Photo MA

Dave Wyatt Publishes Thames Town Project in Telegraph

2010-03-06T19:10:00.000-08:00

Photo MA Graduate Dave Wyatt has continued success with his Thames Town project shot in Shanghai while studying in China for the year. The work was published with his text in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine and will be later published in Portfolio Catalogue as a counterpoint to Nadav Kander's China series.

Becky and Clare continue to publish My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding

2010-03-03T18:06:00.000-08:00

After featuring the story 'My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding' in Marie Clare UK, Korea, South Africa and Thailand, Photo MA graduates Becky Matthews and Clare Struthers story has now scooped a 'Highly Commended' in the Quality of Life category of the CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 awards. This year the British Journal of Photography (http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=873511) featured our project over three pages of its magazine (24/02/2010) and it will also appear in this months edition of American womens magazine Bust.

More at Becky Matthews: www.beckymattews.co.uk & Clare Struthers www.clarestruthers.co.uk/

Adam Dean Closes in on Awards

2010-03-03T04:43:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Adam Dean whose work from Afghanistan has been shortlisted for the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards in the Current Affairs category and will be exhibited in Cannes, France in April. He was also shortlisted in the top 5 for the POYI Magazine/Agency photographer of the year.

Adam continues to be based in Beijing and works regularly for Bloomberg and the Daily Telegraph as well as occasional commissions for other leading newspapers and magazines. He will be heading to Mongolia on 4th March until 20th March then returning to Beijing before heading back to Afghanistan from 19 April for the summer.

Ade Baba Creates Movie with Bolton Museum

2010-02-22T01:52:00.000-08:00

Photo MA Graduate Ade Baba has produced a new film production with Bolton Museum.

Nick Kozak In Haiti

2010-01-22T19:50:00.000-08:00

Photo MA graduate Nick Kozak arrived in Haiti soon after the earthquake to cover the story for various publications. See more of his images ...HERE

Andrew Smith covers the AA air crash

2009-12-24T03:04:00.000-08:00

Photo MA graduate Andrew Smith reacted quickly when he first got wind of the breaking news of the crashed American Airlines plane in Kingston for Reuters Tuesday night. The photos have appeared throughout the world including in the NYTimes & on MSNBC website.

Duarte Is First to Publish

2009-12-23T06:30:00.000-08:00

Just three days after completing his final project for the Photography MA in Dalian, Duarte Villas was approached by the Beijing News who bought his story and published it the next day. ...more

Adam Dean Celebrates a busy 2009

2009-12-23T05:40:00.000-08:00

Photo MA Graduate Adam Dean celebrates a very busy 2009 with lots of stories in China and multiple trips to Afghanistan and North Korea!

2009 The Year In Pictures

http://www.adamdean.net/2009

LEAP

2009-12-09T16:07:00.000-08:00

The Leap project is a collaboration between Bolton Lads and Girls Club and students of the MA Photography course at the University of Bolton.

An 80-page book of the Leap project is available to buy at theleapproject.co.uk. All proceeds go to the club.

Boris AustinRuns a UNICEF Workshop

2009-12-09T06:09:00.000-08:00

Photo MA graduate Boris Austin just completed a workshop training UNICEF staff in photography. Boris explains the process, "the overall goal was to equip team members with the skills and knowledge to take high quality documentary-style digital photography including portraits whilst in the field. Images will be used in UNICEF’s publications and reports.

The intensive workshop focused on environmental portraiture and photo essays, both technically and creatively. The participants were staff journalists who had specialities such as "water and sanitation" or "public health and immunization" so we also took into account the specific kinds of photos each of them would need to learn to take. The heads of Communications team watched a final presentation and said they thought is was highly successful".

Grace Gelder to at Exhibit at The Goethe Institute in Riga.

2009-11-30T20:14:00.000-08:00

Photo MA graduate Grace Gelder has been invited to exhibit new work from Latvi at The Goethe Institute in Riga. The Opening of the ISSP 2009 Exhibition will take place on 3 December 2009, 18:30 at Goethe-Institute Riga, Torņu iela 1.
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Boris Austin wins Gold

2009-11-16T21:23:00.000-08:00

Photo MA Graduate and photographer Boris Austin has one the top prize in The London Photographic associations "Love Pain and beauty competition". This makes it his fourth award in one years for the photography project he completed as part of his MA photography degree in China.

Sara Gouveia develops a freelance career in South Africa

2009-11-16T21:13:00.000-08:00

Photo MA graduate Sara Gouveia has been making good progress with her photography & filmmaking career in South Africa. Left is one article published in an Italian magazine as an example of a number of new commissions.

She is also developing promotion videos some of which are on her youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/TheJigsawproductions

Boris Austin Publishes in Onze Wereld

2009-11-04T15:18:00.000-08:00

Following the success of Dalian Photo MA Students winning a Golden Mercur Award for Best Photo Reportage in a 30 page spread in Onze Wereld Magazine in 2008, the magazine has once again used one of the featured photographers, Boris Austin, for a cover story. Since winning the award Boris has taken on a number of professional commissions including being on regular assignments for Stern Magazine.

Nick Kozak Launches New Blog

2009-10-29T19:17:00.001-07:00

Photo MA Graduate Nick Kozak has launched a new photography blog ..more

Dave Wyatt Featured by Host Gallery

2009-10-27T03:12:00.000-07:00

Dave Wyatt is featured on the Host Gallery blog following a portfolio review at Rhubarb Rhubarb.

