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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
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Shanghai Charity Print Sale
Photography MA Graduate Sharron Lovell is helping organise a print sale in Shanghai of images from her participatory project. A photographic exhibition and print sale will be opening at Boona cafe 3 September 3rd 2008 at 6pm. There will be beautiful pictures at affordable prices for a great cause. Please come support our event!
凉山儿童摄影展及作品慈善义卖活动将于2008年9月3日Boona 3 咖啡馆举行。请支持我们！
The Malafi Photo Initiative is a small grassroots project working with 14 orphaned children in rural Sichuan Province. The project aims to provide some basic financial assistance for the children for a three-year period, and to enrich the participating children with a fun, creative experience. The project supplied cameras to 14 children who then collectively chose and worked to the visual theme My Village Life. Basic photography workshops provided children with the skills and inspiration to document their own lives through their own eyes. The workshops also acted as a platform for self expression and communication. Exhibition and print sales in Shanghai will be used to raise funds and a local exhibit in Liangshan is planned to display the work and inspire local community awareness and understanding.Labels: Events, Photo MA News
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2nd World Images Biennale At the initiative of the musée du quai Branly From September 22nd to November 22nd, 2009
Established in 2007, exclusively dedicated to non-Western photography, Photoquai is a biennial event held in Paris in odd years. The second edition incorporates the fundamental mission of Photoquai: to develop relationships with artists whose work is unprecedented in Europe, and to encourage cross-eyed lookings on the world.
The second edition will be held from September 22nd to November 22nd 2009 on the banks of the river Seine along the musée du quai Branly and into a large number of renowned Parisian institutions, partners of the event. The 2009 edition will particularly care to ensure continuity between outdoor exhibitions and exhibitions inside partner institutions. As the organizer of the event, the musée du quai Branly will programm indoor exhibitions, and dedicate a part of its garden to photography.Labels: Events
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Framing Time and Place
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Documenting the Beijing Olympics Conference
Date: 12 September 2008 Time: All Day Finishes: 13 September 2008 Time: All Day Venue: SOAS Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre This conference, scheduled to take place within weeks of the Olympics, aims to bring together academics, film-makers and writers from the all over the world to have the one of the most immediate discussions of the 2008 Olympics. Alongside the immediate, the conference will also attempt to locate the Beijing Games within Olympic history and to explore the challenges that lie ahead for the movement before the Games move to London in 2012...more Labels: Events
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Rhubarb-Rhubarb
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Contact Photo Exhibition
CONTACT 2008 examines how photography shapes our understanding of the world around us and the enduring role it plays in the preservation of individual and collective memories. A wide range of images – from the epic to the everyday – look beyond the headlines to explore private and social histories....moreLabels: Events
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Eddie Adams Workshop
Applications are now invited for the next Eddie Adams Workshop. "The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top professionals in photojournalism, along with 100 carefully selected students. The Workshop's purpose is to create a forum in which an exchange of ideas, techniques, and philosophies can be shared between both established members and newcomers of the profession of picture journalism. The Workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios." ...moreLabels: Awards/grants, Events
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UNICEF photo of the Year 2007
The American photographer Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the international photo competition “UNICEF Photo of the Year”. ...more
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Immersive Vision Conference
The aim of the meeting is to debate how best to exploit the unique qualities of dome environments to entertain and educate our audiences. We hope to attract delegates who are content producers, science educators, digital artists, IT specialists and cognitive psychologists (amongst others) and we anticipate some lively debates! ...moreLabels: Events, General, Issues
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World Press Masterclass Lecture
Respected Contact and Time Magazine photographer David Burnett talks at foam in Amsterdam to the masterclass group of this year. The video is only available until the 25th November. ...moreLabels: Events, Photojournalism
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14th Noorderlicht International Photofestival
ACT OF FAITH
On show till 28 October, Der Aa-kerk, Groningen, the Netherlands
Act of Faith: for one, heaven; for another hell. But one thing is certain: the Noorderlicht event on religion is being talked about, both regarding its design and its content. More than ever before, this year Noorderlicht has emphatically chosen for experimentation. Act of Faith puts the image center stage. Call it poetic, call it irritating, call it impressionistic, call it visual swill, call it a truly Babylonian confusion of voices: it is certainly a tour through photography.
