As of Monday 18th May I will be moving the industry news section of the blog (Awards/grantsEquipmentEventsGallery/slideshowGeneralIssuesPhoto MA NewsPhotojournalismwork) to my twitter feed. Most of the stories I have been posting are simply links to existing stories on the web, and I can provide these links much more efficiently using twitter. The MA News will continue to be blogged at this site, as well as through the twitter feed.
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Earthquake Anniversary Special on assignment for Stern Magazine
Setting out to find and interview the survivors, Photo MA graduate Boris Austin flew to MianYang to join Journalist Janis Vougioukas and his assistant.
In under 10 days they were challenged with finding 10 people who featured in iconic news images of the earthquake to find out how their lives had changed..more.
Many familiar videos are featured in the webby awards video journalism categories. Ken Kobre makes it really simple by providing a page of links directly to the videos...more
Photo MA graduate Dave Wyatt is showing work from his time in China on the 1000 Words Photography Magazine Blog.
"Thames town is an English style new satellite town built close to Shanghai as part of the local governments ‘One City –Nine Towns’ plan. This plan was hatched out of the population boom being experienced in Shanghai. In the past 15 years the population has increased by 8 million and the landmass it covers has increased from 100sqkm to a staggering 680sqkm. Despite this growth Shanghai is still four times as densely populated as New York. The ‘One City –Nine Towns’ plan seeks to construct nine satellite towns around Shanghai. Six of these towns are to be themed on European style cities from the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Italy. These images document the beginning of the next great revolution within China, a suburban revolution as the new middle class within China seeks to make use of their new found financial freedom." ...more
This multimedia project - photographed, with audio and video, by Photo MA Graduate Sharron Lovell, and produced by David Campbell - tells the story of three families of Chinese migrant labourers in Shanghai, and the struggles they face as undocumented internal migrants.
China's massive economic growth has both created and been fueled by the world's largest peacetime migration, with 200 million people moving from the countryside to the city.
However, because of the 'hukou' or household registration system in China, internal migrants are often in a legal limbo, denied access to local social services, and discriminated against by both the state and private employers. This project reveals how three families have dealt with this situation.
Traveling on China’s ‘desertification train’ on the K117-T69-K886 route that dissects China’s major northern deserts (The Gobi, Taklamakan and Badain Jaran) from Beijing, on the east coast of China, to Kashgar, on the western borders, photojournalist Sean Gallagher reports on the various implications of desertification on people’s lives across the breadth of China....more
'To Mark a Prayer: Uyghur Mazar' contemplates the holy sites of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. Ross skillfully handles this delicate subject matter through her images, thereby granting us an intimate view of the sacred....more
Taken between 1870 and 1871 by the Scottish photographer John "China" Thomson, the images reveal with often startling intimacy a cast of characters from orphans and street gamblers, to beautiful peasant girls and their high-born ladies.
Hailed as a pioneer of photojournalism, Thomson spent two years travelling more than 5,000 miles in pursuit of the images that historians say are unique in their empathy towards their subjects....more
In early 2009, Photo MA students Becky Matthews and Clare Struthers traveled to an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pader, Northern Uganda, to meet and document six Acholi tribes women as they married at a seminal mass ceremony. During twenty years of civil war these women have suffered the most losing their homes and livelihoods. Often facing abduction, abject poverty, sexual abuse, mutilation and death. Following the 2006 peace process, relative calm has been restored to the region. The wedding of these six women is symbolic of the new start facing all women in Uganda, as they form the foundation for stronger communities and a stronger country....more
Project 29 is a personal project by Photo MA graduate Peter Carney, documenting the 365 days of his 29th and final year of his twenties. Having spent the last four years in Asia, Peter has now moved back to the UK and is at a critical point in his life. Adapting to being back in Europe, looking for work but also contemplating a move back to Asia, it is sure to be an eventful year.
Peter Carney is a freelance photograher curently based in the UK....more
Award-winning Guardian photographer Sean Smith has photographed in Iraq since the beginning of the conflict on 20 March 2003. His work there has won awards and been published internationally. Here we present an overview of his time there to date ...more
52 full-page color portraits of the vice president-elect and the incoming president’s advisers, aides and cabinet secretaries-designate (some of whom may have been confirmed or may have withdrawn by the time you read this), along with those legislators who are likely to prove influential in helping to usher into law what the new administration sets out to do. (President-elect Obama declined to pose for a formal picture.) The portraits were taken in mid-December and earlier this month in Chicago and Washington by Nadav Kander. See an MM of it ....more
Photo Ma graduate Pete Carney has recommended Burn Magazine as a good source of information. They also have a large fund for emerging photographers. The site is curated by David Alan Harvey. .
Rolling Stone Magazine has published a new photo essay Ethiopia's Nomad Warriors: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado, a journey to Africa's most remote tribes, whose way of life remains untouched since ancient times ...more
Photo MA graduate Adam Dean had a projection of his Bhutto Assassination, Sichuan Earthquake and Burma Cyclone images on the large screen at Perpignan last week.
Also along with 4 other photographers from Bloomberg he got the Honorable Mention in the SOPA awards for his coverage of Bhutto's last few months.
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).
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
Caroline Edge recently travelled to Novosibirsk Siberia to photograph the Solar eclipse and attend the opening of her exhibition at the No Soap gallery. She gave a talk on photography and spiritual experience through a translator and was interviewed for the local newspaper, and for national radio (Radio Mayak). More information on blog and website.