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Nick Kozak Illustrates Catalogue

2009-10-16T07:05:00.000-07:00

Photo MA Graduate Nick Kozak has recently completed illustrating a catalogue for a major art exhibition in Toronto. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto commissioned internationally acclaimed video artist Candice Breitz to complete a project in Toronto for her Same Same exhibition, which also features 10 of her previous works. Factum, a project about identical twins was filmed between May and June 2009. Nick Kozak documented the process. The Power Plant catalogue for the show contains over a 100 of Nick's images and provides a unique and complementary (to the actual video installations) look at the project.

http://www.thepowerplant.org/

BBC Publishes Julia's Project

2009-10-04T03:50:00.001-07:00

The BBC News website has published Photo MA graduate Julia Horbaschk's project on East Germans, to mark the anniversary of the reunification.

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Dave Wyatt showcases Thames Town

2009-09-27T16:52:00.000-07:00

Photo MA graduate Dave Wyatt showcases his Thames Town project from Shanghai in Shutterspark ...more

Students Complete Term 2 Projects

2009-09-08T17:40:00.000-07:00

Photo MA students in China have now completed term 2 Multimedia projects. Above and below are some examples

Glamour in China by Jerry Leo (above)
Engraved Ink by Ana Brigida
Boss by Joseph Bolt
Jute Mills Strikes by Robin Fall
Endangered Species by Alex Thomas
Copy Shop by Sun Peng

An Audience with Arts and Health

2009-09-08T17:35:00.000-07:00

Multimedia Debate

2009-09-05T02:26:00.000-07:00

A discussion on Beyond the slideshow....What is the future of multimedia? was held in Beijing in association with Open-i moderated by Photo MA China Cohort course leader D J Clark. The discussion was broadcast live (available to listen again HERE). Visiting lecturers Brian Storm and Huang Wen joined with Dan Chung from the Guardian to discuss the future of multimedia news.

Becky and Claire publish in Marie Claire

2009-09-05T01:51:00.000-07:00

Clare Struthers and Becky Matthews traveled to Uganda in January 2009 to cover the seminal mass wedding of six Acholi tribes women in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pader. The wedding was possible thanks to the generous donation of 54 wedding dresses by brides from Lancashire. This act of generosity acts as a symbol of hope for a community ripped apart by two decades of civil war.

Their story is being told in this month's (October) edition of Marie Claire magazine pages 19, and 124-128. Unfortunately the magazine managed to omit Clare's byline but this was a joint project from start to finish.

The image is from the series "My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding" has also won a "Highly Commended" in the "Quality of Life" category of the CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 competition. The work will be exhibited at the Bedfordbury Gallery in London's Covent Garden before going on tour around the country.

Our work can be seen at: www.clarestruthers.co.uk/ www.beckymatthews.co.uk

Adam Dean Featured in Digital Journalist

2009-08-16T23:54:00.000-07:00

Photo MA Graduate Adam's coverage of the Urumqi riots is featured in this month's edition of Digital Journalist...more

2009-08-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

THE HUMPHREY SPENDER JOHN MARRIOT SCHOLARSHIP FOR SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY 2009

The Spender archive of photographs from Mass Observation’s Work Town project is regarded internationally as one of the most important archives in the development of British documentary photography. As part of the University of Bolton and Bolton Council’s initiative to develop a research centre based around the Spender archive, the University is proud to announce the launch of the Humphrey Spender John Marriot scholarship for social documentary photography.

The aim of the scholarship is to enable a recent postgraduate photography student to produce a sustained body of social documentary photography that re-interprets and contextualises some of the images/issues held within the Work Town archive.

Submissions for the scholarship 2009/10 are invited on the theme of ’”holidays”’
(Holidays in this context are defined as official or unofficial observances of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities and or a general leave of absence from a regular occupation for rest or recreation - but only within the area of Bolton).

Applicants must research the relevant Spender images held in the archive at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery. In addition they must submit a written proposal (one side of A4) for the re-interpretation and contextualisation of the theme holiday, along with a brief CV and a portfolio of no more than 8 images.

Criteria
• Applicant must have studied at postgraduate level;
• Must reside in the North West;
• All the work produced MUST be within Bolton Council geographic boundaries that Humphrey Spender worked in.

Outcomes
• An exhibition of the work;
• Successful applicant to deliver a paper at the Spender conference;
• Successful applicant to deliver a number of workshop or talks to current postgraduate and undergraduate students, Rotary Club Bolton Le Moors, Marriot Trust. All workshops will acknowledge the Marriot as the donor trust;
• Keep a detailed journal of the project, again the photographer will acknowledge the donor trust.
• Contacts of all the work and a selection of exhibition prints to be deposited in the Museum archive;
• The photographer will retain the copyright, however the University of Bolton and Bolton Council will reserve the right of free access to publish any of the images in relation to the scholarship, the archive, the research centre and studying at the University.

Fee
Photographers fee £3,000 plus £1,000 for materials

Deadline for Applications
Applications must be received by Tuesday 1st September 2009

Please forward all applications to:
Ian Beesley
Programme leader MA Photography
University of Bolton
School of Arts, Media and Education
Eagle Tower
Deane Campus
Bolton BL3 4AB