Random email of the day
Written by duckrabbitWe get some great random emails at duckrabbit. Mostly asking about our training. On that note Paul Lowe at LCC has just signed us up to teach multimedia on their excellent post grad photojournalism course. We’re chuffed about that because some of the work of students on that course is blinding. We’ve been especially impressed by Harmit Kambo (more about him on duckrabbit later) and of course Ciara Leeming is part of the duckrabbit family.
Anyway back to random emails. This one just in from Rajan Zaveri, a third year on the Newport Photojournalism course who wants me to teach him how to wave a microphone:
As a dissertation student this year I’ve been researching like mad, and I came across an article by Paul Caplan written in 1994; he believed that the introduction of the digital age would change the context of what a photograph had become. It is no longer about considering the most obvious image:
‘The photograph becomes an informational point, not a privileged text, nor a neutral record, but part of a wider matrix of powerful information’.
Given that Paul Kaplan wrote that in 1994 it makes you wonder why the UK’s ‘top photojournalism degree’ (£27000 over three years) doesn’t teach its students how to hold a microphone?
Answers by pigeon post only please …
( and yes I do know its a photography course, but does it bear any relation to the market?)
Author — duckrabbit
duckrabbit is a production company formed by radio producer/journalist Benjamin Chesterton and photographer David White. We specialize in digital storytelling.
Discussion (6 Comments)
£27000 …. Are you kidding?
Is that for foreign students? Jesus Christ..you would never pay that off as a doco tog..
Great quote.
it would be interesting to know what industries the last few years’ alumni are currently working in…if any.
(that obviously stands for every other photography course as well)
Well, iirc, one of our trainees was on the course, and he reckoned only 2 or 3 from his recent Newport course were still in photography, including himself.
How many graduate each year I wonder?
“but does it bear any relation to the market”
What market?
The documentary photography market?
Isn’t that the one round the back of Leicester bus station on a Wednesday morning?
I think Gary Lineker’s dad runs a stall.
I went to an event in Manchester over the summer (National Photography Symposium) where this issue was discussed by the likes of the head of the photojournalism MA in Bolton. I’m sure they said something like 5,000 people graduate from photography courses EACH YEAR in the UK.
err so am i, well i thought i was
sniff