LSE Exhibition Featuring two Photo MA Graduates

Photo MA graduate Mishka Henner is showing work exploring economic divisions in Hackney, produced during the summer and autumn of last year as part of an international set of commissions looking at poverty in Mumbai, Shanghai (photographed by Photo MA Graduate Sharron Lovell), Istanbul, New York, and London. The show runs between 27 April and 14 June 2009, with the opening reception on Wednesday 6th May at 8pm. A preview of Misha's work work can be seen here

I'll also be speaking about the work at a couple of events at the LSE in May (more information here
and here

David Campbell & Sharron Lovell have also been involved in this programme and David will also be a speaker at a panel discussion on the launch night (info here).

Line 4 @ Zara

Media Darwinism: Which Sites Will Survive?

Excellent post by Vanity Fair on which websites are likely to survive. ...more

The Contents of the Mexican Suitcase

All is revealed today about Capa's missing suitcase of negatives ...more

Advertisers to spend $699 million on online video ads

Advertisers are expected to spend $699 million on online video ads in 2009, but that is seen as less than expected ...more

Hereford Photography Festival

Buffet Predicts the End of Newspapers (in 1992)

"Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed." ...more

Michael Josefowicz, disagrees with "The Fallacy of the 'Print Is Dead'" ...more

and Nat Ives ponders if they are just going to move to the iPhone ...more

Rhubarb Rhubarb

Online bookings for the 2009 Review open on 12th May 2009.

Make a note in your diary and get ahead of the game by reading the reviewers profiles now - click on "Reviewers Profiles" in the left hand navigation bar.

Regards, The Rhubarb Team

Portfolio Review, Debate, Portfolio Promenade and associated exhibitions

30th, 31st July, 1st, 2nd August 2009

Aston Business School
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
United Kingdom

1 Day £215

2 Days £360

3 Days £460

Our review is not juried but we request that you attend only if you have had at least one exhibition or publication during the last three years, beyond university, and are ready for international markets.

If you are a graduate or third year student, please see the section on Cultivate, designed to prepare you for the International Review at a time when you will be ready for the rigours of the fine art photography marketplace and so gain the best value for money from the appropriate event at the relevant stage in your development. ...more

Iphone Apps for Photographers

Lots of iPhone apps center on the photos you take with your iPhone. But did you know that many others are useful when you shoot with your DSLR? From exposure calculators to GPS taggers, these apps will make the iPhone your best photo assistant ever....more

Senior Lecturer FdA/BA (Hons) Commercial Photography

The Arts Institute in Bournemouth

Salary: £33,432 pa

Closing Date: 4pm, 6 May 2009

You will help to provide a dynamic and engaging learning environment for our students, undertaking tutorial and pastoral duties as well as supervising and assessing their work. You will also help to build our reputation for quality and innovation through your own research, and play an active role in shaping the future development of the Institute. ...more

Adam Dean MM in Afghanistan

Photo MA graduate Adam Dean's Multimedia coverage of of a US Army embed in the Korengal valley, Afghanistan with a Canon 5D MKII ...more

Grace gets great review

Photo MA graduate Grace Gelder is features on a Prison Photography Blog ..more

"Grace Gelder is building a portfolio with some impressive images. She graduated with an MA from Bolton University in International Photojournalism , Documentary & Travel Photography. I am chuffed to promote her work because Bolton is one of many mid-sized cities of England’s Northwest that has been the brunt of dismissive attitudes during my childhood and adolescence.

The University of Bolton is helping reshape those ill-informed attitudes and building a reputation for its photojournalism department. This is helped by its partnership with the Dalian College of Image Art, China. Which helps to explain how Gelder came to work on her far-flung series Professional Mongolian Women. Mongolia is just next door, right?

As the Metro puts it, Gelder “counteracts misconceptions of Mongolia as an under-developed country. Her series of striking colour portraits, each depicting one woman in her professional context, follows up a UN report last year that placed Mongolia first in a league table for women’s participation in the workforce.”

I think particularly with her portrait of Munkhbayar, Director of the women’s prison just outside Ulaanbataar, Gelder succeeds in quashing stereotypes that exist regarding Non-western nations, Mongolia itself, and women in those societies. I am just glad Gelder had a prison warden as one of her subjects; as to provide me an excuse to promote her well-informed work. I recommend reading Gelder’s own description of gender relations and equalities in Mongolia."

Media Literacy 101: The Ethics of Photoshopping a Shirtless Obama

The web is buzzing about The Washingtonian magazine's choice to put a paparazzi photo of a buff and shirtless President Obama on the cover of its May issue.

Susan Moeller discusses...more

Living in the Shadows: China's Internal Migrants

Living in the Shadows: China's Internal Migrants from David Campbell on Vimeo.

This multimedia project - photographed, with audio and video, by Photo MA Graduate Sharron Lovell, and produced by David Campbell - tells the story of three families of Chinese migrant labourers in Shanghai, and the struggles they face as undocumented internal migrants.

