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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed


This show marks the launch of this annual exhibition, presenting the most dynamic new work by visual arts graduates from BA and MA courses across the UK including Photo MA student Boris Austin.

The show runs at the Photographer's Gallery, London, June 21 to July 6...more and link to Boris' project

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Becky Mathews in the Ukraine


Becky Mathews, one of this years Bolton based Photo MA students is currently working in the Ukraine for the International Aid trust

IAT was initially set up in 1991 by Reverend Bernard Cocker as a response to the Chernobyl disaster. IAT is unlike other charities in as much as its aid is not given solely in money but by providing goods donated and shipped directly from the UK. As such they have the largest charity warehouse in Europe, and unlike other charities they accept any donation believing that everything can be recycled.
website www.beckymatthews.co.uk

Image of the Government Care Home in Didovshchuna.

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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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OPEN EYE GALLERY, Tuesday 2 July, 7.30pm

Liz Lock & Photo MA Graduate Mishka Henner discuss Raw Material, their latest body of work and publication which continues their photographic study of northern English
towns.

Lock & Henner spent six months exploring the landscape and character of
North Staffordshire, a place known worldwide for its fine porcelain and
ceramics industry. Today, much of this industry has moved overseas, leaving
local towns struggling to redefine themselves amidst a derelict landscape.

Using portraiture and landscape studies, Lock & Henner present images that
avoid nostalgia, alluding instead to the uncertainty, role-play and fantasy
involved in the post-industrial search for identity and meaning.

Signed copies of the book will be available at this event.

A journal kept by Lock & Henner during the course of the project can be
found at http://placespaceidentity.blogspot.com

Commissioned by Arts Council England West Midlands.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008
The Midland Hotel - A New Book


Photo MA 2006 graduate Simon Webb has just launched a new book published and distributed by Dewi Lewis - The Midland Hotel. The book documents the refurbishment of the famous art deco hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire ...more

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Friday, June 13, 2008
Raw Material Exhibition


2006 Photo MA graduate Mishka Henner opens a new exhibition at the Air Space gallery in Stoke on Trent from the 16 - 21 June. The work was commissioned by Arts Council England West Midlands and is an exploration of North Staffordshire, a territory rich in cultural and
artistic heritage seeking to forge a new identity in a post-industrial era.

On entering the 21st century, much emphasis is placed on the need for
northern towns and cities to develop aspirational identities to attract
outside investors and succeed in the global marketplace. Having worked in
the north of England for the past four years, we came to North Staffordshire
between October 2007 and April 2008 and found a landscape scarred by
economic forces that have left deep psychological and physical wounds.
Throughout our series, motifs associated with vulnerability and a coming of
age appear alongside motifs of role-play and faith.

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Bowcock Exhibition at the Greenroom


Photo MA graduate 2006 graduate Simon Bowcock is holding an exhibition at the Green Room, 54-56 Whitworth St West Manchester M1 5WW.

Sound Effects is an unprecedented series of photographs portraying the experience of listening to live music.

Typically made in near darkness, the pictures capture their subjects totally immersed in the music, oblivious to the camera’s presence. Shot in every kind of venue from Strangeways to southern Spain, these rough, unmanipulated and colourful images evoke a range of moods and feelings....more

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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Boris Exhibits in Dalian

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Adam Dean Discusses Covering the Earthquake


Adam Dean talks to Digital Journalist magazine about his experiences covering the earthquake. ...more

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Andy Boag in the Artic


Bolton based PhotoMA student Andy Boag returns from working in the Arctic with the BBC.
Andy was commissioned to work on a documentary about the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. A sequence of his images of the Northern lights will be included in the film which will be screened next December.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Neighborhoods and Societies on Show

Neighborhoods and Societies, a photographic
exhibition by MA photo graduate Peter Walker will
be on show in Gallery Oldham from 21 June to 26 July
2008. Peter who studied in Bolton will graduate this
June.

