC.com won exclusive internet rights to MediaStorm’s production, Iraqi Kurdistan by Ed Kashi. The private online auction ran for four days and was conducted at http://mediastorm.org. Participants included news, lifestyle and arts publications from around the world. MSNBC.com will premiere the project on November 13th, 2006.

Iraqi Kurdistan is an in-depth and timely look into the daily lives of the Kurdish people of northern Iraq presented in flipbook-style animation.

“It’s our goal at MediaStorm to produce innovative projects that exemplify the power of multimedia storytelling and place those productions with top-tier publications,” said Brian Storm, President of MediaStorm. “The unique nature of this project and the streamlined process of the online auction allowed us to make that happen.”

Read more about this in American Photo’s State of the Art.

Image Caption: MSNBC.com Director of Multimedia Robert Hood (left) and Senior Media Producer Meredith Birkett place their winning bid for Iraqi Kuridsistan, MediaStorm’s first online auction of a multimedia project. (Jim Seida / MSNBC)