Every year the UoB MA Photography programme in Dalian, in collaboration with Dalian Image Art College invites experts from around the world to discuss a key issue relating to photojournalism, with particular reference to China. Below are some of the recent debates.
The Future Of Photojournalism? (The Multimedia Challenge) July 2nd 2008
Chair: Professor David Campbell (Durham University)
Panelists: Dan Chung (The Guardian), Dirck Halstead (The Digital Journalist), Brian Storm (Media Storm)
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What is the place of the single image in Contemporary Journalism?
December 12th 2007
Chair: D J Clark
Panelists: Robert Pledge (Contact Press Images), Ulla Marquardt (Professor of Moving Images at the University of Applied Sciences, in Darmstadt, Germany), Xu Gang (Photo Editor at the Liaoning Daily)
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What are the Implications of new Privacy Laws in the West to Photography in China?
July 17th 2007
Chair: D J Clark
Panelists: Rupert Grey (Privacy Lawyer and Partner at Swan Turton in London), Wang Gang (Professor in Law at Dalian Technical University), Zhu Minghao (New Century Law Firm).
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.
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Photography & The Cultural Revolution
December 9th 2006
Chair: Robert Pledge (Contact Press Images)
Panelists: Li Zhensheng, Jiang Shao Wu (both news photographers in the 1960's/70's in China)
The University of Bolton in association with Dalian College of Image Art, 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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