The exhibition forms part of an ongoing project by the
artist that aims to celebrate the diversity of
Oldham’s neighbourhoods and workplaces.

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Monday, June 2, 2008
The National Portrait Gallery London buys MA photography student's work

The National Portrait Gallery London buys MA
photography student's work for the national
collection.

A selection of portraits of iconic Manchester
personalities by Bolton based MA student Paul
Wolfgang Webster have recently been acquired by the
NPG.

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
"Fresh Face and Wild Eyed" Boris


Dalian MA Photography graduate Boris Austin has been selected for the Fresh faced and wild eyed competition for his final project work from China, a selection of which which will now exhibit at the Photographer's Gallery in London. He will also publish an edit of the project in Dutch Magazine Foam in their up and coming Talent issue.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
1.7 Million Multimedia Visitors

A current student on the MA Photography photography programme in Dalian who also works as a picture editor in Shanghai used his skills gained on the course to produce five multimedia pieces from his papers photographers covering the earthquake. According to Sina press who published them the new media pieces had received more than 1.7 million unique users since they were posted.

Below are three examples -

http://news.sina.com.cn/photo/2008-05-17/326/701.html
http://news.sina.com.cn/photo/2008-05-18/326/710.html
http://news.sina.com.cn/pc/2008-05-18/326/716.html

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Monday, May 26, 2008
Adam Dean in Burma & China


In a mad dash between two major disasters ex MA student Adam Dean travelled between Burma and China to cover both the cyclone and the earthquake. His images appeared in The Daily Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal and the front page of the New York Times. See his images from Burma here and a slide show from China here.

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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Student Publishes in Stern


Current Dalian MA student Nick Kosak flew to the earthquake area with 5 others from the course soon after news broke. His coverage of the disaster has led to a new agreement with Sipa Press and his first picture publication in Stern. ...more

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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Students cover earthquake


Six current MA students and two graduates are now in the earthquake areas of Sichuan covering news for various publications, agencies and NGO's.
Meanwhile graduate Adam Dean has been covering the typhoon aftermath in Burma.

picture Rui Pestana, Beichuan - Sichuan

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Monday, April 21, 2008
New Video on China's Youth

Dalian MA Cohort student Patrick Carr has released a new short documentary film on youth culture in China see it ...HERE

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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Exhibitions for Dave Burgess


MA Photography student Dave Burgess has a series of three exhibitions coming up of his work in China. a) Victor J's Cafe Bar, York: 30th Feb to 30th March, b) Doncaster Art Gallery: 5th April to 10th May, C) Design & Innovation Centre, Leeds: 30th June to 18th July.

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NPPA Awards

Adam Dean misses out again to John Moore in the next round of awards but Andrew Biraj, graduate from the Bolton BA Programme and Pathshala wins a first prize...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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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Bolton Comes Top for International Student Satisfaction

The University of Bolton has participated this year in a large survey to bench mark
international student satisfaction (studying at Bolton) against 84 other
Universities in the Northern Hemisphere (including Yale, Penn State,
Maastrict, TUDelft and a broad range of UK Universities). The survey
looked at 4 broad areas: Learning, Living, Student Support and Arrival.

Bolton came 17th overall - but more importantly, joint top in student satisfaction with their learning experience. We were also top in the specific item with regard to student services.

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Adam Dean discusses the Bhutto Assassination

Ex MA Photography student Adam Dean describes his experiences of covering the Bhutto assassination. ...more

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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'.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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.

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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 ...more

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Monday, January 21, 2008
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.

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Saturday, January 12, 2008
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".

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Thursday, January 10, 2008
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.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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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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.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
MA Students finish another year


The 2007 Dalian cohort of MA Photography (international photojournalism, documentary and travel photography) celebrate the end of their course. Portfolios from their final work will be online soon.