China's massive economic growth has both created and been fueled by the world's largest peacetime migration, with 200 million people moving from the countryside to the city.

However, because of the 'hukou' or household registration system in China, internal migrants are often in a legal limbo, denied access to local social services, and discriminated against by both the state and private employers. This project reveals how three families have dealt with this situation.

For more background on the story see: david-campbell.org/multimedia/living-in-the-shadows/

Online video: time spent up 71%

“Visitors to video sites now exceeds users of Web-based e-mail, according to a report released today by The Nielsen Company…Nielsen released a report which tracks Web use in the U.S. since 2003…

• The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339 percent since 2003.
• Time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000 percent over the same period.
• In the last year alone, unique viewers of online video grew 10 percent, the number of streams grew 41 percent, the streams per user grew 27 percent and the total minutes engaged with online video grew 71 percent.” beet.tv ...more
  

Aid images, and the solution of local photographers

Some visual strategies are remarkably persistent, and few more persistent than those employed by humanitarian aid organizations when illustrating their appeals and campaign literature. But are local or indigenous the solution to these stereotypes?...more

VIEWING RESTRICTED

Two Photo MA Graduates Mishka Henner and Sharron Lovell join other photographers in "[Re]Presenting Poverty in London, Mumbai, New York, Istanbul & Shanghai"
What: Exhibit
Host: London School of Economics
Start Time: 27 April at 18:30
End Time: 14 June at 22:00
Where: Atrium Gallery, Old Building, London School of Economics

Photographic truth and Photoshop

Photographys anxiety about truth, manipulation and reality has been on show recently. In different ways and from different contexts, people have been asking: how much Photoshop is too much? ...more

Newspaper Ad Revenue Could Fall as Much as 30%

NEWSPAPER advertising, already in its worst slump since the Depression, suffered by far the sharpest drop in generations during the first quarter of 2009, down 30 percent for some papers, industry executives and analysts say. ...more

Eliminate Newspapers, Save the Planet?

Marriott, the hotel group, announced on Monday that it no longer will automatically deliver newspapers to guests.

Marriott said each newspaper represents emissions of a half pound of carbon dioxide. It said the new policy should reduce newspaper distribution by about 50,000 newspapers every day or by about 18 million newspapers every year.

That would reduce carbon emissions by 10,350 tons each year. ...more

Kindle-Izing The Magazine

There are now 25 titles listed in the Amazon Kindle catalog under magazines, including The New Yorker, Time and Newsweek, Forbes, The Nation, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, and Women's Adventure. They can be purchased by the issue or on a subscription basis that delivers each release automatically and wirelessly via the 3G Sprint cellular network that powers the Kindle 2....more

Desertification in China

Traveling on China’s ‘desertification train’ on the K117-T69-K886 route that dissects China’s major northern deserts (The Gobi, Taklamakan and Badain Jaran) from Beijing, on the east coast of China, to Kashgar, on the western borders, photojournalist Sean Gallagher reports on the various implications of desertification on people’s lives across the breadth of China....more

Earth Mosiac

Calling all photographers and Earth-lovers …

Help us record a day in the life of our planet, in pictures.

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Here’s your chance to be a part of something audaciously ambitious!

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Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing on Earth Day – 22 April 2009,

we’re asking you to take photographs of the world around you, select

your best one, send it to us, and we'll use them to make a giant mosaic...more

Lisa Ross: To Mark a Prayer: Uyghur Mazar

'To Mark a Prayer: Uyghur Mazar' contemplates the holy sites of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. Ross skillfully handles this delicate subject matter through her images, thereby granting us an intimate view of the sacred....more

McHugh talks Multi Media

2009 Worldnomads.com Travel Documentary Scholarship

Kick start your documentary career by going on assignment deep into the Mai Chau Valley with documentary producer Trent O'donnell(who filmed the Positive Footprints screened on Nat Geo Adventure Channel). Trekking with a team of 20 volunteer doctors who will be providing vital medical services to remote hill tribes, you will create your own short video documentary.

The lucky scholarship recipient will have their documentary considered for broadcast on Nat Geo Adventure! That's right - the holy grail that documentary makers work their whole lives to achieve, could be yours now!...more

LIVEBOOKS PJ

liveBooks, the leader in websites for professional photographers, with partners, the FiftyCrows Foundation and National Geographic All Roads are offering new personal website solution geared at photojournalists. It comes at a price though - $44 a month....more

Thompson exhibition opens in Beijing

Taken between 1870 and 1871 by the Scottish photographer John "China" Thomson, the images reveal with often startling intimacy a cast of characters from orphans and street gamblers, to beautiful peasant girls and their high-born ladies.

Hailed as a pioneer of photojournalism, Thomson spent two years travelling more than 5,000 miles in pursuit of the images that historians say are unique in their empathy towards their subjects....more

Who the Hell Is Enrolling in Journalism School Right Now?