WITH: In our own Noorderlicht Photogallery Children of Abraham, the globe-spanning report on the role of religion in society, by the Magnum photographer Abbas. In the Center for Visual Arts: Material World, about religion without God.
Read more...http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/index.html
Noorderlicht organizes various activities through October:
>>http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/activities.html
Book launch and public interview Lana Slezic
Saturday 6 October, 4 PM, Der Aa-kerk
Emile Fallaux, editor in chief of Vrij Nederland, speaks with Lana Slezic and Farzana Wahidy in a public interview. (English)
For two years (2004-2006) Lana Slezic documented the lives of women in Afghanistan after the expulsion of the Taliban. From her travels through the country and conversations that she had with women as she moved around, it became clear that Afghanistan was still a ruthless tribal state in which, certainly outside Kabul, women and girls were the foremost victims. Slezic's series Forsaken tells the story that they themselves cannot tell. Lana Slezic's translator and good friend in Afghanistan, Farzana Wahidy who has left Afghanistan recently, will be present at the interview as well.
Photojournalist Lana Slezic (b. 1973, Canada) has published in newspapers and periodicals such as The Sunday Times, Paris Match and The New York Times. Her first photo book Forsaken is published by Mets & Schilt.
Photobook Market
Saturday 6 October, 11 AM - 17 PM, Der Aa-kerk
A photobook market with dealers specializing in antiquarian and new books, including Markus Schaden, from Cologne. Unusual and rare books, for the layman and the connoisseur. The auction house Wish4books and auctioneer Geert Postma will hold a preview of original photographs and unusual photo books which will be coming up for auction later this year.
Lecture Michael Shaowanasai
Sunday 14 October, 16.00, Der Aa-kerk
Shaowanasai is a pioneer in the alternative Thai art circuit. Act of Faith
shows two photos from his series 'Portraits of a Man in Habits' on
homosexuality in Buddhism. In 2006 he participated in the Noorderlicht
exhibition Another Asia.
Film Program
> 4 films from Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich
16, 18, 23 & 25 October with the prizewinning 'De Stand van de Maan' and ‘Promised Paradise’
> ‘Fur – an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus’
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September 2 PM
> ‘Jesus Camp’
Thursday 25 thru Wednesday 31 October
and films by Anton Corbijn, Steven Shainberg and Jennifer Baichwal.
For more information and addresses see: http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/index.html
Recently published:
Catalogue Act of Faith
Published in twelve different covers
Hardcover, fullcolor and duotone
Size 15x23cm, 368 pages
Dutch/English
ISBN 978-90-76703-32-9
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MA Students Exhibit in Beijing
Three MA Photography students based in China were invited by the government on a tour of Inner Mongolia recently. Their work has since been selected for an exhibition in Beijing, China.
The exhibition is at the National Art Museum and runs for a week from 21st September and is called 'Prettiness Inner Mongolia' and celebrates 60 years of Inner Mongolia as an autonomous region.Labels: Awards/grants, Events, Gallery/slideshow, Photo MA News
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Media Boycott Rugby World Cup
AP, Reuters and AFP have boycotted the Rugby World Cup in response to the IRB's request
that, amongst other things, no more than 40 images be posted online from matches in progress, and a limit of three minutes on news conference or locker-room video posted online.
Read more here...Labels: Events, Issues, Photojournalism
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Magnum: New Blood Exhibition
Magnum are running a print sales exhibition entitled 'New Blood':
"This exhibition brings together the work of Magnum's new blood; five Associate Members: Antoine D'Agata, Jonas Bendiksen, Trent Parke, Mark Power and Alec Soth. As a group, they embody the evolution of documentary photography, from traditional photojournalism to a more art-based practise, and reflect the diversity that continues to distinguish the agency."
