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

Chinese Acrobat Exhibition Opens


Photography MA student Sara Gouveia's final project on Chinese Acrobats opens as an exhibition at the Quinzena da Juventude 29 Feb - 16 mar

Getty Sells for $2.4 Billion

Getty Images, the world’s biggest pictures and video distributor, agreed Monday to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion including debt. ...more

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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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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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Eddie Adams Workshop

Applications are now invited for the next Eddie Adams Workshop. "The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top professionals in photojournalism, along with 100 carefully selected students. The Workshop's purpose is to create a forum in which an exchange of ideas, techniques, and philosophies can be shared between both established members and newcomers of the profession of picture journalism. The Workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios." ...more

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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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Friday, February 22, 2008

Chinese Photoshopped Award Winners


A number of new cases of Chinese photographers photoshopping images that won awards ...more

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Alamy go over the 10 million image mark

Photo stock agency, Alamy has now reached 10 million images and is now making 30 million pounds a year, but does the increase in pictures mean a smaller share of profits to the photographers ...more

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Guardian special report wins Journalism.co.uk multimedia storytelling competition

New multimedia competition is won by Dan Chung and Ami Vitale with a story from Mali ...more

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New full frame Leica rangefinder rumours

Leica have hinted that there maybe a full frame version of the M8 on the way ...more

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Gordon Parks Center Awards

The Gordon Park Center has called for entries to their annual photography contest. ...more

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