Journalism schools are like foot-binding. They force you into a style that a bunch of dinosaurs all agreed was acceptable a zillion years ago. So in an age of blogging, you have no voice. In fact, if I were in J-school now, I’d have my knuckles rapped for using the rhetorical “you” in those last two sentences. ...more

AP To Go After Bloggers

In the first move to counter the downfall of printed news AP is vowing to go after bloggers who copy and paste their feeds without permission. ...more

Afghanistan: Limits of the Photographic Landscape

The visualization of the war against the Taliban has stuck closely to the conventional understanding of the conflict in Afghanistan. With few exceptions, photojournalism has focused on the military struggles of international forces as they combat an elusive enemy...[this] close-up portrayal of daily fighting necessarily overlooks the larger political issues....more

My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding

In early 2009, Photo MA students Becky Matthews and Clare Struthers traveled to an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pader, Northern Uganda, to meet and document six Acholi tribes women as they married at a seminal mass ceremony. During twenty years of civil war these women have suffered the most losing their homes and livelihoods. Often facing abduction,
abject poverty, sexual abuse, mutilation and death. Following the 2006 peace process,
relative calm has been restored to the region. The wedding of these six women is symbolic
of the new start facing all women in Uganda, as they form the foundation for stronger
communities and a stronger country....more

Can Design Save Newspapers?

Project 29

Project 29 is a personal project by Photo MA graduate Peter Carney, documenting the 365 days of his 29th and final year of his twenties. Having spent the last four years in Asia, Peter has now moved back to the UK and is at a critical point in his life. Adapting to being back in Europe, looking for work but also contemplating a move back to Asia, it is sure to be an eventful year.

Peter Carney is a freelance photograher curently based in the UK....more

Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed

freshfacedandwildeyed 09 is the second in our annual exhibition open to recent visual arts graduates. Following an online submission process, up to 25 artists will be chosen by a jury to exhibit online and at The Photographers' Gallery from 24 June - 05 July 2009.

This exhibition will represent the most dynamic new photographic work from across the UK. If you would like to apply to take part through this micro-site, see more

A new Model of Local Journalism?

Here's how it works: A journalist post his or her project on the site, with a dollar amount that is needed to set the wheels in motion. Donors then pledge small amounts by credit card towards the goal (though the cards aren't charged for until after the total needed has been reached). Projects can be initiated for as little as $450, though in-depth stories can cost thousands of dollars. Most of this money is paid to the reporter, with smaller amounts going to the editor and fact-checker. To keep donors from having undue influence on the work that gets produced, no one can support more than 20% of any individual story. ...more

Life After Newspapers

Suggestions are pouring in -- sometimes with checks attached -- that newspapers should become nonprofit foundations, or that foundations should supply investigative teams and foreign bureaus and other expensive accessories. Or that limits should be placed on the nefarious practice of "aggregation" -- Web sites lifting the news, via links, from other sites. Or that customers should be forced, somehow, to pay. ...more

Time Relaunches

Getty Images and Time Inc. are throwing the switch on LIFE.com, a new site that aims to dazzle visitors with the vast digital photo archives of both companies.

The site, targeted at consumers, is launching March 31 with 7 million professional images presented in eye-catching galleries. In development for about six months, the site is launching at a risky time for media ventures; growth in online advertising has slowed to a crawl. ...more

Kodak April Fool

Introducing KODAK eyeCamera 4.1. It's Amazing! ...more

WPN Shuts Assignments Desk

In a letter to contributors, Brian J Miller, CEO, wrote "WpN is another victim of the severe economic downturn, along with most of our clients and many of you. Our assignment revenue has dropped dramatically in the last five months and it simply does not make financial sense to continue supporting the losses we are sustaining with no improvement in sight. " ...more

Lecture Post at LCC

0.5 Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography | £40,858 - £49,257 pro rata (potential for contribution pay up to £54,896 pro rata) | London College of Communication, SE1

London College of Communication is at the forefront of photojournalism and documentary photography education internationally and is renowned for a flexible and multi-genre approach to the medium, grounded in a critical understanding of photographic and visual culture in a context of rapid technological change. Its alumni are actively engaged in redefining the boundaries of contemporary photographic practices and culture. We also have a thriving research centre focusing on photography and a photography archive.

You should have a master’s degree or a strong track record in research evidenced by significant published outputs. Your experience in teaching and coordination commitments will develop your potential for research opportunities. Self-motivated, you will have a strong knowledge of the history, theory and contemporary culture of photojournalism and documentary photography. With an understanding of contemporary photojournalistic and documentary photography practice you will be willing to face the challenges which expansion and new initiatives will pose.

In return, we offer a competitive employment package including a salary that reflects working in London; generous annual leave; a final salary pension scheme; and a commitment to your continuing personal and career development in an environment that encourages creativity, diversity and excellence. Relocation assistance is also available.

Closing date: 6 April 09

To download an application pack (CVs alone will not be accepted), please visit www.arts.ac.uk/jobs

Completed applications should be returned to: Sandra Borley at the School of Media, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, SE1 6SB. Tel: 020 7514 6806 or email s.borley@lcc.arts.ac.uk