PhotoVoice and D&AD Student Awards 2009
January 21, 2009
PhotoVoice has set the photography brief for 2009 asking students to ‘Tell a story through a photo-essay that changes people’s perceptions of wealth and poverty’. The awards are open to any full or part time students enrolled on recognised undergraduate, postgraduate and Higher Education courses anywhere in the world. Entry costs £15/£12 for student members. Student can enter work from 19 January until 20 March. Nominations will be announced in early June and winners will be announced at the D&AD Student Awards Ceremony on 2 July 2009 in London. Click here to learn more.
Visual Communication & Social Change
January 21, 2009
USC students interested in how documentary and participant-produced photography is used to affect social change may enroll this Spring in Visual Communication & Social Change, a popular course at USC taught by Jim Hubbard, founder of internationally renowned Shooting Back and current creative director of Venice Arts.Visual Communication & Social Change
World Press Photo at USC Annenberg
January 21, 2009
January 12-February 5, 2009, World Press Photo 2008
The World Press Photo 2008 exhibit will be displayed in the Annenberg East Lobby, Mon.–Fri. 10am-7pm, Sat. 10am-5pm. Closed Jan. 19 Closes at 1:30 pm Feb. 5, 2009. World Press Photo is part of Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative.
A Wing, a Prayer and a Cell Phone
January 19, 2009
Los Angeles, January 19, 2009 – Two momentous, newsworthy events occurred when the Airbus 320 went down in the Hudson River last week: the event itself and coverage of the event. The crash was nothing short of a miracle and, surely, anyone who has ever flown reacted emotionally to a gripping photograph of stranded passengers standing in water on the airplane’s wings or in rafts. In fact, the passengers on flight 1549 appeared to be walking on water with the help of the plane’s wings and, perhaps, a prayer.
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