Chobi Mela Festival Opens in Dhaka

The 5th Chobi Mela festival in Dhaka starts today with live webcasts of lectures and debates. Photo MA teachers, D J Clark and Wang Xi are there to give workshops, talks and exhibit work from the course. A report is here the main website is at http://www.chobimela.org/

Source Magazine Seeking Submissions

Source is interested in seeing new previously unpublished projects for publication and has an open and ongoing submissions policy. We publish a variety of work but we would encourage you to see what kind of material we publish by looking at the material available on our web site. ...more

The Gordon Parks International Photo Contest

An integral part of the Gordon Parks Celebration for Culture and Diversity will be the Gordon Parks International Photo Competition which has been conducted by Fort Scott Community College since 1990. More than 3,100 individuals from around the world have participated in this annual program that, inspired by the photography of Gordon Parks, reflects important themes in life such as social injustice, the suffering of others, and family values.

Now accepting applications ...more

Is There Life After Newspapers

Thousands upon thousands of newspaper journalists have lost their jobs in recent years in endless rounds of layoffs and buyouts. What happens in the next act? ...more


Paper cuts website monitors the job cuts in the newspaper industry in the USA ...more

Newspaper as television

[This is a cross posting with David Campbell's personal web site and blog, now available at www.david-campbell.org, with content and postings on photography, multimedia and politics.]

The media landscape is changing radically. When The Guardian (rightly) wins a Broadcast News award for its July 2008 video on Zimbabwe’s rigged election – which was posted on the newspapers web site before being shown on BBC television – then we have proof that the barriers between print, on-line and television are being blurred by multimedia.

This convergence is not without its problems. The mainstream media is using ‘clickstream’ data on what drives digital consumers to their site in a way that could see more of the same superficial journalism in more outlets.

According to Andrew Currah of Oxford University; “A paradox of the 24/7 media environment is that - owing to the integration of newsrooms, and the duplication of stories across print, broadcast and online - the news agenda has become more homogeneous, despite there being more channels through which to access it.”

The work of The Guardian, and independent producers like MediaStorm, shows that creative and challenging stories can be produced and distributed. It’s up to the mainstream digital media to use the technological opportunities to do something similar.

[See Andrew Currah’s full report on the future of news publishing in the UK in the digital age, What’s Happenning to Our News, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, January 2009].

All links available at http://www.david-campbell.org/2009/01/26/newspaper-as-television/

Another Time Picture

Photo MA graduate Adam Dean once again features in Time Magazine's picture of the day...more

Innovative Coverage of Obama's Inauguration

Washington post uses a mosaic of readers pictures ...more

David Bergman makes a 1,474-Megapixel Photo you can zoom in on the crowd to see individual faces. ...more

And microsoft uses its Photosynth software to create some amazing panoramas ...more

Getty and Flickr

"Getty Images has started recruiting Flickr users as it prepares for the launch of its new collection of images sourced from the social networking website." There appears to be no way of asking for Getty to look at your work for potential representation, you just post to Flickr and hope they see you. ...more

However the deal is not as sweet as it looks as although the deal suggests a standard deal to all photographers (30% of the price), Getty looks to be looking for ways to boost its microstock, which may mean just 20p an image sold (by my calculation). There are also a number of copy right issues ...more

Photography Teaching Post at Bolton

Senior Lecturer in Photography (Commercial/Fashion/Journalism)
School of Arts, Media & Education
Ref: ADA003AC

Applications are invited from individuals who possess a thorough knowledge and experience of contemporary, industry-standard processes and professional practice and are familiar with current debates/developments in the field in order to contribute subject expertise to the delivery of BA (Hons) Photography.

The appointee will be expected to possess a strong understanding of theoretical concepts and histories relevant to photography and be able to contribute to theory modules at undergraduate level.

A first degree in a relevant subject, along with a teaching qualification and postgraduate qualification in a relevant area are desirable requirements of the post.

For further information and or an informal discussion about this lecturing opportunity, please contact Nicholas Hellewell (Programme Leader) - Tel 01204 903363 NMH1@bolton.ac.uk

Information about the programme is available at: http://bit.ly/16dws

Salary in the range of £33,045 - £42,444 per annum.

Closing date for applications is Friday 13 February 2009

SDXC expands SD into Terabyte territory

"The SD Association has announced the new SDXC format offering greater capacities and speeds. The 'Extended Capacity' format increases maximum capacity to 2TB (2000GB), from the current 32GB of SDHC. Speeds will reach 104 MB/s by the end of 2009 with a target of 300 MB/s in the future. Although it is primarily aimed at the camcorder market, we wouldn't be surprised to see it become popular for photography too."

Newpapers may seek charity funding

"Could newspapers and local broadcasters begin seeking philanthropic support from the civic foundations and private donors that are starting to bankroll news non-profits? It appears entirely likely. With for-profit media watching their news-gathering resources dwindle, some editors say they're open to the idea of seeking help from donors." ...more

Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition

The Environmental Photographer of the Year shares images of environmental and social issues with international audiences, enhancing our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change.