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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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Friday, November 16, 2007
Open Cities Award

Dalian MA Photography graduate Markel Redondo has been awarded a £3,000 commission as part of the British Council Open Cities project. On the next few months he will be working on a project on immigration in his home region of Spain.

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Friday, October 26, 2007
MA Student Blogs her way through the Final Project

German student Julia Horbaschk has set up a blog to document her process in photographing UK migrant workers for her MA final project....more

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Sunday, October 7, 2007
Students Show exhibition online

The four MA students (Dalian Cohort) who exhibited in Dalian last month have put together a multimedia version of their exhibition online. Kerrilee Barratt, Gavin Fernandes, David Burgess and Christine Chin (USA Research student) all talk about their work online at http://www.chrisamico.com/multimedia/ilovedalian/

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Adam Dean Shows at Visa Pour L'Image

2006 cohort student Adam Dean had a selection of his images of North Korea shown at Visa Pour L'Image projection this year. The pictures were part of a slide show from three Reuters photographers.

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Student Exhibition Opening

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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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Saturday, August 4, 2007
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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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
MA Student Reacts to Bomb Threat

While waiting at Heathrow airport for a flight back to China to attend his graduation ceremony, MA student Adam Dean was evacuated to the car park, along with thousands of other passengers after a bomb scare following the terror attacks in London in July. Not wanting to miss the opportunity he shot pictures of the event, found an internet connection and started to call publications around the world. His images featured the next day in numerous publications including the front page of the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and
The Guardian.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007
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 Tourists

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Friday, July 20, 2007
China, Photography and Privacy

The issue of privacy and other legal matters in regard to photography in China were discussed at a one day event in Dalian, China. The conference was the second of in two weeks organised by the MA Photography course designed to raise important issues in Chinese photography.

Visiting speaker and renowned British privacy Lawyer Rupert Grey was joined by local lawyers to discuss the main issues affecting photographers. The previous week Editor/Academic Colin Jacobson, and photographers Chris Coekin and Ian Beesley had met in Dalian to discuss the state of British Photojournalism. There were also workshops and seminars led by Barbara Herrmann (Stern Magazine), Tom Peters (Film maker) and Pieter van de Houwen (photographer).

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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Photo MA Students Invited on 3 Gorges Trip

Three 2006 cohort students and 2 current students from the China cohort were selected for an all expenses paid two week photography trip down the three gorges in central China. The trip, organised by China Foto Press on behalf of the government, selects professional photographers from around the world to come to China and shoot pictures to be published in a book. Once again Kerrillee Barratt made the front page of the local press.

See Markel's photos here.

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Friday, June 8, 2007
Photo MA Student Wins Grant

Simon Webb's final book project on Dark Tourism is to be exhibited at the University of Hertfordshire UH Galleries. Simon will receive a £2,000 grant to help him prepare the exhibition that was shot partly while working in Asia based in Dalian and partly while based in Bolton. Simon is now working on coordinating a national tour of the work.

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Saturday, May 12, 2007
MA Student on Pavillion Shortlist

UK cohort student Simon Bowcock has been short listed for the Pavilion Commissions Programme 2007. Through its Commissions Programme, Pavilion collaborates with artists to create and exhibit new work. ....More details here.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Vicki Goldberg Lectures In Dalian

Acclaimed photography academic Vicki Goldberg came to the University in Dalian in May to give a lecture based on her book The Power of Photography and run a seminar with the Photo MA students. Goldberg has written numerous influential books on photography and was a lead consultant in the BBC six part series The Decisive Moment.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
China TV Film Ex Photo MA Student

China 2006 cohort student Zhao Xin is to be the subject of a CCTV 10 documentary for her own documentary photography work on the human body. Filming will start in June and the programme aired nationally later in the year.

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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Photo MA Student wins £24,000 Grant

Bolton cohort graduate Simon Webb has won a £24,000 grant to work on a photographic documentary project of the reconstruction of Morecambe's famous art deco hotel The Midland. The funding comes mainly from ACE with a top up from the local council. Simon is now seeking further private investment into the one year project.

