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China under Snow Slideshow
The Financial Times have posted a slide show ofg images depicting China suffering from the great freeze ...moreLabels: Gallery/slideshow
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Image Banks in Trouble
Blog from The Venture Company suggest that Getty and digital Railroad may have misjudged the market...more and another article ...hereLabels: Issues
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Police warn about questioning street photographers
Humberside police have backed up officers who stopped and questioned a street photographer who they saw as acting suspiciously....moreLabels: Issues
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Millions of MySpace Photos made Available
A 17 GB Bit Torrent download has been made available of millions of pictures that have been stolen from My Space accounts and offered for free ...more
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New York Times Citizen Journalism Project
The New York Times is encouraging its readers to shoot pictures of their voting experiences at Polling stations across the country ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Bloggers once again critisise the staging of images
Hamas leadership who lit candles for photographers to express solidarity with the people of Gaza (left without electricity after an Israeli embargo) are picked up by bloggers complaining about the staging of photos....more
Posted at 1:51 AM
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Preparing for the Olympics
Adam Pretty discusses how he is preparing to cover the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing & Spencer Platt talks about winning th WPP award ....moreLabels: Photojournalism
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Lost Capa Negatives Returned
After some years of speculation and negotiation the missing Robert Capa negatives are returned to the International Centre for Photography in New York....moreLabels: General
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Move Me
Dalian 2007 MA Photogrpahy cohort student Julia Horbaschk has had a picture chosen for 'MoveMe' a project by Islington Council to promote cycling in London.
The project will exhibit at Rainbird Fine Art Gallery (near Farringdon tube station) from 26 February until 1 March and there will also be a 'commerative book of postcards'.Labels: Photo MA News
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Newsday comes out high in news websites thanks to cartoons
Long Island based newspaper Newsday's website has been performing exceptionally well ranking in the top five of all newspaper websites for the second month in a row. The reason has not been attributed to innovative multimedia story telling but in fact multi media cartoons...moreLabels: Gallery/slideshow, Issues
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Bolton Cohort MA Photography Exhibition Opens
2007 graduating students had their graduation exhibition at the prestigious Richard Goodall Gallery in the Northern Quarter Manchester.
The gallery is one of the most important independent photography galleries in the UK hosting shows by many international photographers.Labels: Photo MA News
Posted at 11:53 PM
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Dean Bhutto aftermath picture features as Time magazine picture of the week
One of Adam Dean's (Dalian MA Photography cohort 2006) images from the aftermath of Bhutto assassination has featured in a Time Magazine online slide show of the pictures of the week ...moreLabels: Photo MA News
Posted at 12:07 AM
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Sara Gouveia to publish Mosuo Project
Dalian 2007 cohort student Sara Gouveia is to publish a story she worked on while in China on the Mosuo in a Portuguese magazine called Visão.Labels: Photo MA News
Posted at 7:58 PM
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Getty For Sale
"Getty Images, the world's biggest supplier of photographs and movies to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block and could bring in more than $1.5 billion, people briefed on the situation said." ...moreLabels: General, Issues
Posted at 4:43 PM
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YouTube Video of 21 Days to Bagdad
James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Yuri Kozyrev and Kate Brooks talk about the Book: "21 Days to Baghdad"...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
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Humanistic Photography Competition Winners Gallery
The Premio de Fotografía Humanitaria Luis Valtueña photography competition that includes images from Adam Dean's Mongolia children's project are now online...moreLabels: Awards/grants, Gallery/slideshow
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OnRequest Images teams up with Magnum
OnRequest Images has teamed up with Magnum sending shockwaves through the photojournalist community. Many see this as a sign of increased competition to win editorial commissions. ...moreLabels: Issues, Photojournalism
Posted at 1:53 AM
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Multimedia Competition
Journalism.co.uk website is launching a multimedia competition for travel related multimedia journalism. Deadline is 18th January and the prize is a nice bag?...moreLabels: Awards/grants
Posted at 5:15 AM
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Corbis Developing New Pricing Model
Corbis has applied for a patent for a new pricing model that takes into account a number of variables to come up with an RF price....moreLabels: General, Issues
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PA supplies national video news to Newsquest regional newspapers
UK wire Agency PA is to start to supply video to regional dailies including The Bolton Evening News. This happens as part of an international trend towards using multimedia on newspaper websites....more
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Good News for IView Users
Since Microsoft bought image management software IView there has been little development and rumors that Microsoft would stop supporting Macs. The new Mac release of Microsoft Office however brings good news to those that stuck with the software as Microsoft has included Expression Media (the new version of IView) into a special Office Media suite....moreLabels: Equipment
Posted at 2:56 AM
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2007 Graduates Success
Since finishing the course just three weeks ago a number of MA Photography students have found a place for the final project work. Gemma Thorpe has been invited as a collaborator on a book called 'Watercube', with Ethel Baraona Pohl. The book focuses on the sustainable development of Watercube, the National Swimming Centre for the Olympic Games and will be published in Spanish and English across Europe in March. Sara Gouveia is having her work exhibited in Almada, Portugal in March. Grace Gelder is publishing her final story in the Dutch magazine "One World". Boris Austin has published in the Gothenburg times, Sweden's 2nd largest paper as well as in Dalian's peninsula paper and Sharron Lovell had a picture published in newsweek over the new year and has three other pictures published in a National Geographic publication "Inside China".Labels: Photo MA News
Posted at 2:35 AM
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Student Project Chosen for Award Exhibition
Images from Adam Dean's final project in Mongolia has been selected for the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award Exhibition and will be touring Spain and Europe over the next two years. The Awards Ceremony and exhibition opening will take place in Naves del Barranco, Calle Arjona nº 28, 41001 Sevilla, on the 14th of January 2008.Labels: Awards/grants, Photo MA News
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Faked Tiger Images Causes Stir in China
Two images of a "functionally extinct" tiger have been causing a lot press interest in China over the last month. It looks now like the images were faked in photoshop in order to claim a reward offered by the local government for pictures of a wild tiger. ...moreLabels: Issues
Posted at 2:18 AM
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World Picture News Multimedia
WpN has recently launched a multimedia news service with stories from its network of photographers. More hereLabels: Gallery/slideshow, Photojournalism
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Slide show at the Lowry
Past student Mishka Henner is organising a slide show at the lowry Gallery in Manchester and is asking for photographers to submit work for consideration. The show will happen on the 31st January, all are welcome to submit, more details .Labels: Gallery/slideshow, Photo MA News
Posted at 7:22 PM
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China Internaitonal Press Photo Contest (CHIPP2007)
The China Internaitonal Press Photo Contest (CHIPP2007) is now calling for entries. Entry forms and more information at http://www.chipp.cn with a top prize of 10,000 US Dollars.Labels: Awards/grants
Posted at 7:15 PM
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Adam Dean covers Bhutto Assasination
Past MA student Adam Dean was one of only a few photographers to have been covering the Bhutto rally at the time she was assassinated. His pictures can be found by visiting his agency site http://www.worldpicturenews.com/web/ and doing an image search on Dean and Bhutto.Labels: Photo MA News, Photojournalism
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New York Times Picture of the Year
The New York Times have posted their pictures of the year with some voice commentary by winning photographers. ...moreLabels: Gallery/slideshow, Photojournalism
Posted at 1:37 AM
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