MA Photography Blog (international photojournalism, documentary and travel photography

Photo MA Blog
International Photojournalism, documentary and travel photography

Friday, August 22, 2008

Death of A Postcard Takes Off

Photo MA graduates Ade and Zoe are back in India promoting the film Death of a Postcard they made as part of their final work on the course. Sales of a DVD and cinema screenings are growing.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Intimate China

As world eyes fall on China ahead of the upcoming Olympic games in 2008, how do you see China portrayed in the media? What types of stories do you hear? What do you know and what would you like to know?

A documentary film by Photo MA graduate Boris Austin about the making of a 30 Page "China Special" for Dutch Magazine Onze Wereld. The project, curated by Photo MA visiting lecturer Pieter vander Houwen and Boris, uses photo essays created by MA students and graduates to give a new perspective of China to a western audience.

See the film on the Onze Wereld website (this has bugs so maybe try the Vimeo link)...here
See the film on Vimeo ...here
See the slide show ...here
Download the magazine PDF ...here

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Anne Darling Publishes Final Project

Photo MA graduate Anne Darling has had her final book project on Female Imams in North West China turned into a multimedia project and published in Saudi Aramco World Magazine. China’s Hui Muslim women inhabit religious communities, homes and social spheres shaped not only by Islam but also by China’s Confucian culture and its Communist secular state. The photographs indicate how they have come up with unique strategies to help themselves flourish in these circumstances. ...more

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Shenyang Festival Disaster

Photo MA students exhibited and visited the first Shenyang international photojournalism festival held in North East China. It is not clear what happened during the festival but unofficially it seemed to have been canceled on the day of its opening. There were few visitors, lights were left off in the exhibition halls and images appeared mixed up in the wrong exhibitions. Above left is a picture of the student exhibition, above right are three images rescued by students Rui Pestana and Nick Kozak of the earthquake which appeared in the wrong exhibition with the wrong captions.

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

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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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

Student Projects

Dalian cohort students have finished second term projects below is a selection,

Boris Austin - Take me to Your Favorite Place

Sharron Lovell - HIV/AIDS in China
you will need user name: sharron and password: lovell88 for this

Grace Gelder - Big Skies

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Monday, August 27, 2007

Chinese Tourism Slideshow

Photo MA graduate Markel Redondo has recently published his final semester project on Chinese Tourism as an online slideshow. Some of these images were also published in the British Journal of Photography.

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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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The Photo MA blog is for anybody with an interest in photography; specifically photojournalism, documentary and travel photography.

It is run and maintained by the University of Bolton Photography MA, a one year course which runs concurrently at learning centers at The University of Bolton, UK and Dalian College of Image Art, China.

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