The competition encourages images of places and people that are benefitting from a changing climate, or vulnerable ecosystems and communities that are struggling with the effects. Images may examine the relationship between economic development, environmental degradation and social inequity, celebrate innovations helping us achieve environmental improvements, examine lifestyles, cultural traditions, spiritual activities and racial prejudices or celebrate the incredible variety and beauty that exists within our natural environment. They serve to remind us what we need to protect.

All winning and highly commended entries are displayed at the international Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition, creating a legacy of informed individuals working to protect our environment. ...more

More Obama Coverage

Photo MA Graduate Adam Dean's images from Beijing feature in Time Magazine's world roundup ...more

CNN Show Written, Edited, Produced by Photojournalists

"There are only a few things I am sure of in the world of journalism, but this is one of them: In 2009, journalists will be capturing more video and working alone more often. This is already happening in local TV, in the newspaper and online worlds, and as you are about to see, even CNN's photojournalists are out there producing entire shows by themselves." ...more

Watching Obama's inauguration around the world

Photo MA Student Graeme Nicol participates in a global view of the Obama inauguration, ...more
While fellow student Nick Kozak reports from Toronto ...more

Obama's People

52 full-page color portraits of the vice president-elect and the incoming president’s advisers, aides and cabinet secretaries-designate (some of whom may have been confirmed or may have withdrawn by the time you read this), along with those legislators who are likely to prove influential in helping to usher into law what the new administration sets out to do. (President-elect Obama declined to pose for a formal picture.) The portraits were taken in mid-December and earlier this month in Chicago and Washington by Nadav Kander. See an MM of it ....more

009 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

The European Publishers Award for Photography, now in its 16th year, is a major initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography.

We are delighted to announce that the 2009 European Publishers Award For Photography will be sponsored by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The company is known world-wide for its Heidelberg printing presses which are recognised as being synomous with the highest quality of offset printing.

The 2009 Jury will be held in Rome. Peliti Associati will be the Project Leader.

Open to photographers worldwide, the competition is a unique collaboration between six European Publishers – Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (United Kingdom), Edition Braus (Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain) and Peliti Associati (Italy).

The competition requires the submission of a substantial, completed and unpublished photographic book project. The winning project is then published in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in their own country and in their own language, resulting in perhaps the most extensive cultural collaboration currently existing in Europe.

The winning book will be published in autumn 2009. ...more

Early 5D MkII Adoptors Need to Update

"Firmware v1.0.7 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, released today, addresses two image quality shortcomings: the "black dots" phenomenon widely discussed on Internet forums, plus a more rare instance of vertical banding when the camera is set to sRAW1. The new firmware "improves and mitigates" these problems." ...more

Longest exposure

This is a six month exposure on a pinhole camera.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge. December 17th 2007 - June 21st 2008 (Photo: pinholephotography.org)

Europe and Asia - Dialogue of Cultures

The Photography Development Fund (Yekaterinburg) and The Museum of Photography Metenkov House invite professional photographers and amateur to take part in the International Photography Contest "Europe and Asia - Dialogue of Cultures".

The Grand Prix of the contest is 3.000 $.

The statement of the contest you can read HERE

Burn Magazine

Photo Ma graduate Pete Carney has recommended Burn Magazine as a good source of information. They also have a large fund for emerging photographers. The site is curated by David Alan Harvey. .

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Phil To Exhibit in Stockport

Photo MA Graduate Phil Melia has a new exhibition at the Stockport Art Gallery. An exhibition of memorabilia, reminiscences and photographs taken and collected by Phil Melia. This continues Stockport Art Gallery's explorations on the theme of identity, ethnicity and displacement. Contact - Stockport Art Gallery, Wellington Road South, Stockport . SK3 8AB Tel. No. 0161 474 4453 Fax. 0161 480 4960 Email. stockport.artgallery@stockport.gov.uk. Opens Jan 16.

CHIPP Calls for entries

The 5th. CHIPP Contest Calling for Entries

The Organizing Committee of the China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP)is calling for entries from photojournalists from worldwide to participate the coming 5th. CHIPP contest. The judging process will take place in late March of 2009 in Songjiang District of Shanghai.

Since 2005, China Photojournalists Society started a yearly international press photo contest which called CHIPP in China. Having held the contest for 4 years, the CHIPP contest has become a platform for photojournalists form all over the world and attracted thousands of participants. Each year, the entries from worldwide are over 20,000.

The CHIPP Organizing Committee invites 13 prestigious jury members from the photojournalistic circles in different continents to work together and judge the contest. The winning photos they picked up are highly regarded in the photo circle both in China and around the world. Among our Picture of the Year winners, you can find the name like Paula Bronstein, Brent Stirton and Marco DeLauro. Together with John Moore, Christopher Morris, Tod Hessler, Christian Als, Manish Swarup, Saurabh Das, Christian Ziegler and many other gold medalists in the past four years, the CHIPP contest has celebrate the greatness of the high-level in photojournalism and encourage photographers in the world to pave their ways in this profession.

