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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Martin Parr Talks on Flickr

Parr interview ...here no need for much more?

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Thursday, November 13, 2008
New Salgado Essay

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

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Saturday, September 27, 2008
New James Nachtwey Story breaking on October 3

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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Adam Projects at Perpignan

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.

Category: Excellence in News Photography
Honorable Mention: Bloomberg News - "Bhutto"
Comment: Stunning images, striking moments
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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
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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Monday, August 25, 2008
Caroline exhibits work in Siberia

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.

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Julia to Exhibit in Brighton

Photo MA graduate Julia Horbaschk will exhibit her final MA work at the Brighton Photo Fringe this year.









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Friday, August 22, 2008
Bowcock in the Press

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

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Two Graduates Exhibit Final Work


NEW PERSPECTIVES: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM CHINA AND MONGOLIA By Grace Gelder & Laura Mccallum

Wed 13 - Thurs 28 Aug - Balcony Gallery - Lighthouse

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

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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Interactive Portraits of China

great portrait series on china - click the map to see pics from each
province ...more

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Photographer Project around China

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.

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Monday, July 21, 2008
Sichuan Earthquake Charity Photo Projection

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Thursday, July 17, 2008
CHINA GOES The Rise of a New World Power

"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

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Monday, July 14, 2008
John Moore Special

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

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Friday, July 11, 2008
The Resurrection of Interactive Narratives

"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

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Saturday, June 28, 2008
China's Female Imam's - New Slideshow

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

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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Access To Life

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

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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Boris Exhibits in Dalian

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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Reuters Bear Witness to Iraq

"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

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Sunday, March 16, 2008
People's Park

Kurt Tong recalls his childhood as he visits China's forgotten parks...more

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Monday, March 3, 2008
Fotofest concentrates on China

FOTOFEST 2008 focuses on one of the most compelling cultural, political, and economic phenomena of the contemporary world - China and its transformation....more

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Sunday, March 2, 2008
What Families Eat Around the World

A very simple but powerful use of photography depicting an average family's food buy in different countries around the world ...more

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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Chinese New year in Macau

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")

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Stranded in the Middle Ground

Photojournalist Greg Constantine's story features his work on the stateless Dalit or 'untouchables' in the Terai of southern Nepal ...more

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Monday, February 25, 2008
Sean Smith wins Royal Television Society Award

Guardian photographer and film maker Sean Smith has won a television award for a multimedia piece from Iraq....more

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Thursday, January 31, 2008
China under Snow Slideshow

The Financial Times have posted a slide show ofg images depicting China suffering from the great freeze ...more

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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...more

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Monday, January 21, 2008
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...more

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
World Picture News Multimedia

WpN has recently launched a multimedia news service with stories from its network of photographers. More here

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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 .

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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. ...more

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Inside-Out Exhibition


MA Graduate Della Batchelor will be staging an exhibition of her final MA work at
North City Library, Rochdale Road. M9 4AF opens January 10th 6pm

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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Photo Histories

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

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
China Smokestack

Excellent multimedia story on New York times website. ...more

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Colin Mcpherson Masterclass

Masterclass created with soundslides on how Colin went about photographing a documentary project on fishing in Scotland ...more

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Simon Norfolk Interview Again

Another great interactive interview with prolific photographer Simon Norfolk this time talking about his work for the New York Times. See it HERE

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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Photo Editor's Anonymous Blog

A Photography Director based in New York City who can't give his identity for fear of his job. blog. http://aphotoeditor.com/

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Friday, October 12, 2007
VII War Videos

PBS: THE WAR IN IRAQ THROUGH A PHOTOGRAPHERS EYES is a three part film about VII photographers covering the war in Iraq. See it HERE

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Redressing the Balance

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

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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.

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Thursday, September 6, 2007
Sebastian Salgado Interview/Slideshow

There is an interesting Sebastian Selgado interview in The Times with an accompanying slideshow.

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Monday, September 3, 2007
Paulo Pellegrin: Double Blind Lebanon 2006

Have a look at the slideshow on YouTube of Paulo Pellegrin's images from the Lebanon conflict from last summer.

The slideshow promotes his new book "Double Blind".

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Saturday, September 1, 2007
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.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Jeff Mermelstein video

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

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Saturday, August 4, 2007
Iraq Multi-Media Slideshow

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.

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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!

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Inside AP

Interesting multi-media slideshow about the inner workings of AP here.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007
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.

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Friday, July 27, 2007
Simon Norfolk/HOST Podcast

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.

Or here to subscribe in iTunes.

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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Reuters: Pictures of the Month

See the latest Pictures Of The Month slideshow from Reuters for June.

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Reuters: Picture of the Month

See the latest Pictures Of The Month slideshow from Reuters for June.

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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.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
MediaStorm: Black Market Multi Media Essay

The excellent MediaStorm has produced a mixed media essay of Patrick Brown's long-term documentary project about the illegal wildlife trade.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Bendiksen Win's National Magazine Award

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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