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Friday, September 5, 2008
Jehad Nga at the Frontline Club

Jehad Nga showed his work and spoke with BBC Africa correspondent Rob Walker Friday evening (5 September, 730pm) as part of a series of conversations about Somalia at the Frontline Club. The talk can be viewed HERE ... (62 minutes).

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Monday, September 1, 2008
World In Focus Competition

Travel Photography competition with deadline of 8th September....more

Plus just in Expose Your World competition ...more

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Freelancers hostage in Somalia

"Four media workers have been held hostage by an unknown group roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) west of Mogadishu. Freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan, and Abdifatah Mohamed Elmi, along with driver Mahad Clise, were returning from interviews with Somali refugees at Celasha Biyaha when they were kidnapped along the Afgoye-Mogadishu road. The Australian Federal Police and Australia and Canadian diplomats are working with the Somali government to help with hostage release efforts". ...more

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Mark Seliger Speaks on Video

Mark Seliger speaks about his work at Vanity Fair ...more

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Sense of Place

“A Sense of Place”
Location based workshop 8th to 14 September 2008.
Saddleworth museum and art gallery Uppermill.

Overview
A series of workshops with intended outcomes of an exhibition, a multi-media presentation and a publication within a week.

Aims
Involvement and collaboration of MA students in a community based project.

Outcomes.
Exhibition – starting with the work done by MA photo students of this years Whit Friday band competition- the exhibition will be developed over the week by the addition of the landscapes and portraits produced in the workshops. Text and poems will also be added.

Presentation – all the work will be edited and produced as a multi-media presentation to be projected at the weekend- possibly to the accompaniment of a local brass band.

Publication- this is the most ambitious aim of the week- to produce a book in 5 days. All the words and images will be edited to form a coherent narrative of a sense of place.

The Workshops

Words and Images
Monday 8th Sept 10-1700
Led by visiting Professor Ian McMillan an exploration of the relationship between words and images – with reflections on dialectic poets and their contributions to a sense of place. An analysis of their interpretations of the communities and landscapes they wrote about.

The Land
Tuesday 9th Sept 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley – as a response to and collaboration to the poems of Ian McMillan and Ammon Wrigley. A days location shooting – Saddleworth on the edge of the Pennine moors and Peak district contains some of the most dramatic and emotive landscape in England.
Workshop will include a large format session.

Book design
Weds 10th Sept 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley and Terry Speake - Editing words and images to form a coherent publication. Basic design and layout structure and style. At the end of the day we hoped to have created a PDF of the majority of the book.

Portraits
Thursday 11th 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley – AM. Large format studio portraits
By Invitation a selection of Saddleworth subjects to be photographed
PM action portraits working with a local primary school, football/rugby team plus any willing volunteers a series of action portraits based on Phillip Halsman Jump photo book.

Multi-media
Friday 12th 10-1700
Multi-media presentation editing/construction of a narrative
Led by Ian Beesley.
Book goes to print – exhibition fettling etc.

Book Launch (possibly)
Saturday 13th 1400-1600
Book launch –projection of multi-media

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Media Storm and RockyMountain News Cover Democratic Convention

At the Brain Storm workshop in Dalian, July 2008, Storm told Photo MA students he was hoping to start covering major events with Media Storm. The Democratic convention is the first MM of its kind and can be viewed online HERE

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Telegraph Claims UK the hardest Place to Shoot in Public

"Has our increasingly paranoid society declared war on the humble 'weekend snapper'?

An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? Sam Delaney reports. Illustration by Ulla Puggaar."...more

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Nikon and the Olympics

In a un predicted turn around Nikon competed well with Canon in the photographer's pens at the Olympics this summer as this picture demonstrates. Meanwhile Kari Kuukka took the time to shoot a 360 degree panorama to show the rest of us what it was like to be on the 100m finish line....more (it takes time to download). Spot Mr Chung!

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