Stills Gallery, NSW Australia
22 August - 22 September 2007
For those of us not in Australia, you can view over 50 images in a slideshow on the Magnum website.Labels: Events, Gallery/slideshow, Photojournalism
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Visa Pour L'Image Starts Today
For those of you who are going to Perpignan for the 19th International Festival of Photojournalism starting today for a two weeks, have fun! For those of you who aren't and are in the region get yourself along to the annual industry shindig and see some amazing exhibitions, talks, slideshows and more.
Check out the website for more details.Labels: Events
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Is Western Media Coverage of China Stale and Cliched?
Media Talk: Has western coverage of the China story become stale and cliched?
In interesting talk on the state and effect of Western media's coverage of China at The Frontline Club in London on August 23rd at 7:30pm.
Guest speakers include:
Rob Gifford – former China correspondent for NPR, author of China Road: a Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.
Duncan Hewitt - BBC correspondent in China from 1997 to 2002. He now writes for Newsweek and other publications from Shanghai, and is the author of Getting Rich First: Life in a changing China.
Catherine Sampson – former China correspondent for The Times , author of The Pool of Unease.
Lifen Zhang - Editor, FTChinese.com, Financial Times. Previously worked for the BBC as a journalist, producer, news editor and journalism trainer.Labels: Events, Issues, Photojournalism
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Photo MA Staff v Students Footy Match
As part of the Photography MA second semester intensive lecture fortnight, guest lecturers and photographers took on the students in the inaugural Staff v Students match in Dalian, China. See it to believe it!
For the record - it is claimed that the Staff team won 2-1!Labels: Events, Gallery/slideshow, Photo MA News
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Ian Parry Scholarship Exhibition
The Ian Parry Scholarship 2007 exhibition runs from the 3rd August to the 11th August at the Getty Images Gallery, London.
You can see Ivor Prickett's winning portfolio as well as the other finalist's work and a selection of single images from other entrants including Photography MA graduate Adam Dean's image from Mongolia below.
"Almost all of the work entered was very political but when I was a young photographer I was told to shut my mouth about the political side. Now, people are more aware, they are communicating more and these photographers are sending us work of real concern" Don McCullin, Patron
WINNER OF THE IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP 2007: Ivor Prickett Highly Commended: Liz Rubincam Commended: Gareth Phillips Commended: Liz Hingley Honorable Mention: Dominic Nahr
UPDATE: You can read the article about the Awards and winning images in The Sunday Times Magazine and view a selection of images in a multimedia slideshow.Labels: Awards/grants, Events, Gallery/slideshow, Photo MA News, Photojournalism
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MA Photography Graduate Chosen for Exhibition
Following his exhibition at Photo Espana this year, photography MA graduate
Markel Redondo has had a series of good news. Firstly he was accepted on to
the prestigious Eddie Adams workshop in New York, then he heard his
exhibition was accepted at next year's Ankor festival in Cambodia and
finally he was offered a paid internship at Spanish national paper El Mundo.
Image by Markel Redondo from series Chinese TouristsLabels: Awards/grants, Events, Issues, Photo MA News
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Magnum: The Early Years
This year sees the 60th Anniversary of Magnum Photos with various festivities in New York. Inge Bondi, who worked for Magnum for 20 years, looks back at the early years of the agency in an insightful article here.Labels: Events, Photojournalism
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Nachtwey Award Video
James Nachtwey recently won a TED award for his work and a project he is working on. Have a look at the video here of his acceptance speech and presentation of some of his work over the years.Labels: Awards/grants, Events, Gallery/slideshow, Issues
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Cameras in Conflict Discussion
The Frontline Club in London is hosting a talk on 12th July at 6:30pm:
Cameras in conflict: the changing face of war photography
With Horst Faas, two-times Pulitzer-prize winning photographer and former picture editor of AP, Oded Balilty, AP's Jerusalem-based staff photographer and Santiago Lyon, AP's director of photography.
Read more here or register here.Labels: Events, Issues
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Spencer Platt Interview
2007 World Press Photo Picture of The Year winner, Spencer Platt is interviewed here about life behind the lens.Labels: Awards/grants, Events, Photojournalism
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