Photo MA graduate Simon Bowcock continues to enjoy success from his final project. Below are some links to press reviews,
The Guardian newspaper ran a 2 page feature on 9th August. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/aug/08/people.lost.in.music British Journal of Photography 6th August http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=808384 Metro newspaper review: http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=239813&in_page_id=241&in_a_source Ag International Journal of Photographic Art and Practice no 52 BBC Radio Interview 5th August
Laura’s work is a personal account of her experiences with internet dating. After answering personal ads in Beijing men’s lonely heart sites, she recorded her preparation, journeys and meetings, which are exhibited along with extracts from her shooting diary. Laura started the project to research the effects of China’s imbalance in the ratio of men to women, which is causing many men to use the internet to broaden their search to find their perfect match.
Through her portrait series of professional Mongolian women, Grace seeks to challenge the perception of Mongolia as an under-developed country dominated by a rural nomadic population. Over half of the 2.9 million inhabitants now live in an urban environment, mostly in the capital Ulanbaataar. Statistics from a UN report last year show that out of 115 Countries surveyed, Mongolia came top for women’s participation in the professional and technical workforce. This project shows a variety of roles that women play in Mongolian society by photographing them in their working environment. ...more
With media coverage for China now focused on the Beijing Olympics, to provide an alternative view of the Chinese and what's on their mind, Digital Railroad member Adrian Fisk makes his "iSpeak China" story set available exclusively in the US through Marketplace.
"For the last few centuries the west has dominated economics, politics and culture. But now there is a shift towards the east, in particular China, a country of 1.4 billion people of which we know little about. It is the young Chinese who will inherit this new found global influence, but who they and what do they think about life. I have just returned from a 12500 km journey through China to find an answer to this question. I looked for young Chinese aged from 16 – 30 years, gave them a piece of paper and simply told them they could write what ever they wanted to on the piece of paper. The results were fascinating."
Each image includes a brief bio about each person depicted in the series and a translation from the Chinese (where needed) for each quote or reflection provided by the subject.
"Opening Friday, 26 July, at 5:00 p.m., by Cees Hendrikse, connoisseur, collector and curator of contemporary Chinese art, with the photographers Koen Wessing and Niels Stomps present. Seven photographers reflect on the unprecedented changes now taking place in China's economy" ...more
This month the Digital Journalist, edited by MA Photo visiting lecturer Dirck Halstead, is running a speacial feature on the work of John Moore. The galleries and videos demonstrate a successful contemporary mobile journalist at work...more
"It’s back! The best multimedia storytelling showcase on the Web, founded by Andrew DeVigal 5 years ago this month, has re-launched under the sponsorship of the Online News Association.
For those of you unfamiliar with IN, Andrew launched the site as a personal bookmarking system to track multimedia packages as he lectured and conducted workshops at The Poynter Institute and other venues around the country. (He later became a journalism professor at San Francisco State University.) " ...more
Photo MA graduate Sharron Lovell has recently produced two new online multi media slide shows on the Sichuan Earthquake and China's Female Imam's. To watch them click HERE
Magnum have partnered up with The Global fund to make a large multimedia body of work focusing on antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. I have posted a link on my blog so go there for more information and the link to the website. ..more
"Through five years of war, a team of 100 Reuters correspondents, photographers, cameramen and support staff has strived to deliver news to the world from Iraq – the most dangerous country for the press. These are their personal stories, bearing witness through half a decade of conflict which has taken the lives of 127 journalists, including seven Reuters colleagues."....more
FOTOFEST 2008 focuses on one of the most compelling cultural, political, and economic phenomena of the contemporary world - China and its transformation....more
Current MA Photography student Rui Pestana was in Macau to celebrate Chinese New Year and filed this multimedia report to Portuguese newspaper Público for publication...more (click on "O novo ao Chinês em Macau")
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...more
The Premio de Fotografía Humanitaria Luis Valtueña photography competition that includes images from Adam Dean's Mongolia children's project are now online...more
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 .
Photo Histories a new website is launched to "will become a home for entertaining and thought provoking stories about photography and a vehicle that, by looking into the past with a spirit of enquiry, might begin to help us map some sort of path into the uncertain future of the medium." ...more
David Hoffmann's contribution to the annual East London Photomonth festival attempts to redress the imbalance he feels from seeing the Tate’s How We Are exhibition. More here
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.
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
Have a look at a recent Media Matters video report with footage, interviews and pictures of Jeff Mermelstein and Kathy Ryan shooting on the streets of New York. Video 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis has covered the Iraq war for the Los Angeles Times and you can see the multimedia slide-show with narration of his time in Iraq since the beginning of the war through to the effect it is having on returning soldiers.
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.
Thanks to David at Lightstalkers for highlighting the new series of photo podcasts launched by the excellent HOST gallery in London. They start off with a presentation by Simon Norfolk followed by a Q&A session led by Jon Levy of foto8. You can choose between audio only or video. Click here to check it out.
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.
Jonas Bendiksen, one of Magnum's younger members, has won the National Magazine Award for his beautiful project "Kibera" which was originally published in the Paris Review.
There are more images from the series on the Magnum website and Earlier in the year he did a story on Dharavi, Mumbai's largest slum for National Geographic.
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