China Smokestack

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

Colin Mcpherson Masterclass

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

Stand Up For Photojournalism

NUJ Exhibition celebrating 100 years of photography goes online....more

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

Alexandra Boulat: A Tribute

Time magazine have put together a tribute to Alexandra Boulat who died last month. ....more

Better Tomorrows for Rwanda

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik's work in Rwanda is helping to educate genocide's youngest victims, and making sure we never forget. ...more

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

MA Students win Hauyu Photography Competition

MA students (2006 Dalian cohort) Kerrillee Barratt and Adam Dean and Sara Gouveia (2007 Dalian cohort) have won prizes in the Hauyu cup photographer competition based on the theme of Chongqing in Foreign Eyes, selected works of which are currently on show in Beijing...link.

Getting Dirty with Reuters

Reuters photographer talks about working with the press pack covering the McCartney and Mills case ...link

Sony Offer New Grants

Photographers are invited to enter the inaugural World Photography Awards, a competition which will award a $25,000 top prize to the best professional. More HERE

Royal Photographic Society offers new granta

Young photographers are set to benefit from a number of new bursary schemes being organised by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS)... more HERE

MaryAnne Golon Interview

Director of photography at one of the world's most famous news-led magazines, MaryAnne Golon talks to John McDermott about working at Time magazine and dealing with such a responsibility in these extraordinary times ...link

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/

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

Akash wins Gordan Park's prize

G.M.B.Akash a student from Bangladesh photography school Pathshala's first batch wins first prize for his photo titled "Passengers without Ticket" in the prestigious Gordon Parks Photography Competition 2007. More work by Akash can be seen at www.majorityworld.com and www.gmb-akash.com.

Simon Norfolk Interview

Simon Norfolk talks in detail about his work on War. More HERE

Video Advice from Perpignan

Various professionals give advice on making it in the photojournalism business. More Here

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

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

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/

Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography

Getty are offering grants to photographers working on projects. Deadline is the 15th November,

More HERE

14th Noorderlicht International Photofestival

ACT OF FAITH
On show till 28 October, Der Aa-kerk, Groningen, the Netherlands


Act of Faith: for one, heaven; for another hell. But one thing is certain: the Noorderlicht event on religion is being talked about, both regarding its design and its content. More than ever before, this year Noorderlicht has emphatically chosen for experimentation. Act of Faith puts the image center stage. Call it poetic, call it irritating, call it impressionistic, call it visual swill, call it a truly Babylonian confusion of voices: it is certainly a tour through photography.

WITH: In our own Noorderlicht Photogallery Children of Abraham, the globe-spanning report on the role of religion in society, by the Magnum photographer Abbas. In the Center for Visual Arts: Material World, about religion without God.
Read more...http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/index.html


Noorderlicht organizes various activities through October:
>>http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/activities.html

Book launch and public interview Lana Slezic
Saturday 6 October, 4 PM, Der Aa-kerk
Emile Fallaux, editor in chief of Vrij Nederland, speaks with Lana Slezic and Farzana Wahidy in a public interview. (English)
For two years (2004-2006) Lana Slezic documented the lives of women in Afghanistan after the expulsion of the Taliban. From her travels through the country and conversations that she had with women as she moved around, it became clear that Afghanistan was still a ruthless tribal state in which, certainly outside Kabul, women and girls were the foremost victims. Slezic's series Forsaken tells the story that they themselves cannot tell. Lana Slezic's translator and good friend in Afghanistan, Farzana Wahidy who has left Afghanistan recently, will be present at the interview as well.

Photojournalist Lana Slezic (b. 1973, Canada) has published in newspapers and periodicals such as The Sunday Times, Paris Match and The New York Times. Her first photo book Forsaken is published by Mets & Schilt.

Photobook Market
Saturday 6 October, 11 AM - 17 PM, Der Aa-kerk
A photobook market with dealers specializing in antiquarian and new books, including Markus Schaden, from Cologne. Unusual and rare books, for the layman and the connoisseur. The auction house Wish4books and auctioneer Geert Postma will hold a preview of original photographs and unusual photo books which will be coming up for auction later this year.

Lecture Michael Shaowanasai
Sunday 14 October, 16.00, Der Aa-kerk
Shaowanasai is a pioneer in the alternative Thai art circuit. Act of Faith
shows two photos from his series 'Portraits of a Man in Habits' on
homosexuality in Buddhism. In 2006 he participated in the Noorderlicht
exhibition Another Asia.

Film Program
> 4 films from Dutch director Leonard Retel Helmrich
16, 18, 23 & 25 October with the prizewinning 'De Stand van de Maan' and ‘Promised Paradise’

> ‘Fur – an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus’
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September 2 PM

> ‘Jesus Camp’
Thursday 25 thru Wednesday 31 October

and films by Anton Corbijn, Steven Shainberg and Jennifer Baichwal.

For more information and addresses see: http://noorderlicht.com/eng/fest07/index.html

Recently published:
Catalogue Act of Faith
Published in twelve different covers
Hardcover, fullcolor and duotone
Size 15x23cm, 368 pages
Dutch/English
ISBN 978-90-76703-32-9
>>http://noorderlicht.com/eng/shop/actfaith/index.html

Embracing the spirit of the Avant Garde

From 1900 - 1937 the European Avant Garde embraced the spirit of revolt, challenge and change brought about by industrialisation and the decline of traditional hierarchies, particularly after the 1914-18 war. It represents a pushing back of the boundaries of what is acceptable as the cultural norm in society.

The brief
We challenge you to design a piece of work which embraces the spirit of the avant garde, exploring whether its philosophy is relevant to you and the world today.

The prize
The winning entry will be displayed at the British Library flagship building in London and showcased on our website.

The judges
Graphic designer Peter Saville; typography expert Professor Phil Baines, Central Saint Martins; Madeleine Holt, culture correspondent, BBC Newsnight; leading authority on innovation and creativity, Charles Leadbeater; and Caryl Harris, Creativeinterpartners.

The deadline
Friday 9 November 2007

Find out more about how you can enter at www.bl.uk/breakingtherules

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.

Student Exhibition Opening