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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Fred Chan Wins Commision

Bolton cohort student Fred Chan has won a £5,000 photography commission to work on a project called World of Dance in celebration of the cultural diversity of Liverpool through an exhibition of images from 6 dance communities - Indian, African. Chinese, Irish, Salsa and 3rd Age (older people). The images will be shot using community based dance groups and will result in an exhibition in Feb 2008 which will open with dance performances from some of the groups involved.

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Saturday, April 14, 2007
MA Course Features in BJP

The MA Photography course had a triple exposure in the 21st March, 9th and 16th May editions of the British Journal of Photography. The first came with an interview with China Cohort course leader D J Clark in an article about Chinese photography. UK cohort student Simon Webb featured in the Project Assistance Award back pages of the magazine on the 9th May and a feature on the China Cohort appeared in the 16th May edition. ...Read the Article here.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
2006 Students Move on to New Accomplishments

Guo Yang: will publish her beach culture project in Magenta Magazine.

Simon Bowcock: will have his final book "sound effects" presented at the
Frankfurt and London book fairs by Pieter Van Der Houwen's agent.

Liu Tao & Adam Dean: hope to feature their North Korea pictures in Daylight Magazine
including the main cover picture.

Mishka Henner: with partner Liz Lock won the much sought after Oldham
commission and will be featured at the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland later this year

Adam Dean: now works as a regular stringer for Reuters in China and
recently published one of his second term project pictures in Rolling Stone
Magazine. He is currently working on a project for Save the
Children in Mongolia.

Markel Redondo: has had his final project on Chinese Tourists selected by Photo Espana 2007 and will exhibit in Madrid this summer. He is now freelancing in China with WPN and has just started work on his first Stern Magazine commission.

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Mishka Wins PDN Prize

Mishka Henner has won a Photo District News (USA magazine similar to the BJP) student award for his work in China last year. See a multimeida version of the project.

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Saturday, December 9, 2006
Photography & The Cultural Revolution

The University of Bolton in association with Dalian Image Art College, hosted a two day conference in Dalian, to discuss Photography and the Cultural Revolution. This is the first of a series of planned annual conferences connected to UoB’s MA Photography that runs both in Bolton and in Dalian, and the research of photography lecturer DJ Clark. Highlights of the conference included lectures by photographers Li Zhensheng and Jiang Shao Wu as well as a critical debate led by New York curator Robert Pledge from Contact Press Images.

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Friday, December 8, 2006
Robert Pledge Reviews Student Books

Students completing the MA Photography in Dalian were given portfolio sessions by Contact Press Director Robert Pledge and renowned Chinese photographer Li Zhensheng. Students work in their final term on produce a book based on their final project.

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Sunday, October 15, 2006
MA Students Cover N Korea Crisis

It's not often you get a world news story breaking on your doorstep but the North Korea nuclear weapon test happened just a couple of hundred miles from Dalian. The test was announced soon after the event at 10.28 AM. Getting pictures from North Korea is almost impossible, except from the Chinese border, a two and a half hour drive from the University. Their work was published around the world.

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Saturday, October 7, 2006
MA Students Place Assignment Pictures

Spanish student Markel Redondo won picture of the week and top story placement with his picture agency On Asia for his second term project on Chinese tourists. Meanwhile UK student Adam Dean placed one his images from his Modern Tibet project with the Wall Street Journal Weekend edition (October 1st) and Rolling Stone Magazine (US, Brazil and Japan issues).

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Monday, September 25, 2006
Pingyao Festival Success

Chinese MA students made the trip to the Pingyao International Photography Festival in mid September where they were given the unique opportunity of projecting their work in one of the main evening slide shows. They also held a private show in one of the courtyards for future students and the press (read the China daily report). Students also had the opportunity to show their folios to Contact Press photographers and China Reuters staff who set up their photo desk at the festival for the week.

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