Now, it is the time to show your works taken in 2008, a big year in journalism. We warmly welcome all of you to send your photos to us and take part in the contest. Each of our gold medalists will be awarded a cash prize of about 1500 US dollars (pre-tax) while the Picture of the Year will be awarded 10,000 US dollars. Each of the prize winners will get a certificate as well as a copy of the CHIPP year book. And the Pictures of the Year and Gold，Silver and Bronze medalist will also have a trophy with them.

Please visit our official website http://www.chipp.cn (in both Chinese and English) for detailed information and try to upload your photos via internet. You may also send an email to our mail box office@chipp.cn for registration and follow the indication to send your works. The working languages for entering the contest are Chinese and English. The deadline for the entries will be Feb. 15. Please spread this message among your photographers colleagues and friends.

New York Times Does Local MM Stories

NYT has a series of local stories told through Multi Media slide shows ...more

Magenta Extends Deadline

Deadline Extended

As has sometimes happened in previous years, so many people tried to submit at once on the day of the deadline that some of them could not get through, or experienced random errors. In order to ease the crunch and allow everyone who has been trying to submit to get their work in, the deadline has been extended to January 17, 2009. This should allow the remaining submissions to be spread over a longer time and ease the load on the server, but if you still encounter any sort of trouble, please e-mail support@magentafoundation.org and let us know...more

Santa Fe Call For Entries

2009 REVIEW SANTA FE, PROJECT COMPETITION, AND THE SINGULAR IMAGE AWARDS
Prizes include exhibition at the Photographic Center Northwest, $5,000, complimentary participation in Review Santa Fe and more! Click on the links below for further...more

40D Hacked to Record Video

The 152nd International Print Exhibition 2009

The 152nd International Print Exhibition

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Entry Form for The Society's 152nd International Print Exhibition is now available as a download.

Please click here to download and print a copy.

Deadline for Entries: Wednesday 4 February 2009

Judging: Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4 March 2009

RPS Medals and Allen & Overy Awards with a total Prize Funds of £6,500

The Entry Form will be sent to all RPS members in the Dec/Jan Journal.

To obtain further hard copies of the Entry Form, please contact RPS Reception Reception@rps.org Tel: 01225 325733.

If you have a venue to show the Exhibition of 125 prints in 20" x 24" frames, please contact:

Lesley Goode
Exhibitions Manager
lesley@rps.org
01225 325720

Grant Opportunity for Project

Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover and take advantage of tools like blogging, video-blogging, and podcasting on their own. Applications are due no later than Sunday, January 18, 2009. The five selected grantees will be announced in early February. ...more

Photo MA graduate Capture Dramatic Dog Rescue

Photo MA graduate Julie Brown captured a dramatic dog rescue as a man plunged into icy water to save his dog. See the images ...HERE

Portfolio Review Event and Seminars - Cultivate 2009; Bookings Open

Dear Image-Maker

Rhubarb-Rhubarb is pleased to announce the third Cultivate series of seminars and portfolio reviews.

Cultivate has been designed for self-taught emerging photographers, graduates or students in their final year of a specialist photography course. The aim is to bring insightful and up-to-the-minute information about the current photography industry. We've sourced some of Britain's best curators, agents, gallerists and freelance photographers to present a series of seminars and one to one portfolio sessions.

This is a two-day event run in conjunction with London College of Communication. The two events will be held at their building in Elephant and Castle, dates as follows;

Full day of seminars on Saturday 28th February 2009, 10.00 am - 4.30 pm
Portfolio Review event on Saturday 14th March 2009, 9.30 am - 3.30 pm

We're very aware that these are trying financial times for all of us. We've put together a price package that reflects this and is excellent value for money. Prices as follows;

£25.00 for one seminar session ( am or pm )
£40.00 for two seminar sessions
£70.00 for two seminars and 3 portfolio sessions

For further information and online booking, visit http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/13_cultivate.asp

Places are limited and work on a first-come, first-served basis.

We're looking forward to seeing you in London. Any queries, please get in touch.

Sean McGarry
Information Officer

PhD Studentship

Applications are invited for a 3-year full-time PhD studentship to be held at University College London in the field of Museum Studies / Museum Anthropology / Digital Heritage. The studentship is associated with a large project funded under the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s ‘Beyond Text’ programme, which is concerned with innovating ‘digital curatorship’ in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museumscape. The project considers how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reanimated in digital space alongside associated images, video clips, sounds, texts and other media. In partnership with the Department of Informatics at Sussex University, as well as the British Museum, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Glasgow Museums and collaborating institutions in Sierra Leone, a digital heritage resource will be created that utilizes social networking technologies to reconnect objects with disparate communities and foster reciprocal knowledge exchange across boundaries. Whereas the practice of ‘digital repatriation’ has become increasingly popular with museums, the reception of such initiatives by source communities has not been critically assessed. Thus, a crucial part of the project will be to employ innovative participatory methods to pilot and evaluate the digital resource in Sierra Leone. ...more