by sharron | Oct 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Nick Kozak, a graduate of the MA/IMMJ predecessor course on photojournalism, has won ‘The Spirit of the Workshop Award’ at the 63rd Missouri Photo Workshop. The award “is given annually to a photographer who not only creates an exceptional body of...
by sharron | Oct 14, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Berta Tilmantaite’s award-winning video “The River Runs Back” is now playing on the Asia Society’s web site, as part of their China Green initiative.
by sharron | Oct 2, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
The River Runs Back from Berta upe Tilmantaitė on Vimeo. Graduates of the MA International Multimedia Programme did exceedingly well in a recent international multimedia competition. Run by the Dali International Photography Festival, the 2011 competition attracted...
by sharron | Sep 12, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Many graduates seize the opportunities provided by the MA program to stay on and practice their craft in China, and Robin Fall is one such case. Robin now lives in Beijing and is shooting almost exclusively for NGOs. He recently completed a calendar for the Bethel...
by sharron | Sep 12, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Markel Redondo, a graduate of the MA Photojournalism, has been having great success with a multimedia project telling the story of central American migrants making their way to the US. Entitled “In God’s Hands” you can see it here: In God’s...
by sharron | Sep 1, 2011 | Staff News and Work
Famine has been conventionally associated with Africa, and portrayed visually through stereotypes. As in recent media coverage of the crisis in East Africa, photographs of starving children with fly-blown faces, removed from their context, remain common. MA course...
by sharron | Jun 22, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Adam Dean was one of 17 well-known photographers interviewed in The Guardian’s 18 June 2011 feature on war photography. Adam spoke about his experience working in the immediate aftermath of the December 2007 bomb that assassinated Benazir Bhutto: I was very much...
by sharron | May 26, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Adam Dean – who teaches regularly on the MA/IMMJ in Beijing – has won the prestigious 2011 Sony Emerging Photographer Award for his work on a US Medevac team working in Afghanistan.
by sharron | May 26, 2011 | Graduate News and Work
Nick Kozak and Gemma Thorpe, two graduates from the MA/IMMJ predecessor course, have had their work exhibited recently. Nick’s street photography has been published on the Toronto-based Boreal collective site, while Gemma’s Transition project is showing...
by sharron | May 10, 2011 | IMMJ News
Australian futurist Ross Dawson will be hosting a short discussion at Beijing Foreign Studies University on 19 May to discuss the changing media environment in China. Ross Dawson is well known for his formulas to predict a newspaper extinction timeline around the...