Telegraph Claims UK the hardest Place to Shoot in Public

"Has our increasingly paranoid society declared war on the humble 'weekend snapper'?

An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? Sam Delaney reports. Illustration by Ulla Puggaar."...more

Nikon and the Olympics

In a un predicted turn around Nikon competed well with Canon in the photographer's pens at the Olympics this summer as this picture demonstrates. Meanwhile Kari Kuukka took the time to shoot a 360 degree panorama to show the rest of us what it was like to be on the 100m finish line....more (it takes time to download). Spot Mr Chung!

Nikon Launch DSLR that shoots HDV

Nikon are the first to release a DSLR that aslo shoots high def video - the D90 ...more

New York Times review ...more

Boris Talks to China

Photo MA graduate Boris Austin talks on China Radio International about his time on the MA in Dalian and his latest portrait project around the Olympics. He also tells us why he wears such strange shoes....more

PHOTO COMPETITION ON HARM, INJUSTICE AND CRIME LAUNCHING SOON!!!

Violent events caused by businesses and the state; hidden violence against
women, children and the elderly; the way in which poverty hurts injures, hurts
and kills; the impact of environmental pollution – all of these rarely attract the
same level of political and public concern as ‘conventional’ crime.

In September 2008 a national photography competition will be launched by the
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London as part of
our ‘What is crime?’ project. The competition will invite images which confront
and challenge the different contexts in which the powerful inflict violence and
harm upon the powerless and challenge popular ideas about what crime is, who
commits it and who gets harmed....more

42 Reasons why Newspapers are Dead

Ex LA Times journalist blogs about the future of newspapers ...more

Shanghai Charity Print Sale

Photography MA Graduate Sharron Lovell is helping organise a print sale in Shanghai of images from her participatory project. A photographic exhibition and print sale will be opening at Boona cafe 3 September 3rd 2008 at 6pm. There will be beautiful pictures at affordable prices for a great cause. Please come support our event!

凉山儿童摄影展及作品慈善义卖活动将于2008年9月3日Boona 3 咖啡馆举行。请支持我们！

The Malafi Photo Initiative is a small grassroots project working with 14 orphaned children in rural Sichuan Province. The project aims to provide some basic financial assistance for the children for a three-year period, and to enrich the participating children with a fun, creative experience. The project supplied cameras to 14 children who then collectively chose and worked to the visual theme My Village Life. Basic photography workshops provided children with the skills and inspiration to document their own lives through their own eyes. The workshops also acted as a platform for self expression and communication. Exhibition and print sales in Shanghai will be used to raise funds and a local exhibit in Liangshan is planned to display the work and inspire local community awareness and understanding.

Pricing Multimedia Stories

Interesting string on lightstalkers about pricing MM stories...more

2nd World Images Biennale At the initiative of the musée du quai Branly From September 22nd to November 22nd, 2009

Established in 2007, exclusively dedicated to non-Western photography, Photoquai is a biennial event held in Paris in odd years. The second edition incorporates the fundamental mission of Photoquai: to develop relationships with artists whose work is unprecedented in Europe, and to encourage cross-eyed lookings on the world.

The second edition will be held from September 22nd to November 22nd 2009 on the banks of the river Seine along the musée du quai Branly and into a large number of renowned Parisian institutions, partners of the event. The 2009 edition will particularly care to ensure continuity between outdoor exhibitions and exhibitions inside partner institutions. As the organizer of the event, the musée du quai Branly will programm indoor exhibitions, and dedicate a part of its garden to photography.

Caroline exhibits work in Siberia

Caroline Edge recently travelled to Novosibirsk Siberia to photograph the Solar eclipse and attend the opening of her exhibition at the No Soap gallery. She gave a talk on photography and spiritual experience through a translator and was interviewed for the local newspaper, and for national radio (Radio Mayak). More information on blog and website.

Framing Time and Place

Julia to Exhibit in Brighton

Photo MA graduate Julia Horbaschk will exhibit her final MA work at the Brighton Photo Fringe this year.









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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.

Love Him or Loathe Him

From current Photo MA student Dave Wyatt -

Interview with Mr Parr, who looking at his recent work seems to be
doing his best work since the 80s at the mo and doing interesting
things in magazines. Call it a brief respite from Multimedia... :) A
lot of it is fairly obvious (like shooting your own ideas then
pitching them, being proactive etc) but I like his idea of dressing
documentary up as entertainment to widen it's readership. Love him or
hate him he remains one of the most successful documentary
photographers of all time. ..more

Bowcock in the Press

Photo MA graduate Simon Bowcock continues to enjoy success from his final project. Below are some links to press reviews,

The Guardian newspaper ran a 2 page feature on 9th August.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/aug/08/people.lost.in.music
British Journal of Photography 6th August
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=808384
Metro newspaper review:
http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=239813&in_page_id=241&in_a_source
Ag International Journal of Photographic Art and Practice no 52
BBC Radio Interview 5th August

Two Graduates Exhibit Final Work

NEW PERSPECTIVES: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM CHINA AND MONGOLIA By Grace Gelder & Laura Mccallum

Wed 13 - Thurs 28 Aug - Balcony Gallery - Lighthouse

Laura’s work is a personal account of her experiences with internet dating. After answering personal ads in Beijing men’s lonely heart sites, she recorded her preparation, journeys and meetings, which are exhibited along with extracts from her shooting diary. Laura started the project to research the effects of China’s imbalance in the ratio of men to women, which is causing many men to use the internet to broaden their search to find their perfect match.

Through her portrait series of professional Mongolian women, Grace seeks to challenge the perception of Mongolia as an under-developed country dominated by a rural nomadic population. Over half of the 2.9 million inhabitants now live in an urban environment, mostly in the capital Ulanbaataar. Statistics from a UN report last year show that out of 115 Countries surveyed, Mongolia came top for women’s participation in the professional and technical workforce. This project shows a variety of roles that women play in Mongolian society by photographing them in their working environment. ...more

Olympic Journey

Staff and students from the photo MA are working on a unique insight into life in China during the Olympic Games for the newspaper USA Today. Every day during the Olympics, USA Today will stream a short video on its website from three teams travelling throughout China. The project is the idea and work of current student Tom Dooley.

After the videos have been screened on the USA Today website they are then posted to the project site. Each team will also contribute to a project blog and image gallery as they travel. A Chinese version is also being broadcast on the Chinese version of the Financial Times ...more

Insight Guides / Independent on Sunday Travel Photography Competition 2008

We are looking to reward photographers who not only provide top-quality, outstanding images but who also manage to capture the essence of a destination. We are looking for a great photograph that comes under the theme of "water". The competition is open to any UK-based photographer, professional or amateur.

The first prize is a unique commission, worth £3,000, to photograph a travel destination for a future Insight Guide. Second and third prizes will be £1,000 and £500 worth of photographic equipment....more

Graduate Source

To accompany our Graduate Photography Online project for 2008, Source has asked a number of prominent photography curators to choose their favourites from all of the work submitted to the graduate competition....more